,,, and here's the guy to stop them!!! [sarcasm, in case you didn't pick it].
Posted on 07/04/2004 3:21:55 PM PDT by Lorianne
Despite clear Catholic teaching to the contrary, U.S. abortion advocates in Latin America have distributed a prayer card asking the Virgin Mary to intercede to establish abortion on demand throughout the region.
Many participants at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean meeting in Puerto Rico were stunned Monday when they received a prayer card with the words, "The love of God and of Mary of Guadalupe is greater. ... For women's lives, safe and legal abortion," reports the Catholic Family & Human Rights
The words are superimposed over an image of the Virgin Mary. The back of the card says, "Dear Mary of Guadalupe, we thank you because your love is greater, because you listen to us without judging, because you know our heart and you respect the intimacy of our decisions."
The cards were distributed by the American group Catholics for a Free Choice and its Latin American counterpart, Catolicas por el Derecho a Decidir.
One observer told the Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute, "How insulting it is that CFFC, a rich American pro-abortion group, would attempt to use the Latin American people's strong devotion to the Virgin Mary to impose their abortion agenda here."
At a press conference, CFFC released polling data that purports to show Latin American Catholics overwhelmingly accept a broad reproductive rights agenda.
According to the CFFC press release, "Before Catholics were more afraid of what the bishops and the church were saying -- now they are deciding for themselves. What we see is a more mature society and a more democratic one in which the most important guide is the individual conscience, not the institution of the church. What we also see is how isolated the bishops are from society and from faithful Catholics."
Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute, however, points out the very polling data seems to tell a different story.
For instance, the report admits, "Catholics are divided on the question of whether one can have an abortion or support someone who does and continue to be a 'good Catholic.'"
CFFC claims "a majority of Catholics in all three countries [Bolivia, Colombia and Mexico] believe abortion should be permitted in some or all cases."
But the report also states, "Only a small number of Catholics in the three countries say that public health entities should be required to provide abortions to those who ask for them."
The data also show the overwhelming majority of respondents, in some cases more than 90 percent, do not believe abortion is justified "when the woman chooses," "because of a lack of economic resources," "when a contraceptive method has failed," or "when a woman does not feel capable of taking care of a child at that moment."
The Abortionists are exporting genocide to South America.
That's odd. If the feminists had been aroun 2,000 years ago, they would have tried to get Mary to have an abortion, because she was about to be an unwed mother. Of course if that had happened, no one would be praying to Mary.
Would it be wrong for me to pray to Mary that the smiting beginneth soon?
,,, and here's the guy to stop them!!! [sarcasm, in case you didn't pick it].
Thanks for posting.
As a practicing Catholic, I have to say that this outrages me beyond description. I am so offended by CFFC that I cannot describe it.
It's a very good thing that I have no power, other than my voice, because in this case, I would be very tempted to exercise it.
Now, I've heard it all!!!
ping
that's sick
Words fail me. Now Im convinced Im living in a parrallel universe.
Aside from the pap posted here, How the hell are you??
Well, I'm spectacular, despite being in the middle of winter. We lit the fire on Saturday evening and we're playing more scrabble with the kids than usual. Overall we've avoided colds, flu, coughs etc. and are in good order - and you?
Ping for laugh or cry idiocy.
They're praying to the Blessed Virgin for abortion rights? What on earth are they smoking?
My bet is that much of this campaign is funded by some foundation controlled by the Widow Heinz, Flipper John's current wealthy wife. Will someone ever ask Terry Kerry how many abortions she has had?
OMG.... I've done alot of sinning in my life but I can't imagine asking God for the right to butcher a baby...Lord have mercy on the souls of those lost women.
Askimg Holy Mary, Mother of God,
to help faciltate womb murder.
OMG. JMJ.
I have now heard it all.
You know, as I read this, it strikes me that God really doesn't use the lightning-bolt ZOT as often as He justly could.
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