Clinton loses pro-abortion leader's endorsement to Obama

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=11847 ^ | Feb 20,2008 | CNS

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Washington DC, Feb 20, 2008 / 07:16 pm (CNA).- Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama has been endorsed by Frances Kissling, the former president of the pro-abortion group Catholics for a Free Choice.

In an article written for the Huffington Post, Kissling defended her endorsement of Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton saying that his presidency would finish the “social transformation” begun by the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide.

"While I believe in the nitty gritty of a day-to-day legislative agenda, there will be little difference between Clinton and Obama, I am convinced that in the larger struggle to complete the social transformation promised by Roe, Obama's instincts and values will bring us closer to that transformation," Kissling said.

Kissling broke ranks with other feminists who favor abortion rights but have endorsed New York Senator Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination. She said that both candidates would appoint Supreme Court justices who favor Roe v. Wade, overturn the Mexico City policy that forbids funding for non-governmental organizations that also perform abortions, and restore funding to the United Nations Population Fund, which lost US funding after its co-operation with coerced abortions in China was exposed.

Kissling said that Clinton had “more than once failed the movement” for abortion rights, such as when Senator Clinton did not include abortion coverage in her 1994 health care reform plan. She also disliked Clinton’s support for laws permitting objecting health professionals to refuse to provide services they consider immoral. Kissling wanted to know whether her present universal health care program “will give religious organizations the right to refuse to provide services they consider 'immoral' - emergency contraception, voluntary sterilization, condoms to prevent HIV, and assisted reproduction come to mind.”

Senator Obama, Kissling thought, would transform American culture and solidify support for legalized abortion.

"It is no longer about 'winning, the culture war. It is about completing the social transformation that Roe began but did not solidify," Kissling concluded. "That task, I believe, will best be accomplished by a president who sees her or his role as calling us to greatness ... I think Barack Obama is the person who can do that," she said.

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"It is no longer about 'winning, the culture war. It is about completing the social transformation that Roe began but did not solidify," Kissling concluded. "That task, I believe, will best be accomplished by a president who sees her or his role as calling us to greatness ... I think Barack Obama is the person who can do that," she said.

This man (Obama) is of an evil nature that is beyond anything we have ever seen.

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the Kissling of Death, I’d say.

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This man (Obama) is of an evil nature that is beyond anything we have ever seen.

I think this bozo's greatest danger is that he seems to be putting himself at the disposal of the wicked -- a soul sold, as it were. Yeah, give a pawned soul power and a lot of people will suffer.

He's such an icon now, and tragedy that befalls his campaign will be called racism, and race relations won't be the same again. As a "black" man, he can do no wrong.

A one man civil war.

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pro-abortion group Catholics for a Free Choice.

These people have the audacity to call themselves Catholic!

In reality they serve the devil!

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"It is no longer about 'winning, the culture war. It is about completing the social transformation that Roe began but did not solidify,

Social transformation that Roe began?! How raw and ugly and evil. Liberals are mentally ill. Transformed into a socialist, immoral, death-loving society. I think I'm going to be sick. God help US.

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Saul Alinsky... Hillary and Obamas mentor
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a39a1bb090251.htm

Antonio Gramsci... Hillarys mentor
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a4c610569be.htm

Frank Marshall Davis... Obamas mentor
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?D=2008-02-20&ID=228129

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I think this bozo's greatest danger is that he seems to be putting himself at the disposal of the wicked

He wants to be the leader of the wicked by his own choice!

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Follow the trails of Vernon Jordan and you will see where Obama came from.

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[ Follow the trails of Vernon Jordan and you will see where Obama came from. ]

NOW theres a bit of infamy.. Vernon Jordan..
Almost as nasty as the Sandy Bergular saga..

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Kissling defended her endorsement of Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton saying that his presidency would finish the “social transformation” begun by the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide.


As powerful a reason as any to get out and VOTE for John McCain this fall.

