Girl on the Right brings the heat on hypocritical Catholics today:

Do yourselves (ourselves) a favor and please shut up. Shut up, for the love of Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the wee little donkey too.

This contrived outrage over President Obama’s forthcoming commencement address at Notre Dame University is distracting and very, very embarrassing. First of all, you (we) voted overwhelmingly in favor of President Babykiller (54 to 45% Obama over McCain among Catholics), so you have no room to argue over his policies around the unborn. He never made any secret of his belief in abortion (”If Malia or Sasha were to become pregnant, I wouldn’t want them punished with a baby.”), and unless you’ve been living under a rock since the Ascension, the pro-abortion policies of the Democrats shouldn’t be news to you.

Then there’s the fact that you are screwing up a class’s commencement ceremony with your airplane banners and billboard trucks with that oh-so-tired imagery of chopped up baby bits. The President of the United States - whoever he may be - has always done at least one graduation ceremony at a prominent school since time immemorial. And the kids that graduate that day can look back for decades on the day the president spoke at their event. What will these Notre Dame kids have to look back on, other than a bunch of screeching harpies with picket signs?

Well, this is really not any more hypocritical than Republicans today blaming Obama's economic policies for a "road to socialism," when their previous Administrations helped to increase both spending and debt. But fair enough: she is at least touching on a dogmatic aspect of Catholicism and Conservatism that is pretty annoying and often times irrational. Half-Sigma spells it out in clear context:

Unfortunately, “pro-life” seems to have no relation to any other traditional family values. Just the opposite, it seems to give single mothers a justification for being single mothers. It would be far better if opposition to single motherhood were rising instead of opposition to abortion.

"Pro-life" is simply a remnant of humanism: every sperm is sacred. Interestingly, this hasn't led us to more traditional values, just more bureaucratic filibustering. In fact, it was one of the key issues splitting up the GOP. If we're going to be pro-life, as Frank insightfully points out, let's at least support it in the context of a functioning family model. Don't blame abortion as a principle, blame the morons and their slutty lifestyle for spreading STDs and handing over self-destructive kids to welfare programs.