Joel Gehrke notes that Biden claimed to support Catholic teaching on abortion but not to be willing to impose it on others. He has said this before, and other Catholics who favor legal abortion often say similar things. The logical problem here is that the Church’s teaching is not that the unborn child is a living human organism: That is, instead, a teaching of science. The Church’s teaching is that this organism has a right not to be deliberately killed and that public officials have a duty to support their right to life. On the relevant teaching, then, Biden is a dissenter.

Incidentally, Biden used to support a constitutional amendment reversing Roe v. Wade and allowing states to protect unborn life. Too bad that Joe Biden is gone.