text: <The question was not justifying abortion but justifying voting for Democrats when they support abortion rights.>
  
  That's not the way R&R framed the question, and I don't think that's what s/he meant:
  <Cardinal Bernardin's opened the door to the proposition that abortion can somehow be justified until all social and political ills are removed.>
  
  In certain corners of the church there lives, more than twenty years after his death, a peculiar preoccupation with Cardinal Bernardin.  We see the same phenomenon with Fr. Ray Brown, who has also been gone for many years.