President Bush Files for Divorce with Catholic Base (Support of Plan B Drug)

Christian News Wire ^ | 8/21/2006 | n/a

[Guenevere]

I will withhold my thoughts for now....more info.

[gcruse]

Too many people want their religion running the government, that government then running the lives of Americans.

[ElkGroveDan]

My source? Right down the street from you in Sacramento, Dan

Well I have no idea what you mean by that. I was hoping you might quote some polling figures to support your argument.

The fact is that real Catholics who care about things like abortifacents are squarely in Bush's corner, but real Catholics are seldom polled. The ones who have parted ways with Bush are the liberal Catholics who go to Mass twice a year, or not at all.

[Owen]

Don't think I quite understand this article. Are the writers expressing support for the Democrat position on this matter? If not, whose position is closer to theirs -- the President's or the Democrat's?

[NYer]

Catholic Ping - Please freepmail me if you want on/off this list

[ichabod1]

Nixon was the same way. He wasn't very conservative with the Wage & Price Controls, the Trip To China, and Vietnamization. But he was a staunch anti-communist and they hated his guts for that.

[mollynme]

Just out of curiosity, why hasn't W been condemned for not coming out against the IUD and those forms of "the pill" that prevent the implantation of the fertilized egg. What is the difference between them and "Plan B"?
I am opposed to all of them myself but wonder why the protests are only against his treating this method of abortion like the others.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

I really don't agree with SINGLE ISSUE VOTERS on either side of this debate.

[goodnesswins]

One is PRE-Conception and the other is POST-Conception???

[mockingbyrd]

Actually, no. Plan B will suppress ovulation, if it has not occurred, but will cause a miscarriage if a life has already been conceived. Which is exactly how the Pill and IUDs work as well. Usually they suppress ovulation, but they also will cause miscarriages.

This is why they are properly called abortaficiants.

[Pyro7480]

Also, for the first time since 1928, more Catholics voted Republicans than Democrats in the 2004 presidential election. When they did exit polling during that election, the biggest issue for voters were social issues. It was the "gay marriage" amendments during that election that passed overwhelmingly as well.

[Talking_Mouse]

An IUD prevents the zygote from implanting -- this is post-conception. Most forms of the pill work by stopping ovulation (pre-conception) AND stopping a zygote from implanting (post-conception).

[mollynme]

The IUD prevents the implantation of the fertilized ovum. That is post-conception. There are types of the BCP that do the same thing. My question is - why have they chosen this type of abortion to take a stand on and not the others?

[Ronaldus Magnus]

Yeah, like Catholics have been really big Bush supporters anyway.

Have you been hiding in a cave or do you just like spreading bigoted disinformation? Catholics voted 52-47 for Bush over Kerry and mass attending Catholics voted 56-43 against Kerry nationwide. If a majority of Ohio Catholic voters hadn't broke against the nominally Catholic candidate, John Kerry would have won the election.

[socialismisinsidious]

Catholics who go to Mass twice a year

aka: The Creasters (Christmas and Easter)

[Jaded]

What a snappy little headline. Mark for later.

[murphE]

President Bush Files for Divorce with Catholic Base

Not to worry, I'm sure we have grounds for an annulment. ;-D

[el_chupacabra]

Carter's appointment of that awful judge that couldn't even write a well written decision puts all our lives in danger

Which judge was that?

[Coleus]

Don't forget his family and many of the blue bloods are big in Malthusian Population Control, his father wrote the Title X bill in 1969. Once many of the Catholic Mexicans come here and assimilate into our culture, they too, will be encouraged to "prevent" and "control" births. Do you really think that it's about picking crops and votes the republicans will never get?

[marajade]

And is there a statistic that shows how many Catholic women use contraceptives against the teaching of the Church?

I would guess you all would just be amazed.