11th Circuit's Pryor Calls Abortion 'Evil'

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Federal appeals Judge William H. Pryor Jr., whose fierce opposition to abortion prompted a two-year fight over his Senate confirmation, said Wednesday that "it'd certainly be wrong for a Catholic lawyer or judge to do something to advance a grave evil like abortion."

Pryor, who two weeks ago won a narrow Senate confirmation to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, was answering a question about how Catholic lawyers should approach Roe v. Wade. He had just delivered an address to the St. Thomas More Society, a Catholic lawyers group that invited him to speak for its luncheon meeting at the offices of Smith, Gambrell & Russell.

Pryor emphasized that as an appeals court judge he would uphold abortion laws. "The law does not empower you to stop someone else from doing evil," he said. Upholding a law "does not make you a formal cooperator with the evil act."

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[CatholicEdHead]

1. How can he have it both ways?

Most of the "activist judge" rethoric would make upholding the laws a "cooperator with the evil act".

[DanCa]

2. Is there any way that we can go back in time and invent the condom

On the night the pryor was concieved?

[fasttense]

3. He would prefer that all women go back to the old coat hanger.

So easy for men to say something a woman does is evil. Since he will never ever have to make that decision about himself it is so very easy for him to be an arm chair moralist.

[Orangepeel]

4. that sounds okay to me

I don't care if he thinks abortion is evil. His personal beliefs are his own business (just as mine are mine).

Pryor emphasized that as an appeals court judge he would uphold abortion laws. "The law does not empower you to stop someone else from doing evil," he said. Upholding a law "does not make you a formal cooperator with the evil act."

Isn't he saying that he thinks Catholic lawyers shouldn't have a problem defending other people's abortions?

[jody]

5. I'm more concerned about his membership in the Federalist Society and

his blind allegiance to their economic and political agenda.