Pennsylvania Catholic Senator Bob Casey endorses Barack Obama

All of this has left many pro-life voters and, in particular, pro-life Catholic voters, beleaguered, confused and surprised, given the Illinois Senators' unrestricted support of the so called "right to abortion".

LOS ANGELES (Catholic Online) - Though as recently as March 5 he had indicated that he would not endorse a candidate for President, Senator Bob Casey, the pro-life Democratic Senator and son of deceased Pro-life hero, former Governor Bob Casey, has endorsed Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination.

He did so with glowing praise, telling those gathered: "This campaign is a chance for America, a chance for America to chart a new course, to go down a different path. A path, first of all, of change, a path of a new kind of politics, a path - and finally a path of hope and healing."

He compared the Senator from Illinois to a former candidate from Illinois, who went on to become one of our most significant Presidents, Abraham Lincoln.

"I've been impressed by so much watching this campaign. I've been impressed by his compassion, his strength, his ideas, and I think especially, especially under fire, he has appealed as ... Abraham Lincoln asked us to do many years ago to the better angels of our nature, and we appreciate that as he's campaigning."

Senator Obama indicated that he had not sought this endorsement: "I told him I'd love to have his support but I understood that you know we're behind in the Pennsylvania polls...I just want to say it would have been easy for Bob just to stay out of it, just to stay neutral. I think everybody would have accepted that. But, when he called me and said, I think this is the right thing to do, it meant as much to me as any endorsement that I've received on the campaign trail."

After the endorsement, Senator Casey spoke to reporters at length. During his responses he said : "A lot of you could you be asking, I'm sure you will, saying well I thought you were neutral and now you have decided to endorse...It is a very simple answer. I am like a lot of voters. When you approach a primary like this and you have two very strong candidates, two candidates that are your colleagues, two candidates that will be very effective in the White House and you have to make a decision and for a long, long time I was not only neutral. I was an undecided voter. And that changed recently. I became someone who made a decision in my heart as a voter to support Sen. Obama."

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His praise for the candidate continued as he noted that he could no longer "stay on the sidelines. I couldn't do that in a State that I have worked so hard in. ... I believe in this guy like I have never believed in a candidate in my life, except my father."

Another Pro-life Democrat, former Indiana Congressman Tim Roemer, who is also a practicing Catholic, has now taken a prominent role in the Obama campaign.

All of this has left many pro-life voters and, in particular, pro-life Catholic voters, beleaguered, confused and surprised, given the Illinois Senators' unrestricted support of the so called "right to abortion".

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