Posted on 12/15/2008 8:41:07 AM PST by Publius804
Change is Coming to the Nation's Abortion Laws
by Deal W. Hudson
12/15/08
Go to Change.gov, the Web site of President-elect Barack Obama, and you'll find a document titled "Advancing Reproductive Rights and Health in a New Administration." Signed by dozens of pro-abortion groups, including Catholics for Choice, this 55-page document provides an overview of the marching orders for the Obama administration in removing all present restrictions on abortions while dramatically increasing abortion funding. Anyone who has bought into the myth that Obama is "moderating" his positions should notice that the first section is titled "Steps for the First Hundred Days." The groups that have spent millions supporting pro-abortion members of Congress, including Obama and Vice-President elect Joe Biden, aren't in the mood to wait.
Many of the recommendations are about who gets government support. The pro-abortion groups not only want more money -- nearly $3 billion -- but they also want the government to stop funding groups who do not share their ideology.
For example, notice the following four recommendations out of the many contained in the document:
· Provide $1 Billion for International Family Planning Programs · Restore Funding to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) · Increase Funding for Title X Family Planning Program to $700 million · De-fund Abstinence-Only Programs
Taken together, the proposed policies would accomplish three things: 1) treat abortion as a health care right, 2) provide funding for abortions by insurance carriers or the government, and 3) put judges and political appointees in place who will protect abortion and government funding from future challenges.
(Excerpt) Read more at insidecatholic.com ...
“Catholics for Choice”. Don’t tell me, let me guess. They’re “womyn” priests.
Yeah it’s the same loony camp what hates the Church but claims to be Catholic - aging, bitter and increasingly irrelevant.
As much as one may be tempted to think that the left is killing their own their is no good that come to a nation that would promote this type of unchecked, wholesale slaughter.
This is the worst fallout as a resullt of BO getting in office, why I voted for McCain. Let’s hope Blago sings.
Advancing Reproductive Rights and Health in a New Administration..
Translation
Advancing killing babies in a new administration
This is the worst fallout as a resullt of BO getting in office, why I voted for McCain. Let’s hope Blago sings.
He has no reason to sing. The investigator stopped everything before it got to that point. Blago’s will stay in office and win re-election.
You’re right. What with all the economic news globally, I fully believe a divine chastisement is on its way.
If this isn’t just the birth pangs of Our Lord’s return, then this nation may well have immorality scared and starved out of it.
Unfortunately, abortion has become so common place that it is not only the left that is killing their babies.
I’m not Catholic, but from what I understand of it, it’s impossible to be Catholic and not follow what the church teaches. A person is either Catholic, meaning they follow the precepts of the Catholic Church, or they are something else not Catholic. Dissent is permissible, but one must follow the rules whether one agrees with them or not. In other words, pro-murder (aka abortion) “Catholics” cannot aid or abet abortion in any way, or they are not Catholic. They can discuss their opinions with church hierarchy but have no authority to act by themselves to change doctrine. Is that a fair assessment of proper dissent within the church?
I only hope and pray when the end times come it’s known some of us never wanted this.
While I think any abortion is a tragedy for all concerned, sometimes having the child is also a tragedy. In counseling work, I have known too many people who were the victims of unwanted pregnancy. Some of them are now dead as they could not bear the pain of their childhoods. Item: Mother tried to drown her 6 year old son in toilet because he would no longer fondle her privates while she was bathing. Item: girl was repeatedly raped by father and brothers, starting at age 1 1/2 and continuing to late adolescence. Item: Young woman born with spina bifida wishes she had never been born. Wears an external urine bag through hole in her stomach. Woman whose child had Tay Sacks (sp?) disease suffered 4 years before dying in her arms. She will never have a child again without doing a genetic test prenatally.
The unfortunate thing is that the anti abortion forces are almost always against any type of contraception, child spacing (which is healthier for both mother and child) and emergency contraception. The idea that people should suffer because they have sex is immoral. Especially among the very poor, sex may be one of the few pleasures they have in their miserable lives. They should not be forced to bear children who will also be poor, miserable, and frequently die of disease and malnutrition. This is one reason for restoring the availability of contraception to our health aid programs. Abstinence is not likely among many people who are poor and married.
Yes it is. Unfortuantely the church isn’t loud enough IMHO about this evil and those who support it. I’ve always felt that there are some things even G-d wouldn’t forgive you for and that those who support and condone this should know about the mark on their soul. I would not want to be any of them on judgement day.
So by Church law everyone responsible for an abortion --- the woman, the so-called doctor, the boyfriend who gave her the money or drove her to the abortion site, politicians who voted for funding and thus intentionally enabled abortions --- they're all instantly excommunicated.
However.
Most Catholics are unaware of the automatic excommunication; I have never, ever heard it preached upon and have rarely seen an article about it in a Catholic publication. Thus people with this grave offnse on their souls come up for Communion and nobody says them nay; morever, even the most public, manifest, un-your-face unrepentant accomplices --- the pro-abort politicians --- are excluded from Communion only on rare occasions. So rarely that it makes headlines.
This has been the problem in the Catholic Church for the past 40 years: wonderful doctrines, terrible discipline. It's so ironic, because the Church still has the reputation of being so darn 'judgmental' and 'authoritarian' and so on, when the reality has long been the complete opposite: the corruption of having laws that everybody, from the High and Mighty Reverends on down, fail shamefully to enforce.
It's getting a bit better now. American Archbishop Raymond Burke was just appointed Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura (that's the Catholic equivalent of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court) and he a firm, just, and serious man who, as Archbishop of St. Louis, four years ago had told Kerry he wasn't to receive Communion in his diocese.
Burke can only lead by argument and example. There's no enforcement on the slacker bishops if they just keep cowardly silence, so long as they refrain from open dissent. But a subset American bishops seem to be following Burke's lead. For which I give thanks.
Pray for us.
Most days I just wonder how much “right” is still out there. Seems like the proverbial lemmings are gearing up for a run at the cliff.
Your #4: I believe that God is no longer protecting the United States. We will suffer along with everyone else. What a bunch of losers we are.
There is NO reason for killing babies no matter what their circumstance, situation, or health. Sin is ALWAYS with us, too, until the Lord returns. Sin causes death to even the guiltless and innocent.
We mourn and grieve for those who suffer because of their circumstance, and it is our role to love them and accept them and encourage them to feel like their life is significant. The best way to do that is to show them Christ-like and God-like love.
I can only agree. We are now seeing God’s judgement on America. Began with weather (hurricanes, tornadoes, fires, bad storms, etc.) and will now go to economics, attacks on our soil, illnesses...maybe THEN America will wake up.
We’ll be the ones who don’t take the mark of the Beast. Of course it may kill us but that’s also a sign of the times.
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