"Professional protestors"

From Time's "Church Politics: Why the Pope Is Side-Stepping Notre Dame":

"It is clear that Notre Dame didn't understand what it means to be Catholic when they issued this invitation," said Cardinal Francis George, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). The conservative Cardinal Newman Society organized a petition calling for Notre Dame president Father John Jenkins to disinvite the President. Professional protesters such as Alan Keyes and Randall Terry have descended on the South Bend campus, pushing blood-covered baby dolls in Spongebob strollers and getting themselves arrested. And Cardinal James Francis Stafford, one of the highest-ranking Americans at the Vatican, has declared Obama an unfit honoree because his statements on abortion reflect "an agenda and vision that are aggressive, disruptive and apocalyptic."

Obama on abortion:

"I think that most Americans realize that this is a profoundly difficult issue for the women and families who make these decisions. They don't make them casually. I trust women to make these decisions in conjunction with their doctors and their families and their clergy, and I think that's where most Americans are. Now, when you describe a specific procedure that accounts for less than one percent of abortions that take place, then, naturally, people get concerned, and I think legitimately so... There's a broader issue, though. That is, can we move past some of the debates around things about which we disagree, and can we start talking about things we do agree on? Reducing teen pregnancy, making it less likely for women to find themselves in the situation where they've got to anguish over these decisions. Those are areas where I think we can all start mobilizing and move forward rather than look backward."

Now, remind me, who's the one who's got a point? The bloody-doll-pushing, apocalypse predictors, or the guy who wants to mobilize to reduce teen pregnancy and other issues that cause women to have to choose? I mean, the good thing for pro-choicers like me is that the pro-lifers seem to be making our job pret-ty easy.