If they’d been less eager to have “easy” government funding for Catholic hospitals, maybe ZeroCare would never have gotten off the ground.
I’m glad they finally opened their eyes, but criminetly … the folks in Pro-Life were telling them for YEARS that nationalizing health care was a guaranteed road to forcing every American to finance abortion.
We told them and told them and told them, but they just patted us on the head and said we were being silly, cuz that wouldn’t happen in the United States of America. Yeah.
They said the same kind of thing in Germany. And Cuba.
I believe the fundamental sin here was that they looked to government rather than to God to finance their good works and He’s let it bite them on the butt to teach them a lesson.
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The #1 abortuary in Alabama started a fund-raiser called “Adopt an Anti” in which pro-aborts “adopt” a specific pro-lifer who habitually comes to the clinic to pray, promising to make a $5 or $10 donation to the clinic each time the adoptee shows up.
Seriously! An ADOPTION campaign at a clinic that offers NO adoption services for pregnant women who might want to choose something other than infanticide.
‘Bama Students for Life responded with their own fund-raiser called “Adopt an Abortion Abolitionist” in which pro-lifers adopt a specific group member and makes a donation to Students for Life whenever that person goes to the clinic to pray.
Adopt an Anti plans to use the funds they raise to help kill more babies.
Students for Life plan to use the funds to help support needy young mothers.
Planned Parenthood is pissed about the Fifth Circuit ordering immediate enforcement of Texas’ abortion safety law requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges at a local hospitalso women injured by botched abortions can get swift attention.
Calling this a “dangerous and extreme law”, Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, explained why they’re asking the US Supreme Courtto hear their appeal:
“Your rights … should not depend on your zip code.”
Well, even a broken clock is right twice a day. It just so happens I totally agree with Cecile, though obviously not in the way she means it.
I think your right to life should not depend on your “zip code” either.
In the same month that Republican Texas made abortion safer for women by requiring abortions be performed only by physicians with hospital privileges, Democrat California went the other way, empowering nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives and physician assistants to perform aspiration abortions.
Sources:
Nov 1, 2013: Effective Immediately, Appeals Court Allows Texas Abortion Law to Take Effect
October 31, 2013: The Federal 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans upheld most of the Texas law that provides more rigorous health and safety standards for abortion clinics.
Included in the provisions that went into effect immediately was the requirement that abortionists maintain local hospital privileges. About a third of Texas’ 41 abortion clinics are without hospital privileges and must stop providing abortions.
Among these is late-term abortionist Douglas Karpen, who was ratted out by four former employees for doing illegal, post-24-week abortions and murdering any babies born alive. Karpen remains under an open criminal investigation.
Also in the provisions that went into effect immediately … lowering the gestational age at which unborn Texans become “persons” deserving of protection under the law. The limit was 24-weeks. It is now 20-weeks. Texas lowered the limit based on evidence that unborn babies feel pain, making abortions unacceptably cruel.
Sources:
Nov 1, 2013: Effective Immediately, Appeals Court Allows Texas Abortion Law to Take Effect
Saturday, October 12, 2013: Pro-Abortion Thugs @ March for the Babies 2013 – Melbourne, Australia
Saturday, October 12, 2013: As police refused to help the peaceful marchers participating in a planned event, more than a thousand pro-abortion activisits mobbed, menaced and physically assaulted pro-life advocates and a member of Parliament at the Australia March for Life.
Bryan Kemper reported he and other pro-lifers were hit, stepped on, and had things have been thrown at him by pro-aborts, who blared loud heavy metal rock music, blew air horns and shrill whistles and pounded on drums to keep pro-lifers from being heard. They also took over the stage and ripped down the banners. Later, a member of Youth for Life Australia received this angry, shrill phone call: “I saw you at that march on Saturday, you’re nothing but a pro-life bigot, child f**ker, you molestering as***le, I know where you live and I’m coing to burn your house down.”
But one woman who came to participate in the anti-life protest said afterwards,“I came to this rally and watched both sides with curiosity. I have to admit I was planning to join the ‘other side’ and I was pretty excited, it was to be my first ever rally. I got the shock of my life when I saw how ugly they were and I had to sit down to stop myself trembling. I am having triplets, cancelling my abortion on Monday morning. Thank you. My heart has been changed.”
Sunday, October 6, 2013: On the eve of the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary
Faye Arellano stood quietly outside a Catholic church in Toronto, holding up a pro-life placard and a rosary. Her peaceful protest suddenly turned ugly when an unknown bystander grabbed her by the hair, smacked her to the ground, kicked and punched her repeatedly, then pulled a knife. A good samaritan helped shield her from the knife as police arrived and arrested the attacker. Faye, who sustained a concussion, says she lost her placard during the assault, but when she was rushed to hospital, she still had her rosary in her hand.“Holy Mary Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of death. Amen.”
