Editorial: If Economic Policy can Change, Why not Life Policy?

Catholic Online ^ | 11/25/08 | Deacon Keith Fournier

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No-one with integrity has any doubt that the child in the womb is a human person; science has confirmed what our conscience has told us all along. Few even make the argument any longer. It has all come down to the dangerous idea that the choice to terminate a life should be left up to the child’s mother, under some notion of personal liberty which allows the killing. The positive law prohibits the killing of our neighbors in every other instance except self defense. It enforces what we all know is right, whether we are religious or not, because it is revealed by the Natural Law. Why is it any different with the killing of our neighbors in the womb? Everyone agrees that we need to care for the mother before she even considers such a dreadful choice and assist with the care of the child after birth and through life. That is not the issue. The issue is whether we should sanction the killing of our youngest neighbors and use the Police Power of the State to enforce this brutal act of aggression.

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Is the new President going to stake his place in history on a counterfeit notion of freedom which says that human beings should be “free” to kill their neighbors? Let us make no mistake - that is what every procured abortion is, the taking of the life of a human child in the first home of the whole human race.

[Tax-chick]

The economic policy was a “promise anything” plan to get elected. The death policy was the reason it was important to get elected. To the extent Congress goes along, the death policy is what the administration will do.

[Jeff Chandler]

Abortion is the holy sacrament for Democrats and the catholics who vote for them.

[rbmillerjr]

The Bishops stood idly by during the campaign, allowing their flock to think they could vote for Obama in good conscience.

Over half of Catholics voted for Obama.

[Lou Budvis]

I don’t think 0bama will try to pass FOCA. He is walking away from repealing ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ which would have been a spitball fight compared to the fight over FOCA. My guess is that 0bama will settle for pro-abort judges, funding embryonic stem cell research and repealing the Mexico City policy as bones for the culture of death crowd.