Used and Discarded...But What Else Did You Expect

By now, some of you have heard that Doug Kmiec has submitted his resignation as US Ambassador to Malta. Mr. Kmiec was one of the biggest Catholic supports of Obama in the last election. It was due to him that many liberal "catholycs" voiced their support for Obama and encouraged other Catholics to vote for him.

It seems that he too was now thrown under the bus, as his usefulness had ended.

You know, this reminds me of the movies in which a follower of Satan has failed or outlived his/her usefulness, is then gotten rid of.

Sad, so sad but a lesson learned.

You can read Tom Peter's review of this situation..it is insightful.

Abortion Study by Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good found to be Faulty

Here are excepts from the news article posted by CNS

Until recently, a Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good study of abortion data claimed that increased spending on welfare programs results in substantial reductions in state abortion rates but many pro-life laws do not. However, the study’s results have been revised following the discovery that incorrect abortion data was used and after criticism from a professor that the group’s conclusions did not follow from the data.

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The old version of the report was removed from the site in November 2008 after critics pointed out problems with the study.

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The feedback of Michael J. New, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Alabama, was acknowledged in the new version of the report. Writing at the web site MoralAccountability.com, New said that the authors of the study discovered that they had used incorrect abortion data for the years following 1997.

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“The new version provides evidence that welfare policy has no more than a marginal effect on the incidence of abortion,” he argued. “In fact, the new regression results indicate that none of the three welfare policies which the authors previously argued were effective tools for reducing the incidence of abortion have a substantial abortion reducing effect.”

In an essay at MoralAccountability.com, New accused Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good of misleading the public and referred to “plenty of peer reviewed studies” which find that public funding restrictions and parental involvement laws reduce the incident of abortion.

He claimed the study had a “substantial impact” on the pro-life debate in the 2008 Presidential election and gave “intellectual legitimacy” to those such as Doug Kmiec and Nicholas Cafardi who argued that pro-life voters should vote for Democrats to advance the pro-life cause.

So, now we have it. I wonder if any will admit that they were wrong. Probably not.

Why does Doug Kmiec do what he does?

The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) as it currently stands is ineffective and in many instances, supports organizations which do not necessarily support Catholic teaching. It must be shut down and reorganized. Please boycott the CCHD. Read more here.

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Why does Doug Kmiec do what what he does? I wondered about that for a long time.

Matt Abbott believes he has the answer.