Blood moon election day...
Posted on 11/08/2022 9:25:51 PM PST by Morgana
California has solidified its stance as one of the most radically pro-abortion states in America as voters there approved a ballot measure to allow killing babies in taxpayer-funded abortions up to birth.
Unfortunately, with 37% of the vote calucated, Proposition 1 has an unsurprising lead of 69-31% in one of the most radically leftist states in the country.
Leading pro-life advocates and the Catholic Church campaign against the proposal.
San Jose Bishop Oscar Cantú, president of the California Catholic Conference, said the proposed state constitutional amendment is bad for women and children.
“California’s political leadership has made it clear that the state’s priority is to make it easy to end a pregnancy, but hard and expensive to keep one. Women, children and families deserve better,” Cantú wrote, joined by Orange Bishop Kevin Vann and Auxiliary Bishop Timothy Freyer.
The bishops said Proposition 1 would end what few limits on abortion California has and enshrine into the state constitution a “right” to taxpayer-funded “late-term abortion up until the moment of birth, even if both mother and child are healthy.”
Democrat lawmakers introduced the amendment earlier this year, arguing California needs to establish a “right” to abortion in response to the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade in June.
But the lawmakers who championed the amendment have not been clear about exactly what it would do. Polls show California voters support the amendment but they also overwhelmingly oppose late-term abortions, which the amendment would allow.
The bishops pointed to a Rasmussen poll in August that found only 13 percent of California voters think abortions should be legal up to birth.
“California already has some of the most permissive abortion laws in the country,” the bishops continued. If it passes, the state would have “some of the most permissive abortion policies in the world,” joining countries like China and North Korea.
They also criticized Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers for making the killing of unborn babies a top priority while ignoring families’ true needs.
“Our state budget allocated $20 million to provide for travel, missed wages, child care and even doula care for women from other states seeking abortions but Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed the very same care for low-income California residents who maintain their pregnancies,” the bishops wrote. “There is no equity or even a push for parity in medical coverage for pregnant women and mothers.”
They continued:
Our state budget includes hundreds of millions of dollars for expanding abortion access while ignoring very real problems that currently plague it. The California legislature has budgeted $200 million to fund and expand abortion … —those are funds that could otherwise have paid for full prenatal care for 110,000 California women. They could have paid for labor and delivery costs for 28,000 new California mothers, or for a full year of rent for 12,000 California families.
In contrast, they said Catholics in the state have been working to expand support services for pregnant and parenting families, including through a new campaign called We Were Born Ready that equips Catholics to connect families in need with life-affirming service providers across state.
Together, the bishops urged Californians to reject the amendment and focus instead on creating a society that values every human life.
“We seek to create a world that cherishes every human life and identifies real solutions to the obstacles women face during pregnancy—so no woman feels her only choice is abortion,” they said.
California has the largest number of abortion facilities in the country at 168; New York is second with 89, according to a new ANSIRH study. A new law slated to go into effect next year will force all public colleges and universities to provide abortions on campus. Newsom and Democrat lawmakers also are working closely with the abortion industry to expand abortions in other ways.
State abortion facilities reported 132,680 abortions in 2017, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
This is the saddest thing I have ever read about America. Voting to kill babies at birth.
Unconscionable. Who would do that except the most depraved wicked person. This is a decision by Satan himself.
An exhibition of savages if there ever was one.
Wish they all could be California girls/irony
I’m noticing this. Voting behavior does not seem to match our culture.
We don’t go see gay romcom at the theater, but we turn out big for Maverick.
I was pretty sure the fix was in, the Dems don’t seem to be concerned with elections too much anymore. I mean who gives a V for Vendetta style speech right before an election? A dude not worried about elections.
up to birth... up to viability...
massive difference of opinion there !
This country is doomed
Moloch is pleased.
As usual, the proposition was worded in a way that sounded reasonable to a lot of people: “the state shall not deny or interfere with an individual’s reproductive freedom in their most intimate decisions, which includes their fundamental right to choose to have an abortion and their fundamental right to choose or refuse contraceptives.” But as a constitutional amendment it essentially overrides a 2002 state law that effectively prohibits abortions after 24 weeks of pregnancy. Most people don't make that connection, and it was of course designed that way.
Maranatha!
The babies that re being murdered are not evil.
The Bishops were apparently unwilling to use the words “baby” and “babies”.
*sigh*
a sad day for the babies.
But at least people are being allowed to vote on this instead of having it imposed by the court. Change their hearts and minds and eventually they can vote against it.
They may be born innocent, but their wicked parents will raise them up to be as they are.
That contention doesn’t apply if:
1.The son or daughter is strong enough to counter their parents’ negative influence
OR
2.The son or daughter has people in their lives who are positive enough to counter the parents’ negative influence
Also, millions of children are molded by public schools and a toxic culture.
From here it’s only a step away from killing a child in the womb at nine months to killing a child at nine years old.
“...California, tumbles into the sea, that’ll be the day I go back to Annandale!”
God will not tolerate this, get ready for that Steely Dan song to come true.
If the baby is born the normal way, he/she may not be killed. But if the baby is on the way to being born, it’s OK to kill him/her.
The public should be able to see the absurdity of that statement, but it looks like it chooses not to.
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