Dear ScholarWarrior,
As a "rabid pro-lifer," I assure you that the current intermediate goal is nothing more than the overturning of Roe.
After that, we "rabid pro-lifers" will change directions, and will mobilize to develop and pass the most restrictive abortion legislation that we can in each of the several states. If we can do it at the federal level, we will.
If we have to settle for intermediate results of banning some abortions and not others, we will so settle. And some of us will be upset by the compromises, and others will keep fighting to extend the law to protect even more unborn human beings. We will never give up until every human being is protected in law and welcomed into life.
But that's called politics. That's how it works. Right now, all we are fighting for is for the legal question to be returned to the realm of politics, rather than the realm of unappointed fat-assed morons who think themselves judges.
While we are not busy promoting legislation to protect unborn persons in law, we will continue to support the thousands of crisis pregnancy centers and pregnancy aid centers that, at very great cost, provide real, on-the-ground alternatives for women in crisis pregnancies. We will continue to hold our spaghetti dinners (our Knights of Columbus Ladies Auxiliary raised a thousand dollars for our local Gabriel Project last week with a spaghetti dinners), we will continue to collect change and pass out lifesavers, we will continue our vehicle donation programs, we will continue to do all that we can, at considerable financial cost, to give real assistance to women so that they have real alternatives to procuring the death of their babies.
We are tireless and unrelenting. We will not give up. We will not look the other way. We will not rest.
Because a society cannot call itself just if it does not protect in law the basic human rights of all human beings.
sitetest
God bless you.
We're right there next to you.
While we are not busy promoting legislation to protect unborn persons in law, we will continue to support the thousands of crisis pregnancy centers and pregnancy aid centers that, at very great cost, provide real, on-the-ground alternatives for women in crisis pregnancies. We will continue to hold our spaghetti dinners (our Knights of Columbus Ladies Auxiliary raised a thousand dollars for our local Gabriel Project last week with a spaghetti dinners), we will continue to collect change and pass out lifesavers, we will continue our vehicle donation programs, we will continue to do all that we can, at considerable financial cost, to give real assistance to women so that they have real alternatives to procuring the death of their babies.
I dont' think that it can be argued that the availibilty for abortion didn't immediately increase it's demand.
When I was in 6th grade an eight grader became pregnant and saw her pregnancy through at a Catholic girl's home in Buffalo, NY. The year was 1967. Don't know if she gave birth to a boy or a girl, but she gave the child up for adoption. She went on to marry a fine man, have more children and live a generally happy life. In my mind, and in the mind of many of us small-towners, she was a hero because she extended her own right to life to her child.
Arguing that making abortion illegal would drive women back to the coat-hanger days is not a very effective one. You can always choose life, and in the US there is all manner of assistance open to you. Adherence to God's law on life, and courage are the only things the distressed girl needs to see herself through the hardship. The Church will help her any way she can.
Do you accept the fact that the instant after conception, a woman still has basic human rights, and that her just fertilized human egg arguably does not?
--- And, that it is an unresolved Constitutional question as to exactly when that fertilized human egg develops into a person with rights of its own?
Until you can honestly admit that governments have no power to decide those issues, we will have to let juries, operating under due process, do it.
That's the american way.