Pro-life

Scott Ott of Scrappleface is always funny but this parody news story is especially accurate.

Since this question came up in a comment, I thought I would reprint this from the EWTN Catholic Q&A forum. This is a common question and there is much misinformation out there on this subject.

LANSING, Mich. – The state House has voted to protect health care workers and insurers from being fired or sued for refusing to perform a procedure, fill a prescription or cover treatment for something they object to for moral, ethical or religious reasons.

The law would apply to doctors or nurses who decline to perform or assist with abortions and to pharmacists who refuse to fill prescriptions for morning-after pills.

The Republican-controlled House overwhelmingly approved the four-bill package as dozens of Catholics looked on from the balcony.

The Michigan Catholic Conference, which pushed for the bills, hosted a legislative day for Catholics on Wednesday at the state Capitol. The Catholic Church opposes abortion and birth control.

The bills now go the Senate, which also is controlled by Republicans.

The main bill in the package would create the Conscientious Objector Policy Act. It would allow +health+ care providers to assert an objection within 24 hours of when they receive notice of a procedure with which they do not agree. However, it would prohibit emergency treatment to be refused.

…The bill does not allow pharmacists to refuse to fill prescriptions for birth control.
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So I guess some consciences are protected and others are not. If you are a faithful Catholic or one of the Protestants who also believe in the immorality of birth control then you are just out of luck. This caveat in the bill is just plain ridiculous. The morning after pill is really just a stronger dose of the normal birth control pill. This pill and the regular birth control pill both can stop implantation in the womb of a human person resulting in the starvation death of that child. If you are going to have a conscience clause and then dictate what consciences are allowed you have created a law that is ethically challenged and is in fact prejudiced and treats one religious belief as valid and another one as not. Of course this bill still has to go through Governor Jennifer Granholm, a Catholic that has vetoed anything that restricts abortion.

GRANVILLE – Norma McCorvey doesn’t shy away from controversy.

McCorvey, the real-life person fictitiously named “Jane Roe” in the 1973 Supreme Court abortion- on-demand decision in Roe v. Wade, spoke at Denison University’s Swasey Chapel Wednesday night.

She started by telling the crowd of about 150 people that she hadn’t been brought to the campus to change anyone’s mind about abortion. She said she does not speak for the pro-life movement, only for herself. She talked about her upbringing as a Catholic and a Jehovah’s Witness, how she worked at a Dallas abortion clinic, and her conversion to Christianity 10 years ago, when the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue moved its offices next door.

Then the fireworks started. When a group of people applauded, apparently in favor of abortion, she had a campus security guard remove a female student. A stream of other people left with her in protest. After that, the lines were clearly drawn between the pro-life and pro-choice factions.

During a brief recess before a question-and-answer period, Kris Hill, a 20-year-old sophomore from Dresden said, “Ideologically, I do not agree with abortion. I believe it’s murder. But I don’t agree with her asking people with dissenting opinions to leave. I just think that’s wrong.”

Teresa Bratton, a 19-year-old sophomore from Danville, Ohio, said she believed McCorvey managed to alienate just about everyone in the audience.

“First of all, she completely alienated anyone who was just here to hear the other side of the story,” Bratton said. “Then she went ahead and alienated a lot of people by just talking about the God aspect of it. I know that’s a huge part of it. I’m Catholic and pro-choice. But by the time she started talking about Catholicism, I was already blocking everything she said because it was so ridiculous.”

It is rather strange to hear someone say “I’m Catholic and pro-choice” and then complain that something somebody else said was ridiculous.

…When asked about her participation in the landmark Supreme Court case, she said she was 22 years old in 1969 when she was approached by Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee, two lawyers attempting to overturn the Texas statute outlawing abortion. She described herself as a homeless hippie, and the women offered her two things she truly loved: pizza and beer. But after they acquired her participation, she said, “They pretty well used me as the sacrificial lamb.”
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WASHINGTON, April 1 /U.S. Newswire/ — The following is a statement of Reverend Carlton W. Veazey, president of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice on the Unborn Victims of Violence Act:

President Bush’s signing today of the so-called “Unborn Victims of Violence Act” has radical implications for freedom of religion and conscience in America. As of today, this nation has enacted into law a narrow religious belief about human personhood. This law explicitly states that a fertilized egg or fetus at any stage of development is a “child,” which is a religious belief held by some – but by no means all or even most – religions. With this law, the Religious Right has succeeded in laying the foundation for its overriding purpose of outlawing abortion rights and reinstating government control of women’s reproductive lives.
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I wish these type of statements were April’s Fools jokes, but this Reverend is just a plain sick fool advancing the culture of death and selfishness. I wonder how he reads the story of the Visitation in the Gospel of Luke. Does his translation say “the product of conception leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit (but this is in no way an endorsement of the personship of the pre-natal John the Baptist).

I guess I can now propose an infallible liberal eye test. Show people a picture of a murdered pregnant woman and ask them how many victims they see. If they reply “one”, their moral blindness confirms that they are indeed a liberal.

Kudos to President George W. Bush for signing yet another pro-life law.

