{"id":7237,"date":"2004-05-24T07:13:09","date_gmt":"2004-05-24T07:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/05\/a_model_for_kerry.html"},"modified":"2004-05-24T07:13:09","modified_gmt":"2004-05-24T07:13:09","slug":"a_model_for_kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/05\/a_model_for_kerry.html","title":{"rendered":"A model for Kerry?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Take a look at Sargent Shriver, suggests this writer.<\/a><\/p>\n

The social conservatives’ concern was warranted. On Jan. 22, 1973, the Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade that states could not restrict the right of a woman to abort a fetus in the first trimester of pregnancy. To Catholics who believed that the soul is formed at conception, the idea that a fetus was not a person under the Constitution was morally repugnant. During his 1976 campaign for president, Shriver would declare that “the reasoning of the majority of the Supreme Court decision [in Roe v. Wade] was neither convincing nor even in accord with contemporary scientific information about genetic and biological beginnings of life and its developmental process.”<\/p>\n

Significantly, however, Shriver also said that although he was “strongly opposed to abortion — ethically, morally, intellectually, emotionally,” as president he would be oath-bound “to uphold the laws the land.”<\/p>\n

Shriver’s skillful balancing of faith and politics did not go unnoticed. “Sargent Shriver is a Roman Catholic candidate of an unfamiliar sort,” a reporter commented in 1972, “a man who slips quietly out to Mass many mornings of the campaign and works a little harder because of the thought that a good day’s effort can be a form of prayer.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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