Couldn't have said it better

Found this excerpt in a Washington Post Op-Ed column:

Americans disagree strongly about the proper legal status of abortion. But for decades there has been a rough consensus that no one should be compelled to participate in abortions or have their federal tax dollars used for abortion. These three changes would shatter that consensus, making the destruction of life an essential part of the medical and legal order while stigmatizing and marginalizing all who object. This would be an outrage and a scandal -- a troubling reinterpretation of religious liberty, which is not merely the freedom to believe but the freedom to bring religiously informed moral beliefs to professional and political life.

I could not have said it better.

Obama promised FOCA

Most people that know me know that I am as Pro-Life as it gets. Abortion sickens me to the core. Below, I have a wonderfully written article (by my Mom) that talks about the Freedom of Choice Act.

Barack Obama told a Planned Parenthood audience in July 2007 that the first thing he’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. (Search YouTube for FOCA). The Senate version, S.1173, was sponsored by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), and the House bill, H.R. 1964, was introduced by Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY). Barack Obama was a co-sponsor of the Senate Bill. What is FOCA?

• It creates a fundamental right to abortion throughout the nine months of pregnancy.
• No governmental body at any level would be able to deny or interfere with this right.
• It would eliminate all informed-consent state laws (advising women of the risks of abortion).
• It would eliminated all state-enacted parental involvement laws including notification
• It eliminates regulations on abortion clinics
• It would end conscience-protection laws (pro-life hospitals and medical personnel opting out of abortion procedures)
• After FOCA, any laws prohibiting a particular abortion procedure, such as partial birth abortion, would no longer be in force.
• It would strike laws requiring that abortions only be performed by a license physician.
• It codifies Roe v. Wade

The Catholic Church, one of the nation’s largest health care providers, may shut down over 500 hospitals and 400 clinics that it now operates if the law passes rather than become abortion clinics. At least 80 million poor and work-class families could lose health care currently provided by the Catholic Church.

A letter was sent to all members of Congress in September by Cardinal Justin Rigali, chairman of the US Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities. He stated that “ Despite its deceptive title, FOCA, would deprive the American people in all 50 states of the freedom they now have to enact modest restraints and regulations on the abortion industry. It would counteract any and all sincere efforts by government to reduce abortions in our country. We can’t reduce abortions by promoting abortion.”

While similar legislation has been introduced in the past, the Senate may have a filibuster proof majority to get this law passed. And with a willing president eager to sign FOCA, abortion on demand could become a national entitlement. Please contact Senators Boxer and Feinstein as well as your Congressman/woman asking them to oppose FOCA.

Seriously? I do not understand how people could support abortions after 6 or 7 months. With today's technology, a baby can survive at those times. If the child can survive outside the womb, that is like, super murder to me. That defeats the purpose to me. And eliminating Doctor's from having to tell women the risks of abortion? Harumph--in the last 30 years, 600,000 women have suffered post-abortion depression. Of course, out of the 50 million abortions performed, I guess that is a small amount. COUGH. Not only that, but having an abortion could seriously affect a woman's reproductive system. These things should be mentioned, as well as the Option of Adoption.

As far as closing the Catholic Hospitals, Bishop Thomas Paprocki says,

“It would not be sufficient to withdraw our sponsorship or to sell them to someone who would perform abortions. That would be a morally unacceptable cooperation in evil.”

But others want to simply ignore FOCA if it gets passed. Why?

According to the Catholic Health Association of the United States, Catholic hospitals make up 13 percent of the country’s nearly 5,000 hospitals, and employ more than 600,000 people. CHA says one of every six Americans hospitalized in the United States is cared for in a Catholic hospital.

The question I would really like to ask is this: If our President has said on so many occasions that he wants to find common ground and compromise--why then is he going out of his way to royally piss on the conservatives in this country? He made a campaign promise that if the Freedom of Choice should come to him in a bill, as President he would sign it.

I can honestly, from my heart, understand some women who get abortions in the first trimester. But later on---isn't that just more evidence that they're killing an actual person? When you see it coming out in pieces?

Cafeteria Catholics make me sick...