Otto Clemson Hiss of Otto-da-Fe has a reaction to Montana’s approval of Planned Parenthood “Pro-Family, Pro-Choice” license plate. His license plate graphics are far more accurate to the real meaning and intent of pro-abortion license plates.

He even dedicated one to my Moloch Now blog.

JOHNSTON, R.I. — Members of a Catholic church in Johnston are wondering if vandalism done to one of their statues is a hate crime.

A statue in front of the Our Lady of Grace Church on Lafayette Street was vandalized Monday night.

There was a spray painted message that said, “anti-choice nazis.”

The statue is called “The Good Shepard,” and is meant to represent the church’s pro-life beliefs.

Johnston police are investigating the incident.
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I guess these pro-aborts don’t know their history very well. Margaret Sanger the founder of Planned Parenthood was a prominent proponent of eugenics and forced sterilization. The magazine she founded Birth Control Review contained articles by prominent Germans (and later Nazis) in favor of eugenics. She also appointed Lothrop Stoddard as a board member of the Birth Control League (the forerunner of Planned Parenthood). Lothrop Stoddard was quite pleased with what was happening in Germany and even met with Adolf Hitler. His writings were featured in Nazi school text books. Of course Margaret Sanger and her racist views have never been renounced by Planned Parenthood and every year they give out the “Maggie”, the award named after her. America was very influential on Nazi Germany’s policies. Many states had forced sterilization policies long before Germany did and their leaders formulated their own laws based on California’s policies.

Truly the pro-abortion crowd is more closely tied in to the Nazi regime then they will ever admit or even know. Forced sterilization in recent years in South America were under the auspices of the U.N. and pro-abortion groups. Somehow to me the words forced and choice don’t go well together. Of course most people in favor of abortion or Planned Parenthood do not know about these ties or how Margaret Sanger deliberately started the “Negro Project” and enlisted the help of black clergy to preach the value of “family planning” a.k.a. contraception. This was part of her plan to reduce “human weeds.”

The rate of abortion in Australia was a national tragedy and society had too lax an attitude towards sexual promiscuity among teenagers, federal Health Minister Tony Abbott said yesterday.

Speaking at Adelaide University on the ethical role of a Christian politician, Mr Abbott, a Catholic, said there were 100,000 abortions in Australia each year, which he labelled a measure of the nation’s moral health.

“An objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother’s convenience,” Mr Abbott told students amid boos and jeers from protesters.

“Aborting a foetus is not morally identical to deliberately killing a living human being, but it’s not just removing a wart or a cyst either.

“Even those who think that abortion is a woman’s right should surely be troubled by the fact that 100,000 Australian women choose to destroy their unborn babies every year.”

Two hecklers were escorted out of the building by security guards during the speech.

His comments also prompted a protest chant of, “Get your morals off our bodies.”
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FEMALE drug addicts will be given long-term contraceptives under plans being considered by ministers.

The Scottish Executive has said it is examining plans which were drawn up last year which would see drug users given long-lasting contraceptives, such as injections and coils in order to prevent them having unwanted pregnancies.

The admission, comes in the wake of dramatic proposals by a leading academic which would see women on drugs paid to go on contraceptives.

…But a spokesman for the Catholic Church, Peter Kearney, said: “If you are going to sterilise drug-addicted women, why stop there? Why not sterilise alcoholics? There must be as many women with chronic alcohol problems.”
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I remember a TV movie in the 1970’s where a couple are running from the law since they had a unlicensed child. I thought the movie was pretty over the top and ridiculous. I am not laughing anymore. The answer for drug-addicted women is now contraceptives. That’s real compassion for you. I remember another movie in the 1970s Logan’s Run where they killed anybody over 30. Our culture is fast becoming an anti-Logans Run where everybody is over 30. Much of Europe is fast approaching this and without immigration we would have also.

Porter told LifeNews.com that she and a friend went to an event the Kerry campaign had scheduled in Tampa. She brought along a sign that simply read, “My abortion hurt me.”

She hoped Kerry would see it, but knowing only a limited number of people were being allowed inside the event, her best prospects were to show it those attending.

“I almost didn’t go because doubt and fear was beginning to set in,” Porter said. “But I went to hold my sign for the people walking in. I did not go as a Bush supporter or as a Republican, but as a woman hurt by abortion.”

Dozens of people walked by and saw her sign.

…Porter tells LifeNews.com that one detractor told her he wished the abortion had killed her. His wife elbowed him in the stomach afterwards.

…”Then it happened,” Porter explains. “He reached up to shake a hand in the back and his eyes went up to my sign. He read it and then he looked into the crowd to see who was holding it — and he looked me directly in the eyes.”

“I hope he saw my pain. I was not angry, just pleading with him to understand. You could see the shock and surprise on his face,” Porter said.

But within seconds, a Kerry campaign staff member approached Porter and grabbed her sign.

“You can’t have that sign here,” the Kerry staffer said.

The sign tore and Porter let go. After he had possession of it, the Kerry staffer “tore it to pieces” and walked away. “He wouldn’t even let me have the pieces,” Porter said.
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So much for John Kerry’s vaunted personally opposed position on abortion. Liberal Brown Shirts will not allow any expression outside of the Democrat’s dogma on abortion.