A number of readers have e-mailed in response to my piece on Coakley and religious hospitals pointing this out:

With Martha Coakley ripping Scott Brown for his conscientious objector stance and saying it equaled him suporting denying rape victims treatment, you may recall this from Ted Kennedy’s letter to the pope last summer:
“I believe in a conscience protection for Catholics in the health field and I’ll continue to advocate for it as my colleagues in the Senate and I work to develop an overall national health policy that guarantees health care for everyone.”