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When the House of Representatives passed a health-care reform bill this month that included a watertight prohibition on federal funding for elective abortions, outraged American feminists wondered just how one of their own - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi - could have countenanced such a concession.

The answer many came up with lay in a brief encounter between President Barack Obama and Cardinal Sean O'Malley, the Archbishop of Boston, at the funeral of the patriarch of America's first family of Catholics, Ted Kennedy - who, incidentally, was a strident crusader for abortion rights.

Beantown's Catholic primate boasted later on his blog that he warned Mr. Obama that "the bishops of the Catholic Church are anxious to support a plan for universal health care, but we will not support a plan that will include a provision for abortion or could open the way to abortions in the future."

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