"They should say farewell to their family and bring their toothbrush, and I mean it, because they are going to jail." The author of that hardball warning is -- or was until recently -- a churchgoing Roman Catholic. Like several other public figures of the faith, notably New York's Democratic Governor Mario Cuomo, federal District Judge Patrick F. Kelly, 62, believes that his personal views on abortion, which he refuses to disclose, should not affect his responsibility to enforce the law of the land. Meaning, on this issue, Roe v. Wade. The judge's determination to stop pro-life activists from closing three...
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