“Let's honor the conscience of those who disagree with abortion" said President Obama at Notre Dame.  Oh, well that's good, maybe this guy isn't so bad after all if he believes at least in respecting the consciences of pro-life health care workers.  What else does he say?

"and draft a sensible conscience clause" - but surely there is already the 2008 regulation which implements and enforces three federal laws protecting the conscience rights of health care providers, especially those at risk of being discriminated against because of their moral or religious objection to abortion. He's not suggestingignoring the federal laws surely?  Perhaps there's more.

"make sure that all of our health care policies are grounded not only in sound science, but also in clear ethics" - that would be the science that thinks an embryo can be "unfertilised" (Bill Clinton) or that embryonic stem cell research, which has so far yielded nothing but corpses, is better than adult stem cells which have already had results.  And those would be the ethics above the President's pay grade.  Is theremore?

"as well as respect for the equality of women" - I wonder what that can mean in this context.  Does he mean equal pay for equal work, or respecting the consciences of midwives?  It's all so vague.

But I suppose we better applaud anyway because the University President is clapping and many of the faculty.  Let's all join hands and sing Bind Us Together.