Posted on 10/22/2014 10:36:47 AM PDT by wagglebee
What’s a pro-abortion activist to do when her husband’s grandparents are “very Catholic” and pro-life? That’s the question one woman asked when she wrote to The Jewish Daily Forward's Seesaw advice column seeking guidance on how to convince her husband's grandparents to support abortion-on-demand.
“I am Jewish and a longtime pro-choice activist who is married to a half-Jewish, half-Catholic man,” wrote the anonymous activist. “He was raised more Jewish than Catholic, because his Catholic dad wasn’t really into the faith. His grandparents, on the other hand, are still very Catholic and therefore very anti-abortion. I have long desired to have a civil and respectful theological conversation with them, to make my case about why I believe one can live according to the bible and support a woman’s right to choose, but my husband doesn’t think I should. The reason I want to is because I really want them to understand where I am coming from, and I also believe that it is possible to change people’s minds about a cause I see as a human right.”
She signed the letter, “Fighting for Choice in Florida.”
Columnist Sarah Steltzer offered up her sympathies. “[Y]our instincts to engage with these misguided folks are understandable,” she wrote. “To you, being pro-choice likely means acknowledging that women are human and have right to control their destiny. On some level, then, knowing your grandparent-in-laws’ doctrinaire views on this issue is probably making you feel less than equal in their eyes…So I feel your pain, and I get your desire to try your powers of persuasion.”
However, Steltzer wrote, “as much as I know that intrusive right-wing laws have no place in the Uteri of America, I also know that the over-70 set is not generally an easily-swayed demographic.”
She suggested that trying to change the views of one elderly Catholic couple was not only a likely exercise in futility, but would do very little to expand access to abortion. Instead, Steltzer suggested, the letter writer should let her anger over her husband’s grandparents’ views fuel further pro-abortion activism on her part.
“You have good energy for the most righteous of causes,” Steltzer wrote.
“You stand for your sisters, but also for your own humanity and your ability to live life to the fullest, just as any man might, without your biology being destiny. Of course you’re pissed!” Steltzer continued in the Forward. “But it may be wiser to take that energy and use it to escort at a besieged clinic. Or give a donation to an abortion fund (they are so needed) or local Planned Parenthood.”
The advice columnist added that, if the writer wanted “a little perverse satisfaction,” she should make the donation “in your grandparent-in-laws' names.”
NO! It's about the equality of the 55 MILLION victims of the American Holocaust.
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Leftists used sacrifice to their children to the gods back in the day and called it necessary to protect themselves from the wrath of their gods.
Now they call it “the most righteous of causes.”
What a bunch of effing throwbacks!
She signed the letter, “Fighting for Choice to MURDER in Florida.”
There fixed the signature.
Good luck with that...
Exodus 20:13 Thou shalt not kill.[murder]
Jeremiah 1:4-5 Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Exodus 21:22-25 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her [the baby she was carrying is borne early, or miscarriaged], and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. And if any mischief [injury] follow, then thou shalt give life for life, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
B*TCH!
There is a very special place in hell for these "people."
Besides, if you try to convince these Catholic grandparents that killing babies is your idea of “righteous,” they may realize that their grandson has exhibited such abysmal judgment in selecting a spouse that he can’t be trusted with an inheritance and will be forthwith omitted from their will. Why act as though these crucial issues don’t matter when they are an attack on basic Christian values?
Another Democrat Jew for Abortion. Not like Breitbart but like Wasserman Schultz.
“Debbie Wasserman Schultz Cannot Name a Reason for Jews to Back Obama Except Abortion”
It’s about being able to fornicate and make someone else pay for any resulting consequences, with their lives if necessary.
That’s “controlling their destiny”.
A murderer controls his destiny as well.
Someone else was inconvenient or simply worthy of amusement or satisfaction. Now they’re dead. He “controlled his destiny”.
http://thefederalist.com/2014/10/22/california-orders-churches-to-fund-abortions-or-else/
“California Orders Churches To Fund Abortions—Or Else
A regulatory change in California has placed abortion in the category of ‘basic health services’ all insurance plans must cover. Even those churches buy.”
Bad news too, this will surely be on lifenews and lifesitenews soon. A bloody regulatory decision.
Stopped RIGHT there.
There is no such thing. "Catholic" is not an ethnicity. Her husband cannot he be half-Jewish, except by ethnicity, but not by religion. Nor can he or anyone one be born a Catholic. She is fundamentally confused. Ethnicity does not equate to a belief system, no matter how frequently certain beliefs may coincide with certain ethnicities.
The columnist is afraid that a respectful two way conversation will likely result in one more pro life person, if not immediately, at least some time in the future as life catches up to the young Jewish lady.
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