The bishops' position is self evidently incorrect. A barely sentient person could readily identify circumstances when abortion or physician assisted suicide is morally permissible. That's not to say that catholic teaching lacks value; but it does lack integrity. Such far reaching moral issues as abortion and end of life are not susceptible to simple absolute prohibitions. To maintain such a position is to lie.

Perhaps the commonality between a certain president and certain catholics is that each recognizes in the other a talent for saying that which isn't true and brazenly demanding belief? We have stunningly poor leadership in the American branch of this church.