Ferraro and her Catholic struggle
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Geraldine Ferraro, the first female vice presidential candidate on a major party presidential ticket, died today, and we’re scanning the obituaries for evidence of her faith.
For instance, if you read Politico, you wouldn’t know that she was Catholic or struggled with religious leaders over her pro-choice stance.
The lengthy New York Times obituary (which I assume has been ready to go for a while now), makes room for that angle.
The abortion issue, magnified because she was Roman Catholic and a woman, plagued her campaign. Though she opposed the procedure personally, she said, others had the right to choose for themselves. Abortion opponents hounded her at almost every stop with an intensity seldom experienced by male politicians.
Writing in The Washington Post in September 1984, the columnist Mary McGrory quoted an unnamed Roman Catholic priest as saying, “When the nuns in the fifth grade told Geraldine she would have to die for her faith, she didn’t know it would be this way.”
- Sarah Pulliam Bailey
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Geraldine Ferraro’s Catholic side (Get Religion)
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Poor Geraldine Ferraro. She “struggled” as a Roman Catholic over her pro-choice position. Pass the Kleenex, please.
Had she ever witnessed the abomination of an abortion — saline burning, dismemberment, brains sucked out of an imploding skull — her “struggle” would have ended and she would have immediately accepted the 5th commandment and condemned Roe vs. Wade as inhumane and barbaric.
It’s so easy to favor the choice to kill the unborn when this horror is done far removed and out-of-sight. We denounce what Hitler did, yet we legalize our Holocaust, kill over 50 million and refuse to grant inviolable civil rights to the most innocent and vulnerable in our society, the unborn.
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