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POOR John Kerry. He is trying to be a modern politician while retaining his spiritual sensitivities, and he is suffering for it.

Last month Kerry, who is a committed Catholic, voted against a bill that makes it a crime to harm a fetus during an assault on a pregnant woman. The Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which President Bush signed into law this month, designates a fetus as a human being from the moment of conception and makes killing one a murder separate from the murder of a pregnant woman, except in certain medical procedures.

Kerry objected on the grounds…

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