The US bishops last week fired their first shot across the bows of the incoming Obama administration, warning that "the unity desired by President-elect Obama and all Americans at this moment of crisis" would be impossible to achieve, if the administration's policies increase abortions.
In a statement on behalf of all US bishops at the end of their gathering in Baltimore, Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, the bishops' conference president, said the Church looked forward to working with Mr Obama on issues including immigration reform, health care and economic justice, but said that a proposed bill, the Freedom of Choice Act (Foca), which Mr Obama has expressed support for, was "an evil law that would further divide our country".
If the act was brought forward in the form it was introduced in the last Congress, they said, it would outlaw any kind of interference with abortion on demand: "It would deprive the American people in all 50 states of the freedom they now have to enact modest restraints and regulations on the abortion industry." more
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