The following is a news release from the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts…
Fox News host Sean Hannity is blaming the strong pro-life principles of former Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel, for his loss in the Badger State’s Supreme Court race.
On April 2nd, Schimel was defeated by left-wing Circuit Judge Susan Crawford, who, as an attorney, represented Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin.
In remarks on his Fox News nightly program Hannity, on the evening of April 2nd, the host claimed that Schimel’s consistent opposition to abortion, refusing to embrace the Republican position that abortion must be allowed in cases of rape and incest, and for the life of the mother, made him unelectable in a swing state like Wisconsin.
In a Wisconsin attorney general campaign debate in 2014, Schimel said: “I believe that life begins at conception and I am pro-life.”
Unlike the apostate Hannity, Schimel is a practicing Catholic.
An ex-Catholic, neo-con, social libertarian Republican, widely misperceived as a conservative, Hannity has a long history of opposition to Catholic moral teaching on the right to life.
In March of 2007, Hannity invited Father Thomas Euteneur, President of Human Life International, on to his program, Hannity & Colmes, to berate and humiliate the priest, because Euteneuer had criticized Hannity for his public support of birth control.
In March of 2024, Hannity warned Republicans against supporting candidates who embrace “hardline” (principled) positions on abortion. He also said that he was “very happy” to see President Trump endorse human embryo destroying In Vitro Fertilization.
In 2017, Hannity, previously known as a strident opponent of the homosexual lifestyle, told The New York Times that he now takes a libertarian view of same sex “marriage.”
Among the Catholic beliefs rejected by Hannity are Augustinian just war ethics. An early supporter of George Bush’s preemptive invasion of Iraq, Hannity claimed, implausibly, that the reason no weapons of mass destruction were ever found, was because they were moved, surreptitiously, out of the country, just before the invasion.
Hannity apostatized from the Catholic Faith in 2019, citing “institutionalized corruption,” not his longstanding and wide ranging repudiation of Catholic morality.
That same year he divorced his wife of 26 years, and began a relationship with the twice divorced host of Ainsley’s Bible Study on Fox Nation, Ainsley Earhardt. Since 2016, Earhardt has been the co-host of Fox and Friends on Fox News.
They two were married in a non-Catholic ceremony in 2025.
Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment:
Sean Hannity is actually castigating Brad Schimel for his integrity, moral consistency, fidelity to principle, and conscientious dedication to the teachings of the religion which Hannity abandoned.
Hannity’s invidious comments should remind us that, Donald Trump’s historic pro-life initiatives notwithstanding, the connection between the right to life movement and the Republican Party remains an abusive relationship with an unfaithful spouse.
If polls indicate that most Americans support the continued legality of what James Michael Curley called child murder, then we might assign much of the blame to the Republican Party.
If one of the two major American political parties has spent the last five decades relentlessly promoting abortion and asserting it to be a fundamental right, while the other party has never prioritized the right to life, always finding some other issue to emphasize, then no one should be surprised by the current state of public opinion.
Hannity’s position is an old one in the Republican playbook.
For many years, the Massachusetts Republican Party operated a campaign school in the Town of Needham, for candidates in state and county elections.
Before graduating, each aspiring GOP office holder had to undergo a final interview with the long serving Republican National Committeeman from the Bay State, Ron Kaufman.
Kaufman’s injunction to graduates was simple and absolute: ‘Never, ever, talk about abortion.’
No country can become great again, grow its economy, climb out of debt, or defend itself from foreign adversaries, if, like America, it no longer has a reproductive birth rate.
The two most lethal threats to the survival of the United States are abortion and contraception.