So I love the Pope right now. I had some doubts because of this, in which the Pope, while still a Cardinal in 2003, states,

"It is good, that you enlighten people about Harry Potter, because those are
subtle seductions, which act unnoticed and by this deeply distort Christianity
in the soul, before it can grow properly."

That is another story entirely, but, Harry Potter is amazing.

Anyway, Pope Benedict XVI recently met with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, or, she met with him at the Vatican. Both sides issued press statements. This was his:

"His Holiness took the opportunity to speak of the requirements of the natural
moral law and the Church's consistent teaching on the dignity of human life from
conception to natural death which enjoin all Catholics, and especially
legislators, jurists and those responsible for the common good of society, to
work in cooperation with all men and women of good will in creating a just
system of laws capable of protecting human life at all stages of its
development."

Her statement:

“It is with great joy that my husband, Paul, and I met with his Holiness, Pope
Benedict XVI today. In our conversation, I had the opportunity to praise the
Church's leadership in fighting poverty, hunger and global warming, as well
as the Holy Father's dedication to religious freedom and his upcoming trip
and message to Israel. I was proud to show his Holiness a photograph of my
family's Papal visit in the 1950s, as well as a recent picture of our
children and grandchildren.”

First of all, you go Papa! (he's called Papa in Italy). Nancy Pelosi misrepresented the views of the Catholic church back in 2008 when she claimed that

"As an ardent, practicing Catholic, this is an issue that I have studied for a
long time. And what I know is, over the centuries, the doctors of the church
have not been able to make that definition...And Senator--St. Augustine said at
three months. We don't know."

One of the first things that swayed me over to the side of Pro-Life (I used to be Pro-Choice..that whole, "I don't believe in abortion, but what right do I have to tell someone what to do?") was the idea that when you believe something is wrong, it is wrong no matter what: murder, rape, war, etc. Standing by, and like Pelosi, actually endorsing legislation that helps make more abortions, that is like performing them herself. While you are elected to office to represent a constituency, hers being San Francisco (cough), you must also vote your conscience, and your morals. This makes her a Cafeteria Catholic--someone to be despised. You either believe what the church says, or you don't--and MURDER--that is a big thing to be vague about.

That whole Separation of Church and State thing isn't really valid here, because it didn't mean separate religion or morals from our laws, it meant don't force a religion to be nationalized, like in England. And now it generally means don't sponsor a religion with Government funds or programs.

"I support the doctrine of separation of church and state as traditionally
interpreted to prohibit the establishment of an official national religion. But
this does not mean that we should divorce government from any formal recognition
of God. To do so strikes a potentially fatal blow at the concept of the divine
origin of our rights, and unlocks the door for an easy entry of future tyranny.
If Americans should ever come to believe that their rights and freedoms are
instituted among men by politicians and bureaucrats, they will no longer carry
the proud inheritance of their forefathers, but will grovel before their masters
seeking favors and dispensations -- a throwback to the feudal system of the Dark
Ages." (Ezra Taft Benson, "Freedom Is Our Heritage," 10 Nov. 1970)

I laugh at Pelosi when she calls herself an ardent, practicing Catholic, and yet believes that the government, which takes Catholic, taxpayers' money, should pay for abortions and contraceptives for not only our citizens or illegal persons living here, but also individuals in foreign countries! One of the first things Obama did when he came into office: signed an executive order lifting the ban on government funding for abortions. Another scary thing I found in my research about the Freedom of Choice Act (which thankfully has not passed):

FOCA would over-turn almost all of the legislative successes pro-lifers have
realized over the past thirty-five years, including the federal ban on
partial-birth abortion and bans on public funding of abortion. FOCA has
been on the liberal wish list for years. President Obama has been a
co-sponsor of the legislation, and in 2007 he stated that signing FOCA would be
“the first thing I’d do as president.”

I can believe that if you are a reasonable Pro-Choice (cough Pro-Abortion, Pro-Murder) person, you can at least appreciate that a Pro-Life (not Anti-Choice) individual does not want their money going toward abortions.

But honestly! The President that promised change and claimed he would be bi-partisan and unite our country chose to alienate almost half of the country by signing that executive order. It was, by the way, one of the first things that he did in office. What a keeper.

The fact that we have that president and that Speaker Pelosi terrifies me. Please Pope Benedict, won't you excommunicate her?