Posted on 01/17/2020 8:28:38 PM PST by Morgana
Massachusetts Catholic bishops are urging people to stand up against the push to legalize abortions up to birth in their state.
The Boston Pilot reports the Massachusetts Catholic Conference hopes to raise awareness about the radical pro-abortion legislation this weekend through bulletin inserts and other educational efforts.
Massachusetts could become the next New York state if state House Bill 3320/Senate Bill 1209 pass the state legislature. Nicknamed the R.O.E. Act, the legislation would legalize abortions for basically any reason up to birth. Though the legislation technically restricts abortions after 24 weeks, it allows wide exceptions for abortions after that point. The bill also would allow infanticide by repealing a state law that requires basic medical care for viable infants who survive abortions.
According to the Pilot, the legislation would force state taxpayers to pay for abortions and remove common sense health regulations, including a requirement that late-term abortions be done in hospitals and that an underage girl receive her parent’s consent prior to having an abortion.
“With your help and the help of your family, friends, and neighbors, we must make every effort to ensure that these bills do not become law in Massachusetts,” Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley wrote in a recent letter to the priests in his diocese. “Your voice and the voices of all opposed to unprecedented expansion of abortion will make a difference. It is of critical importance that the women and men who represent us in the Legislature know where we stand on the protection of life.”
Massachusetts pro-lifers are working in many ways to protect babies and mothers from the devastation of abortion, including through rallies, pregnancy resource centers, awareness campaigns and more.
If the R.O.E. Act passes, Massachusetts could join New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Illinois in allowing unborn babies to be aborted for basically any reason up to birth.
The Massachusetts legislation states that unborn babies may be aborted in the third trimester for a wide variety of “health” reasons.
“Medical judgment may be exercised in the light of all factors—physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the person’s age—relevant to the well-being of the patient,” the bill states in reference to late-term abortions for “health” reasons.
Under these terms, healthy, viable unborn babies may be aborted for basically any reason up to birth.
Most Americans oppose late-term abortions. A 2019 poll by the Susan B. Anthony List found that 62 percent of Massachusetts voters oppose late-term abortions, including 49 percent of Democrat and 66 percent of independent voters. The same number, 62 percent, also support the current state law requiring parental consent before a girl under 18 has an abortion, the poll found.
Pro-abortion groups backing the bill include NARAL, Planned Parenthood, the ACLU and the Massachusetts Family Planning Association.
ACTION: Contact Massachusetts state lawmakers and urge opposition to House Bill 3320/Senate Bill 1209.
Sick
Those legislators who allowed abortion to become allowed will have to meet their Maker one day. I wouldn’t want to be in their shoes. No sireeeee.
In fact, most pro-life orgs and leaders are to abortion what the Chamber of Commerce is to the economy. They're never proactive. They don't help to recruit candidates and they don't do s--t during the legislative process until it's up for a vote.
47 years of legalized infanticide.
Lovely people.
Even if they are gay? Or identify as a different gender? or no gender at all?
So evil.
I’d rather be dismembered or have my head crushed, get it over with quickly, rather than helplessly struggling for hours.
My tag line says it all
I agree that these bishops are full of sh!t. The time to fight this battle was years ago. They already surrendered when they gave a full Catholic funeral to a diabolical apostate like Ted Kennedy instead of sending his carcass out to sea on a burning garbage scow.
“....So evil. I’d rather be dismembered or have my head crushed, get it over with quickly, rather than helplessly struggling for hours...”
Yep. It’s a cruel form of devil worship. It’s practically identical to the ancient Children of Israel who drifted away from God to worship the demon god, Molech, instead. They tossed their new first-born onto the fiery, scotching, red-hot arms of this demonic statue as worship to Molech for better crops and a bountiful life. They would beat drums and blow trumpets as loud as they possibly could to drown out the screams of those babies as they cooked to death on those hot arms. It is no different than what they are doing today. Instead of Molech, it is worship of the god of “Self”...really there is no difference other than the technology to perform the sacrifice.
IMHO, God doesn’t change and is not mocked. Rest assured, just as He dealt with this horrible evil in the ancient past, He will deal with it again. How? The same way He did back then.
If the purveyors of this horrific agenda were brutally slaughtered, I wouldn’t care.
When do babies acquire protection of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution? When they have a heartbeat, they are a viable fetus, or when they are 18 years old? If the Dems can pass the legislation, they may start killing Seniors at age 75.
These students had gullibly bought into the canard that evil conservatives were taking away their right to kill their babies when in reality anywhere from 500 dollars to 15 grand and the right “reason” will ensure that you get a dead kid. All the pro-life laws in the world apparently won’t succeed in stopping the abhorrent practice of abortion until the USSC actually does something to roll it back.
Behold the American Nazis and their Holocaust.
Here in the communist state of Oregon, we remain the only state with absolutely no restrictions on abortion. We pay for anyone (citizen, alien legal or not) to have this “service” performed.
Oregon Right for Life is a money gathering service for employees like the American CANCER Society. I can’t remember the last time they brought any petition for reform to the voters, but every December I still get a request in the mail for my tax credit dollars. They also refuse to support any others who do try to change the law.
MURDER plain and simple, and these are the first to yell Nazi. So Dr Mengele was a hero no?
Democrats demand the right to kill babies. You and I are next. Buy weapons and ammo, folks.
JoMa
This is very obviously murder, as much as killing an adult is murder. That is the fallicy in the pro-abortion argument.
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