Head of U.S. bishops says no compromise on abortion...

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By Michael Conlon, Religion Writer Michael Conlon, Religion Writer –
Mon Nov 10, 6:46 pm ET

CHICAGO (Reuters) – The head of the U.S. Catholic bishops' group said on Monday that Barack Obama's election as president should be celebrated but he made it clear the church would not compromise its strict stand against abortion.

Obama won solid support from Catholics in last week's election, exit polls indicated, even though the church opposes the view, supported by the Illinois Democratic senator, that a woman has the right to choose whether to have an abortion. The U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 legalized abortion.

Obama's election "is a moment that touches more than our history when a country that once enshrined race slavery in its very constitutional order should come to elect an African- American to the presidency," said Cardinal Francis George of Chicago.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081110/us_nm/us_obama_bishops