Monday October 14, 2013: Another abortion clinic in Ohio has shut down
The Cleveland Center for Women’s Health, owned by late-term abortionist Martin Ruddock, is the third abortion clinic in Ohio to close its doors in the past six months. Ruddock has a history of running afoul of state health regulations. Upon inspection in 2006, Ruddock’s clinic was cited by the Ohio Department of Health and closed temporarily for failing to meet basic health standards, such as checking a patient’s vitals before performing a late-term abortion. The permanent shut-down is due in part to Ohio’s law prohibiting abortions late in pregnancy.
The “save the life of the mother” exception is a lie
Way back in 1972, when abortion’s legality was still being debated, the medical director of the Pittsburgh Planned Parenthood, Dr. Rose R. Middleman, was quoted as saying: “It’s extremely rare, if nonexistent, for a physician to have a medical reason to abort a woman in the 7th or 8th month.”
The reason is that no matter what, the mother must deliver the child, either via labor and delivery or via a C-section, The only difference between a late abortion and an early birth is whether the child is killed or cared for.
Dr. Middleman’s statement “It’s extremely rare, if nonexistent” was in 1972! Since then, medical science has advanced tremendously, with younger and younger premies surviving. My brother’s triplets were all 2 to 3 lbs and nearly died shortly after birth. They’re all college graduates now.
How much MORE true is it now that “late abortion to save the mother” is nothing but a political slogan?
After six months in the papacy, Pope Francis gave his first extensive interview. Liberals are wetting themselves over how he supposedly gave the GOP “what for” and the Democrat Party “two thumbs up.”
Sheesh. Only in Liberal Bubble World would the leader of a GLOBAL CHURCH take sides in the partisan politics of a single nation.
Leftists know so little about Christianity in general or about the Catholic Church in particular. For example, they’re crowing about how the Pope is supposedly backing off on abortion, gay marriage and birth control.
What he said was, “We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods.”
There’s no change in doctrine here.
What he said was that these issues don’t need to be discussed to the exclusion of all others. He was talking about the church not being too turned in on itself, too obsessed with rules. He said the church needs to be more of a field hospital, where people can feel cared for.
He also said, “I have never been a right-winger.”
I don’t know what “right-wing” means to an Argentinian, but I would hazard a guess it cannot be translated into American partisan politics to mean, “Jesus was a Democrat.”
Pope Francis has affirmed church teaching on abortion and euthanasia.
“We should commit ourselves to ‘eucharistic coherence’, that is, we should be conscious that people cannot receive holy communion and at the same time act or speak against the commandments, in particular when abortion, euthanasia, and other serious crimes against life and family are facilitated. This responsibility applies particularly to legislators, governors, and health professionals.”
“In Argentina, a child conceived by the rape of a mentally ill or retarded woman can be condemned to death.”
“In Argentina there is clandestine euthanasia. Social services pay up to a certain point; if you pass it, ‘die, you are very old’. Today, elderly people are discarded when, in reality, they are the seat of wisdom of the society. The right to life means allowing people to live and not killing, allowing them to grow, to eat, to be educated, to be healed, and to be permitted to die with dignity.”
Pope Francis has affirmed church teaching on homosexuality.
He has said that men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity and that every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided.
But he said their pursuit of equal rights is the devil’s work. He strongly opposed legislation introduced in 2010 by the Argentine Government to allow same-sex marriage, calling it a “real and dire anthropological throwback.” In a letter to the monasteries of Buenos Aires, he wrote:
“Let’s not be naïve, we’re not talking about a simple political battle; it is a destructive pretension against the plan of God. We are not talking about a mere bill, but rather a machination of the Father of Lies that seeks to confuse and deceive the children of God.”
Pope Francis has rejected Socialism:
Pope Francis spent a good deal of time in Argentina fighting against the modernist reforms of the government. Moreover, within the Church the spectre of liberation theologies that conflate Christ’s justice with Marxist principles was (and still is) a constant presence in Latin America.
“To those who are now promising to fix all your problems, I say, ‘Go and fix yourself.’ . . . Have a change of heart. Get to confession, before you need it even more! The current crisis will not be improved by magicians from outside the country and nor will [improvement] come from the golden mouth of our politicians, so accustomed to making incredible promises.”
Good comments from Twitchy:
Liberal rodents love to show off how little they know about religion and how bad they are at self-awareness.
The Holy Father is not an ally of the slime that ridiculed God.
God a Democrat? Lay off the opium, pal.
People have wondered how Latin American social democratic philosophies would play in the Vatican. It seems its more Libertarian than anything. De-emphasize rules. Emphasize core values. Jesus is our savior. The Church is here to help us know, love and serve God so we can be happy with Him forever.
Only self-obsessed libs think everything is about them.
I just stumbled on this organization and the first article I read was so touching and profoundly true that I want to share it with you.
Excerpt:
Last month, when I wrote about the value and worth of four-year-old Sophia, I wasn’t surprised that people were taken with her story. After all, the photos spoke for themselves. How could anyone not read her tale of initial neglect and starvation, to finally adoption and love, when there are before-and-after shots like these to illustrate?
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