O’Malley Struggles To Explain How He Can Be Catholic and Support Abortion

O’MALLEY: "Well, this was — this was an — an issue, of course, in my own household, growing up Catholic. And it’s one that, of course, I think every thinking person has to grapple with on a personal level, on a moral level and also on a legal level, when one is sworn to uphold the laws of our country. I am pro-choice. Having said that, I also believe that there are some issues that government is just no good at making for individuals. Among those decisions, the decisions made between women and their doctors. And so — but I do believe that all of us can make a lot of strides as a country in reducing infant mortality and eradicating childhood hunger. And that’s the common ground. And that’s the work we focus on, even as we leave to the individual conscience some of these other decisions the government is just no good at doing."