The Catholic Bishops are going all in for a GOP Victory.

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8. The RCC bishops have always wanted a reversal of Roe vs. Wade

Nothing's changed there. It's just a matter of tactics. They usually prefer to work with Catholic pro-life Democratic candidates like Bob Casey, where they know that guys like him will vote 'correctly' on both abortion and on social justice for the poor. However, they will tilt the pinball table to a Republicon, if they don't get an acceptable Democratic candidate.

I've done quite a bit of reading about this controversy for the past week, and I think the way they're selling this to the faithful is as a slippery-slope argument. If the government can tell Catholic hospitals, universities and charities that they must supply contraception to the lay people who work for them, what's to stop the government from forcing sterilizations and abortions to be done (or recommended by) those institutions?

An important middle ground in the abortion/sterilization/contraception battles has been the idea of the establishment of a conscience clause, something that says, "OK, you keep your beliefs and act on them, but don't restrict others in their rights. We'll let you live by your definition of what sex is for, and when human life begins." It's been a delicate balance, and the reich wing is sounding the alarm that makes Catholics a little nervous about what the government wants next.