Last Sunday, on NBC's "Meet the press" Senator Biden was asked by an unyielding Tom Brokaw about when he thought life begins.
Tom Brokaw
If senator Obama comes to you and asks, 'When does life begin?', help me out here Joe as a Roman Catholic. What would you say?
Senator Biden then tried to dodge the apparent contradiction between his ethical beliefs and his position as legislator:
I would say look, I know when it begins for me. It is a personally and private issue. For me as a Roman Catholic, I am prepared to accept the teach[ings]in my church... But that is a matter of my judgement. For me to impose that judgement on everyone else who is equally and even more devout seems inappropriate in a pluralistic society."
Senator Biden essentially says that abortion is an individual or personal matter of judgement. In Philosophy, an individual and personal matter of judgement is the sphere of morality.
The AP then Reported today that:
Two prominent bishops said Tuesday that Joe Biden contradicted church teaching...adding, "Protection of innocent human life is not an imposition of personal religious conviction but a demand of justice,"
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