Can you be pro-life and a feminist? What about a pro-life socialist?

The assembly will be examining what is widely referred to as the Eighth Amendment, which gives effect to Ireland’s ban on abortion.

Hint: He's a Catholic and a Socialist.

Some Catholics have turned their sights to other issues—euthanasia, death penalty—that are part of the church’s pro-life agenda.

"I have been for the Hyde Amendment,” Kaine told CNN on Friday. “And I have not changed my position on that.”

What is at stake is a significant increase in the already distressingly high number of abortions.