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ACLU Insists Catholic Groups Should Fund Illegals' Abortions
The New American ^ | 23 April 2015 | Raven Clabough

Posted on 04/23/2015 4:15:10 PM PDT by detective

The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the federal government in an effort to force religious organizations to provide abortions and contraception to illegal immigrants. Fox News reports that the lawsuit seeks to obtain government records regarding the reproductive healthcare policies for illegal immigrant children that are currently in the care of federally funded Catholic groups. Depending on the content of those documents, the ACLU said it could take further legal action.

“We have heard reports that Catholic bishops are prohibiting Catholic charities from allowing teens in their care to access critical services like contraception and abortion — even if the teenager has been raped on her journey to the United States or in a detention facility,” said ACLU staff attorney Brigitte Amiri.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: abortion; aclu; catholics
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Will the Catholic bishops agree to fund abortions?
1 posted on 04/23/2015 4:15:10 PM PDT by detective
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Will the Catholic bishops agree to fund abortions?

Lets hope they don't ask the Republicans in Congress for their opinion.

2 posted on 04/23/2015 4:18:22 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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> access critical services like contraception and abortion

Euphemism for prenatal infanticide.


3 posted on 04/23/2015 4:18:50 PM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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It’s insane that even the ACLU would remotely think that Catholic charities should have to fund abortion. It’s just insane.


4 posted on 04/23/2015 4:22:32 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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Apparently, the “civil liberties” the ACLU defends does not include the First Amendment free exercise of religion. But I already knew that.


5 posted on 04/23/2015 4:25:23 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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Given recent decisions from the SCOTUS I don't think this will fly long term.
6 posted on 04/23/2015 4:26:06 PM PDT by NRx (An unrepentant champion of the old order and determined foe of damnable Whiggery in all its forms.)
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The biggest ones already do, don’t they? Catholic Charities, anyone?


7 posted on 04/23/2015 4:29:59 PM PDT by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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No - it isn’t that they THINK they should - it is that they will be FORCED to.


8 posted on 04/23/2015 4:30:01 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: mrsmel

In a way they brought this on themselves by backing sanctuary cities and amnesty and opposing enforcement.


9 posted on 04/23/2015 4:36:25 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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If the ACLU is so dang worried about them why don’t they pay for their abortions? I’m sure that liberals will contribute to a fund, right?


10 posted on 04/23/2015 4:37:35 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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The real question is how do we get rid of the ACLU?

That should be a goal...


11 posted on 04/23/2015 4:46:31 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Conservatism: Now home to liars too. And we'll support them. Yea... GOPe)
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If the ALCU feel so strongly about it, why don’t they fund it?

Or is it really all about using lawyers to destroy Christians?


12 posted on 04/23/2015 4:49:33 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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It’s not as insane as you might think. Many of these “charities” aren’t even religious organizations, regardless of their names.


13 posted on 04/23/2015 4:49:54 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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They’re just being deliberately venal, over-the-line vileness intended to set the tone for the fight to come. O’Bunghole’s last two years are going to be a fringe-lib-lunatic hey-day, with reprobate scumbags crawling out of the woodwork to inflict their evil while this unholy administration still holds sway.


14 posted on 04/23/2015 4:51:13 PM PDT by Gargantua ("...fee tine a maadyy..." ;^)
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Notice they never go after Moslem organizations?


15 posted on 04/23/2015 4:59:23 PM PDT by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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No, but it riles me they help illegals in every other way.


16 posted on 04/23/2015 5:02:33 PM PDT by Bibman (Tea Party since 1976. Throw ALL the bums out!)
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It’s insane that Catholic charities would remotely give a sh*t what the ACLU thinks.


17 posted on 04/23/2015 5:21:49 PM PDT by Walrus (I love the America that used to be ---I hate the America that now IS!)
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Why don’t the aCLU fund them. They probably got them knocked up in the first place.


18 posted on 04/23/2015 5:23:34 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Just Say NO To Hillary.)
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It’s insane that even the ACLU would remotely think that Catholic charities should have to fund abortion. It’s just insane.

In military parlance: the enemy is merely testing the "perimeter wire" in an effort to find a weak point of entry...

19 posted on 04/23/2015 6:47:54 PM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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Insanity——that we even have these “discussions”.

Pretending we are NOT killing human beings with abortion is INSANE-—it is IRRATIONAL-—and IRRATIONAL LAW is UNJUST LAW.

Science proves that babies are human beings inside the womb-—there is no doubt that they are individuals who have Natural Rights to Life FROM GOD—NOT THE STATE OR MOM.

We know that sex is either male or female (two sexes is the ONLY norm—all others throw out Truth and Science and Natural Law which is the basis of our “Justice” (virtue) System)-—and the two sexes are NOT interchangeable....yet we “PRETEND” that they are which is INSANE AND IRRATIONAL (It is actually Marxist Theory to destroy individual identity and uniqueness in people, so they can herd and kill people when the State deems necessary.)

Children/babies are allowed to be bought and sold and bred and have their Reality warped by evil people-—denying them their UNALIENABLE NATURAL RIGHT to have a biological mother and father who created them in Love.

It is EVIL and UNJUST LAW to promote using human beings as a Means to an End (all homosexual “unions”)—can’t do that under the US Constitution, but we have IDIOTS who have thrown out Reason and Natural Law (Science and Christian Ethics) for Stalin’s Laws, and promoting insanity and evil to little children, and they can NOT do that in a Just System.

When you put evil, irrational ideas into small children (like Heather has two mommies), they grow up to be irrational evil children usually.

Unjust Laws are “null and void” (Justice John Marshall). We need to put the Constitution BACK and use it.

Just Laws ONLY promote “public virtue” (Reasoned/Natural Laws/Science and God’s Laws). Montesquieu.


20 posted on 04/23/2015 6:50:13 PM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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