Fr Frank Pavone: Stop Electing Pro-Abortion Candidates

EWTN ^ | March 30, 2004 | Fr Frank Pavone

[Lady In Blue]

30-March-2004 -- EWTNews Feature

FR. FRANK PAVONE: STOP ELECTING PRO-ABORTION CANDIDATES You Wouldn't Even Ask -- Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life

If a candidate who supported terrorism asked for your vote, would you say, "I disagree with you on terrorism, but where do you stand on other issues?" I doubt it. In fact, if a terrorism sympathizer presented him/herself for your vote, you would immediately know that such a position disqualifies the candidate for public office -- no matter how good he or she may be on other issues. The horror of terrorism dwarfs whatever good might be found in the candidate's plan for housing, education, or health care. Regarding those plans, you wouldn't even ask.

So why do so many people say, "This candidate favors legal abortion. I disagree. But I'm voting for this person because she has good ideas about health care (or some other issue)."

Such a position makes no sense whatsoever, unless one is completely blind to the violence of abortion. That, of course, is the problem. But we need only see what abortion looks like, or read descriptions from the abortionists themselves, and the evidence is clear. (USA Today refused to sell me space for an ad that quoted abortionists describing their work because the readers would be traumatized just by the words!)

Abortion is no less violent than terrorism. Any candidate who says abortion should be kept legal disqualifies him/herself from public service. We need look no further, we need pay no attention to what that candidate says on other issues. Support for abortion is enough for us to decide not to vote for such a person.

Pope John Paul II put it this way: "Above all, the common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights -- for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture -- is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition for all other personal rights, is not defended with maximum determination" (Christifideles Laici, 1988).

False and illusory. Those are strong and clear words that call for our further reflection. "I stand for adequate and comprehensive health care." So far, so good. But as soon as you say that a procedure that tears the arms off of little babies is part of "health care," then your understanding of the term "health care" is obviously quite different from the actual meaning of the words. In short, you lose credibility. Your claim to health care is "illusory." It sounds good, but is in fact destructive, because it masks an act of violence.

"My plan for adequate housing will succeed." Fine. But what are houses for, if not for people to live in them? If you allow the killing of the children who would otherwise live in those houses, how am I supposed to get excited by your housing project? It's easy to get confused by all the arguments in an election year. But if you start by asking where candidates stand on abortion, you can eliminate a lot of other questions you needn't even ask.

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[JohnBDay]

He isn't talking just about Democratic candidates, Specter-Supporters! ;-)

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[DrewsDad]

Pope John Paul II put it this way: "Above all, the common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights -- for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture -- is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition for all other personal rights, is not defended with maximum determination" (Christifideles Laici, 1988).

Here's an answer to all those who want to declare abortion a states rights issue. Isn't it obvious that the Bill of Rights is negated when the very right to life is violated.

[vanmorrison]

OK...So why do the Bishops and Cardinals of the Catholic Church, and most of the Priests, continue to shill for the Democrat party; that is, the party of abortion, homosexuality, euthanasia, cloning, communism, gay marriage and adoption, and every other malevolent social pathology of our time? Because the American Catholic Church clerical hierarchy are certifiably nuts! And the cafeteria Catholic congregation is only a little less so!

The fact is, the American Catholic Church has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Democrat party for a very long time. And with the Church's imprimatur!

...Jesus Wept!

[Sun]

President Bush selected pro-life judicial nominees that would have been confirmed because they had around 53% of the votes. However, the fillibuster, led by Senator Schumer required a super-majority - 60% - in order to get those pro-lifers confirmed. It is imperative that we get that 60% pro-life majority in Congress and SOON!

Write letters to the editor to Catholic, Christian, Orthodox Jewish, and even secular newspapers, and let pro-lifers know how various candidates stand on the life issue.

A good website is www.wevotepro-life.com (or .org, sorry can't remember for sure).

[Lady In Blue]

Another anti-Catholic tirade! Pathetic! Not one piece of truth in it. Bishops,Priests,lay people are all individuals and vote the way they see fit. Do you have a source,date for your "facts"? Do you have one for Protestant denominations as well?

[Lady In Blue]

Thanks Sun for the info.

[vanmorrison]

First of all, I'm a Catholic! And it has disgusted me to see the most repugnant politicians of our time (Kennedy, Daschle, Pelosi, Leahy, Biden, Kerry, Davis, Granholm, et.al.) given a free pass and a platform by the liberal left of the American Catholic Church, which includes the majority of the clerical class, who are in the grip of new age intellectualism. How is it possible that all of these Democrats are allowed to use the Catholic Church as a front to legitimize their leftist agenda, which includes all of the positions I've already described. It makes me sick to see a Priest give Holy Communion to any Democrat politician who proceeds through their complicit and explicit voting support to advance the greatest social evils foisted on us all since pagan Rome. And don't give me that BS about how we're all just individuals who vote the way they see fit. There's no way to excuse ANYONE for supporting ANY position that is fundamentally anathema to the magisterium. And that includes all of the laity who have a cafeteria Catholic attitude about these matters.

It would be far better if these apostates were anathematized than to continue to allow them to pervert and destroy Holy Mother Church. Let these people, clerics and laity alike, make a decision about what matters most to them; to be "with it" to fit in with the corrupt culture of death, or to follow Christ.

Everything is not excusable or forgiveable. Regardless of what the liberal left, with their post-modern deconstructionism want to believe.

So there!

[AmericanVictory]

You dare to challenge their moral laxity in failing to go after and condemn John F. Kerry, Teddy K., and the other stalwarts of Katholics Killing Kids. John and Ted may don their white robes and come after you.

[leprechaun9]

An Abortionist is a Domestic Terrorist!

[Ravens70]

Well said!!

[virgil]

The pro-abortionists and the homosexuals would have us believe that allowing christians to vote is a violation of separation of church and state. This betrays what murdering little fascists they are.