Posted on 11/05/2008 12:02:49 PM PST by GonzoII
The abortion lobby will be quick to claim that the American people wrote a blank check last night for on-demand abortion.
That’s just not so.
While the Democratic Party won the White House as well as decisive control over both houses of Congress, exit polls found that economic issues were overwhelmingly the most important motivators for voters yesterday.
And when voters are worried about their pocketbooks as they are right now due to the global financial crisis, the party of the incumbent president is almost always punished.
Obviously, with the Democrats so dominant and President-elect Barack Obama so committed to the expansion of abortion rights, the next four years are going to be extraordinarily challenging for the pro-life community. But Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, says that’s no reason to lose hope.
“The American people do not share Barack Obama’s extreme and offensive views on abortion,” Father Pavone said in a Nov. 4 statement, entitled “A Grave Mistake and an Abiding Hope.” “They never have and they never will.”
Added Father Pavone, “The vast majority of Americans are pro-life. They will fight abortion on the local level, opening pregnancy centers and closing abortion mills, activating their Churches and educating their children, proclaiming the message in the media and demonstrating in the streets. The pro-life movement is winning this battle in the hearts and minds of the American people, as opinion polls show and as the shrinking number of abortion mills and abortion providers prove.
“Political races are always a swinging of the pendulum. As soon as you win, you begin to lose, and as soon as you lose, you begin the ascent again to winning. In the next two election cycles (2010 and 2012) the pro-life movement will make up for political ground lost in this one.”
Concluded Father Pavone, “It is all right to be disappointed at the end of an election season, but one must never walk away. Amidst disappointment is abiding hope in America, where everything remains possible, and where a new chapter of the pro-life movement has just begun. The efforts that were made, and the sacrifices endured in this election season made a difference, and we will build on that difference to see another day when the work and the ballots of pro-life people will dismantle the Culture of Death. We will keep marching toward that pro-life America we seek, and won’t stop until we get there.”
— Tom McFeely
But the chance of overturning Roe any time soon seem to have died
3 SC justices!
The life issue was likely set back 20 years last night.
The fact that people would supposedly vote for their pocketbooks (how exactly is Obama so good on the economy?)instead of for the principle of life is way beyond me. Life is of so much more value to me that there was no way I could vote for Obama, a devout abortionist, no matter what freebies he promised me. I am heart broken over this.
Of course the irony being that 4190 men and women who died bravely fighting for our country and its interests is something that must be stopped immediately but aborting 1.5 million children a year for 35 years (55 million total; compared to a 300 million total US population) is apparently a “right” “hidden in (nonexistent) prenumbras from the constitution”. Don’t get me wrong, it is awful that those men and women died but they were doing important missions; their deaths were not in vain. Yet 55 million + can die for nothing more than “convenience” and there is no outrage.
I’ll beg to differ. Life did lose. And if pocketbook concerns are what motivated most voters and even some pro-life voters to overlook Obama’s stance on abortion, well — I’m pretty sure they’re going to lose on that one, too.
Two strikes.
Hello NEWBIE!!! Life did indeed lose last night.....death won...death is ruling us.
I think if people really and truly believed that Roe v Wade would have been overturned, more would have cared. As for me, I don’t trust the republican leaders who have been telling us for decades that this is an issue they care about. It’s apparent they don’t. It’s not even number 25 on their to-do list. We’ve been had.
We are winning the abortion issue by changing the hearts and minds of Americans. Abortion has been reduced in recent years. The abortion clinics are disappering gradually because there is no one willing to staff them. These facts are from F. Frank Pavone. There is no army (or government) so strong as an idea whose time has come. Continue to debate the liberals with facts, we are winning.
The "Freedom of Choice Act" is a major concern, if it gets through Congress...maybe with the Senate not having close to a filibuster-proof majority for the pro-death party, the danger has receded a little. It's Orwellian in its name--it would remove freedom of choice for people who don't want anything to do with killing unborn children, if they work in a health-related field.
