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To: Aquinasfan; patent; proud2bRC; Dumb_Ox
It's time to get serious about the abortion issue again. It's time for a new grass-roots push. We've got a big-time chance to forge a pro-life majority if we get our message out forcefully - and graphically. Graphic images ended Vietnam. They can help end abortion.

There is already a growing surge of support for the Pro-Life cause. Let's push the issue. If successful, this will also have the beneficial side effect of causing massive defeats for RINO and Democrat candidates.
4 posted on 11/08/2001 11:06:10 AM PST by Antoninus
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To: Antoninus
In 2000, the democrat party took 'a woman's right to choose a serial killer' as their election slogan, except they got away with leaving off 'a serial killer'(that is, after all the actual reality of the phrase if finished truthfully). We the people awake to the holocaust in our nation mustn't let them get away with that ever again, and we must hold the pubbies feet to the fire until they pass legislation banning as murder partial birth abortion and end ALL abortion that is not expressly to save a woman's life. We must also demand of the politicians that they fund adoption programs and set-aside monies to aid women unable to raise the child they carry, with mandetory sterilization for the man and woman involved when more than one 'incident' occurs against the vulnerable unborn.
18 posted on 11/08/2001 4:11:12 PM PST by MHGinTN
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To: Antoninus; Aquinasfan; patent; proud2bRC; Dumb_Ox
I keep thinking Father Pavone is being punished for not buying into the bishops very soft approach to fighting this great evil.

Here are Cunningham's comments concerning the bishops (taken from another posted article):

Cunningham is very disappointed with the efforts -- or lack thereof -- of Catholic bishops to fight abortion. "The U.S. bishops just bought an ad campaign whose operating principle is subtlety. During the Vietnam War, the working press had historically low approval ratings because people were angry that night after night the television showed the police chief of Saigon blowing out the brains of a Vietcong suspect, or naked children whose clothing was burned off by napalm running toward the camera. Those photos lodged in the public mind and gradually eroded public support for U.S. involvement in the war. The press was willing to take the hit. The protesters were willing to accept persecution. They had their eyes focused on a public policy objective and you can't win that on the cheap.

"But the bishops want to win this on the cheap," continued Cunningham. "They are laboring under the misconception that to be effective you have to be liked. They need to go back and read the prophets of the Old Testament and note the consistency with which they were persecuted and even martyred. Jesus said, 'If they persecute me, they will persecute you.' Well, they're not persecuting the bishops because the bishops have been very careful to avoid any behavior that invites persecution.

"The National Council of Catholic Bishops is releasing these insipid, 'subtle' ad campaigns that are designed to be just pro-life enough to mollify the 20 percent of the Church that is comprised of traditional orthodox Catholics, but not pro-life enough to antagonize the 20 percent of parishioners who are hard-core pro-aborts and are constantly trying to throttle and thwart pro-life activism in the Church. So the 60 percent who are in the middle on all of this are just abandoned to twist in the wind. It's the attempt to create the impression that NCCB is serious about abortion, when they're really only doing half-measured, conscience-salving stuff that is so dishonest.

The bishops also helped kill Father Pavone's billboard project. The timing on all this is very discouraging. Father Pavone is obviously very serious about stopping abortion. Some others may just want to look like they are doing something.

59 posted on 12/03/2001 8:10:21 PM PST by IM2Phat4U
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