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Might Hillary stoop as low as to claim to have had an abortion? “OK, Obama, top this,” she muttered as she let fly with a tiffany lamp at the bedroom wall.

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They both lose when it comes to eternal life. (Obama and Clinton)

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From Our Lady's Warriors website:

 

Frances Kissling

President of Catholics for a Free Choice.

 

 

Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC)

Promotes artificial contraceptive "rights," including abortion. Their focus is the "intersection of Catholic teaching and public policy." Bishop Bruskewitz excommunicated those that belong to this group in his Diocese. Member of Catholic Organizations for Renewal. They have been condemned by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB).

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Any Catholic who supports abortion in any way is due for a big surprise on their judgment day: (Please read the linked references from the Catechism of the Catholic Church thoughtfully.)

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CCC Search Result - Paragraph # 2271  (618 bytes )  preview document matches 1 Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, URL: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2271.htm

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CCC Search Result - Paragraph # 2272  (580 bytes )  preview document matches 2 Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life. "A URL: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2272.htm

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CCC Search Result - Paragraph # 2322  (290 bytes )  preview document matches 2 From its conception, the child has the right to life. Direct abortion, that is, abortion willed as an end or as a means, is a "criminal" practice (GS 27 § 3), URL: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2322.htm

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4:	CCC Search Result - Paragraph # 2274  (554 bytes )  preview document matches gravely opposed to the moral law when this is done with the thought of possibly inducing an abortion, depending upon the results: a diagnosis must not be the equivalent URL: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2274.htm

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Poor Ms. Kissling. She’s gotten free will mixed up with free choice. We all have free will, no choice is free. Each one has consequences, and some more significant than others.

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Poor Ms Quisling

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Catholics for a Free Choice.

So why are they still considered Catholics? yeesh!

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“”So why are they still considered Catholics? yeesh!””

Their Not!

Statement issued by the National Council of Catholic Bishopsauthoritatively denying that Catholics for a Free Choice merit any recognition or support as a Catholic organization.

May 10, 2000

Galveston-Houston Bishop Joseph A. Fiorenza, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops/U. S. Catholic Conference, issued the following statement on the status of the organization “Catholics for a Free Choice”:

For a number of years, a group calling itself Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC), has been publicly supporting abortion while claiming it speaks as an authentic Catholic voice. That claim is false. In fact, the group’s activity is directed to rejection and distortion of Catholic teaching about the respect and protection due to defenseless unborn human life.

On a number of occasions the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) has stated publicly that CFFC is not a Catholic organization, does not speak for the Catholic Church, and in fact promotes positions contrary to the teaching of the Church as articulated by the Holy See and the NCCB.

CFFC is, practically speaking, an arm of the abortion lobby in the United States and throughout the world. It is an advocacy group dedicated to supporting abortion. It is funded by a number of powerful and wealthy private foundations, mostly American, to promote abortion as a method of population control. This position is contrary to existing United Nations policy and the laws and policies of most nations of the world.

In its latest campaign, CFFC has undertaken a concentrated public relations effort to end the official presence and silence the moral voice of the Holy See at the United Nations as a Permanent Observer. The public relations effort has ridiculed the Holy See in language reminiscent of other episodes of anti-Catholic bigotry that the Catholic Church has endured in the past.

As the Catholic Bishops of the United States have stated for many years, the use of the name Catholic as a platform for supporting the taking of innocent human life and ridiculing the Church is offensive not only to Catholics, but to all who expect honesty and forthrightness in public discourse. We state once again with the strongest emphasis: “Because of its opposition to the human rights of some of the most defenseless members of the human race, and because its purposes and activities deliberately contradict essential teachings of the Catholic faith,... Catholics for a Free Choice merits no recognition or support as a Catholic organization” (Administrative Committee, National Conference of Catholic Bishops, 1993).

See http://www.nccbuscc.org/comm/archives/00-115.htm for the official release.