When all's said and done, what evil exceeds 55 million children killed in their mother's wombs since 1973? Poverty? National security? Immigration? A poor economy? No evil is greater than abortion.

For a Catholic to vote for a candidate who supports abortion, either (a) both candidates would have to be in favor of abortion on roughly an equal scale or (b) the candidate with the superior position on abortion would have to be a supporter of objective evils of a gravity and magnitude beyond that of 1 million yearly abortions.

What evil could be so grave as to constitute a proportionate reason to support a candidate who would preserve and protect abortion and extend it? Policies on welfare, national security, the war in Iraq, Social Security or taxes, do not provide a proportionate reason to vote for a pro-abortion candidate.