Spinning a pro-life case for Obama must be exhausting. Kmiec’s latest approach is to deny that the Freedom of Choice Act, which Obama supports, means what its words indicate, what its legislative sponsors say it means, and what pro-abortion lobbying groups say it means. Contrary to Kmiec’s assertions, it would sweep away existing state regulations of the abortion right and require that all levels of government fund abortion. Kmiec also claims, falsely, that Obama wants to tighten the “health exception” so that late-term abortions could effectively be regulated. He has never expressed the slightest interest in narrowing the scope of the abortion right protected by the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence.

I feel that I have already paid too much attention this year to this silly and confused man, but I gather that Beliefnet is a well-read site, and it keeps publishing Kmiec’s claims without bothering to check them for accuracy.