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From The Washington Post ...
Catholic bishops spent big on Kansas abortion vote — and maybe lost bigger
[...] Analysts were quick to frame the result [of the Kansas abortion vote] as a setback for the antiabortion movement, but activists and experts say it also amounts to a rejection of the Catholic Church hierarchy, which had shelled out massive sums of money in support of the amendment’s passage. The vote may hint, too, at a mounting backlash against the church’s involvement in the nation’s abortion debate — not least among Catholics themselves.
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According to financial disclosures and media reports, the Kansas City Archdiocese spent roughly $2.45 million on the effort this year, with the Catholic dioceses of Wichita and Salina together spending an additional $600,000 or more. Some individual Catholic parishes across the state chipped in, as did the Kansas Catholic Conference, an advocacy group tied to the state’s bishops, which reportedly spent $100,000. Separately, the conservative advocacy group CatholicVote raised around $500,000 for the pro-amendment Do Right PAC, according to the news outlet Flatland.
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The church officially decries abortion, but U.S. Catholics, generally supportive of legal abortion, have grown more liberal on the issue over time: According to a recent PRRI poll, the percentage of White Catholics who believe that abortion should be legal in all or most cases jumped from 53 percent in October 2010 to 64 percent by June of this year. The shift among Hispanic Catholics was even more dramatic, from 51 percent in 2010 to 75 percent in June ....
There's a post too at America Magazine about the Kansas vote ...
It was at the top of the magazine right after the vote, but now it seems to have disappeared, but you can find it here ... Abortion win in Kansas was a wake-up call for the pro-life movement.
The article was pretty disingenuous and what one would expect from pro-life professro Charles C. Camosy, but what was surprising even to me was the tone of the comments from readers. There were 115 and counting today when I looked, and almost all of them are pro-choice, and many are angry at the church's stance on abortion. Check them out.
Catholic bishops spent big on Kansas abortion vote — and maybe lost bigger
[...] Analysts were quick to frame the result [of the Kansas abortion vote] as a setback for the antiabortion movement, but activists and experts say it also amounts to a rejection of the Catholic Church hierarchy, which had shelled out massive sums of money in support of the amendment’s passage. The vote may hint, too, at a mounting backlash against the church’s involvement in the nation’s abortion debate — not least among Catholics themselves.
[...]
According to financial disclosures and media reports, the Kansas City Archdiocese spent roughly $2.45 million on the effort this year, with the Catholic dioceses of Wichita and Salina together spending an additional $600,000 or more. Some individual Catholic parishes across the state chipped in, as did the Kansas Catholic Conference, an advocacy group tied to the state’s bishops, which reportedly spent $100,000. Separately, the conservative advocacy group CatholicVote raised around $500,000 for the pro-amendment Do Right PAC, according to the news outlet Flatland.
[...]
The church officially decries abortion, but U.S. Catholics, generally supportive of legal abortion, have grown more liberal on the issue over time: According to a recent PRRI poll, the percentage of White Catholics who believe that abortion should be legal in all or most cases jumped from 53 percent in October 2010 to 64 percent by June of this year. The shift among Hispanic Catholics was even more dramatic, from 51 percent in 2010 to 75 percent in June ....
There's a post too at America Magazine about the Kansas vote ...
The article was pretty disingenuous and what one would expect from pro-life professro Charles C. Camosy, but what was surprising even to me was the tone of the comments from readers. There were 115 and counting today when I looked, and almost all of them are pro-choice, and many are angry at the church's stance on abortion. Check them out.
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