Salon.com > Roxana Badin http://www.salon.com Tue, 21 May 2013 01:30:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Ryan has more in common with Akin than you think http://www.salon.com/2012/10/30/ryan_has_more_in_common_with_akin_than_you_think/ http://www.salon.com/2012/10/30/ryan_has_more_in_common_with_akin_than_you_think/#comments Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:06:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13057945 Los Angeles Review of Books WHEN DURING THE VICE-PRESIDENTIAL debate Martha Raddatz asked Paul Ryan what role his religion has played in his own personal views on abortion, Ryan was quick to explain not only the central role of religion in his life, but his family’s and his political party’s:

I don't see how a person can separate their public life from their private life or from their faith. Our faith informs us in everything we do. My faith informs me about how to take care of the vulnerable, of how to make sure that people have a chance in life. […] Now, you want to ask basically why I'm pro-life? It's not simply because of my Catholic faith. That's a factor, of course. But it's also because of reason and science […] I believe that life begins at conception.

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