An earlier thread today noted that God seems to have “removed His hand from us.” I don’t disagree with that except to note that He already did, some time back. This was very likely our last chance, as a nation, to have His favor return to us (to the extent that we had it to begin with: a notion that is somewhat overblown, IMHO). Christians in general (Protestants, Catholics and Orthodox)have only themselves to blame, settling for treading water all these years in the Republican party, which is moving more and more to the left, and even away from pro-life causes (though more slowly), where support from the RNC has been little more than lip-service for years.
They’ve abandoned their base, and are putting forth very mediocre candidates like McCain, who have more support with some Democrats than true conservative Christians. And we’ve let them do it. Because we were more interested in merely putting in “anybody” who could at least mouth pro-life sentiments, just to avoid allowing pro-death Dems to simply walk in unopposed. We should have been more active within our own ranks maintaining - and increasing - an overall Christian worldview in this country, which would reap its own political rewards. This has never been done. A naive trust in the RNC was left to substitute, and it has yielded a very poor harvest.
I’ve been saying this for years, and have been called everything you can think of and more because of it. But I am no traitor! The Republicans have abandoned me and my own Christ-centered values; I have not abandoned them. On a national level, I will never even consider voting Republican again. I will work to help foster a viable new party that will maintain and (at least eventually) increase its voter support in as short a timespan as possible. I might still vote for some Republicans at more local levels, but, nationally, they cannot get it done. Fostering a new party cannot do any worse.
We are headed into Night. And, again, we Christians, of all types, have brought this on ourselves. We can only pray that there will be a Dawn to awaken to.
Pocketbook issues = 30 pieces of silver.
Some hand over the Lord anew.
Both lost. The Pro life movement is not the GOP and vice versa, but they are connected (or rather were).
After yesterday, a radical pro infanticide president will do his best to imposed unrestrained abortion and God knows what else. And the GOP will continue to jettison what remaining pro life planks that it has. Witness on this very site the hatred for religious conservatives.
Some of my former friends (whom I have lost because of this election) are professing Christians, but they didn't think that abortion is that big of a deal. They have in fact said that Obama is the more “Christian” because he will give to the “poor”. And you know what? It looks like the majority of professed Christians in the US agree with them.
Very soon, we will not have a voice in politics. Very soon, the cup of God's wrath will be emptied on us. The blood of millions of slaughtered children are on the hands of the nation, and the majority of the people said that is fine, just give us money.
So yes, the Pro Life movement took a hit last night. And this election will probably end it in the realm of politics. But there is still the quiet things we can do. Help at a non infanticide crisis pregnancy shelter, pray, work hard to pass along the faith to our children, and try to talk those who feel the need to kill their children out of it.
But I fear that we are entering a long dark night. Perhaps we were no matter who got elected.
Pocketbook issues = 30 pieces of silver.
Good point.
We can still win a major victory. New website:
FightFOCA.com
It depends on how you define soon. Obviously, it won't happen in the next four years. But, so long as the four presumed pro-life justices don't retire and Obama doesn't have a chance to replace the other five, it's still possible starting in 2013.
If three judges retiring are all pro-Roe, that would still leave two older justices to be replaced after Obama's first term.
And, who is to say McCain could have pushed through pro-life justices with a huge Democratic majority?
Regain Congress and elect a pro-life President in 2012. It's very possible.
Stevens has been wanting to leave for a while now, or even if he doesn’t he is 88 and would be 92 by the end of the Obama presidency so it is very likely he might die during the term-— so there is at least one Obama appointee
Ginsburg has already survived a fight with cancer in the past but for all we know it may recur
And finally, rumor has it Kennedy might retire at some point soon too
so there are anywhere between 1 and 3 seats that would open up... so although I agree it is possible it could happen after Obama’s term, it is pretty unlikely.
“We are winning the abortion issue by changing the hearts and minds of Americans”.
And that would be the greatest victory of all!
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