New Bush judge calls abortion EVIL

[Bluebear]

but says he will "follow the law". Thanks, US Senate! :eyes:

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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."

Pryor's announced topic at the meeting was "The Duty of a Catholic Lawyer or Judge to Avoid Evil." But when he reached the podium, he said he had chosen a different topic, and he drew laughs when he said that one of the benefits of life tenure is the freedom to change his mind. But Pryor did talk about evil, using as an example Hugo Black, the Alabama lawyer and U.S. senator who was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1937 by President Roosevelt. Though Black allied himself with the liberal wing of the court, he always carried the baggage of having at one time been a member of the Ku Klux Klan, a group he later disavowed.

http://biz.yahoo.com/law/050624/c18f0b1f93979450d1be5aed690c14e7.html?.v=1

[MichiganVote]

1. Might be immoral, might be "wrong" but its legal sucker

[whistle]

2. That's all he needed was a national forum

:wtf: