This just in from Steve Hayward:

Shriver’s pro-life position is extremely important, because he was the last pro-life Catholic on a Democratic ticket (with McGovern in 1972). True, this was before Roe, but it is amazing that today such a person could not only NOT be nominated as a Dem running mate, but can’t even speak at their convention. (Recall, too, that Shriver was McGovern’s second pro-life running mate, since Eagleton was also a strong pro-lifer. It gives the lie, a little bit, that McGovern was the candidate of “acid, amnesty, and abortion.” The first two were right, but not the last one.) As late as 1984, there were a handful of pro-life delegates at the Democratic convention (I went as a reporter) who cast their nominating ballots for Eagleton as a protest against the feminist drift of the party. I am sure this tiny remnant is long extinct today.