The first strong evidence that President Obama is not really pro-choice, a position that usually invokes the idea that people should be able to act according to their own consciences when it comes to abortion, but pro-abortion, comes in a recent proposal to have the Department of Health and Human Services remove the ability of health care workers to refuse to perform such life ending procedures. This YouTube statement by Francis Cardinal George, President of the US Conference of Catholic bishops, is an impassioned plea relating the right of conscientious objection to the basic principles that this country was built on. He calls the President’s decision on this issue the “first step toward despotism.” It is notable that Cardinal George is Bishop of the Diocese of Chicago–Obama territory.