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Yesterday’s post on Democrat support for abortion featured Pete Buttigieg and a Fordham University bioethics professor who was so distraught by the mayor’s pro-choice stance that he resigned from the board of Democrats for Life.
Last week, the Revd Franklin Graham was astonished to hear Bernie Sanders say that being ‘pro-choice’ — supporting abortion — was part and parcel of being a Democrat:
The son of the late Billy Graham rightly wondered where the ‘outcry’ was against such a stance.
The Breitbart article of February 12 linked in the tweet tells us that Graham sent a sharp warning about socialism before urging Christians to ‘wake up’ (emphases mine):
The evangelical leader went on to urge Christians to wake up to what is happening in the Democrat party and to take to heart their civic duty to vote.
“This is an example of why it is so important for people of faith to research who you vote for in every election and understand where they stand on issues that are important to you,” he said.
“I urge Christians to pray for our nation, our leaders, and the upcoming elections, from local to national. Make sure that you are registered to vote, otherwise we will lose our country,” he warned.
True.
This November, Republicans, the supporters of the rights of the unborn — and, yes, as God’s creation, the unborn do have rights — need to win back the House of Representatives and maintain, if not increase, their majority in the Senate.
I despair of notional Christians, including clergy, who are lukewarm on the subject of abortion. They laud the Democrats as the only politicians with ethics. The way it looks to many of us, even overseas, is that most Democrat politicians lack ethics, pure and simple. I am struggling to think of any in the House or Senate who deal honestly and fairly.
One thing is for sure: most Democrats no longer support life in the womb.
Where do Democrats stand in defending the rights of the unborn? Sadly, nowhere.
Yet, it has taken several years for this truth to dawn on lifetime Democrat voters.
It is unfortunate that Pete ‘Mayor Pete’ Buttigieg (pron. ‘Budd-uh-judge’) of South Bend, Indiana, is an Episcopalian. He puts the denomination to shame in his support of late-term abortion. Yet, many other Episcopalians — also Democrats — do, too:
On Tuesday, February 11, 2020, at least one Catholic Democrat saw the light, as Mayor Pete defended abortion until the bitter end. Interestingly, Mayor Pete’s dad was a left-wing professor at the University of Notre Dame who was a co-founder and past president of the International Gramsci Society. Who can make sense out of that? But I digress.
LifeSite News reported that the professor who termed Mayor Pete’s views as ‘the straw that broke this camel’s back’ is:
Charles Camosy, an associate professor of Theology at Fordham University, has also resigned from the board of Democrats for Life.
Camosy, who specializes in biomedical ethics, explained his reasons for his decision in an op ed he wrote for Thursday’s New York Post: the Democrats’ complete disregard for the unborn child.
Also (emphases mine):
… it was same-sex married Pete Buttigieg’s attitude to late-term abortion, aired last week on The View, that convinced Camosy that pro-life Democrats are “fighting a losing battle” in convincing their party to respect their position. Buttigieg had indicated that he didn’t think the government should have any say regarding late-term abortion or post-birth infanticide.
“The straw that broke this camel’s back was Pete Buttigieg’s extremism,” Camosy wrote.
“Here was a mainstream Democratic candidate suggesting, at one point, that abortion is OK up to the point the baby draws her first breath.”
He concluded that if the party was “willing to go all-in on the most volatile issue of our time with a position held by only 13 percent of the population, it was time to take no for an answer.”
Camosy also predicted that, thanks to its pro-abortion “extremism,” the Democratic Party will lose the next election.
We can but hope. If they win, they will have cheated; of that, I’m sure.
Dr Camosy does not think he will be able to vote Republican, though:
“My broader values mean I can’t vote Republican, however, and this makes me one of many millions of Americans for whom our political duopoly doesn’t work,” he wrote.
That’s too bad. Opening up other minor yet established parties does not work, either. The British proved that in their December 12, 2019 election.
LifeSite News has more of what Camosy wrote for the New York Post, all of it worthwhile reading. It also quotes Mayor Pete’s views for The View.
In closing, this is what Camosy had to say in his op-ed about the Democrats’ stance on late-term abortion:
Camosy asked them to participate in a thought experiment in which they suppose that “hundreds of thousands of children are being killed each year in horrific ways,” either because they have Down syndrome, or because their grandparents think their parents are too young, or because an abusive partner demands it.
“And then suppose a political party claimed this killing was a social good. Just another kind of health care. Something to shout about with pride,” the ethicist asked.
“This party, it should go without saying, would be unsupportable,” he concluded.
Just so.
Sounds a lot like eugenics, doesn’t it?
More will follow on the Democrats’ views on abortion.
On Friday, January 24, 2020, the thousands gathering for the annual March for Life witnessed an historic event, an address to them in person by a US president.
Donald Trump delivered a brief address to the 47th March for Life in Washington, DC. None of his predecessors have ever done that:
Here he is, arriving on stage. These short videos are worth watching:
Here are a few highlights from his speech:
Read more in the transcript of his speech.
Donald Trump is the greatest pro-life president ever:
Some say he is America’s most important Christian voice:
Even the Vatican took notice:
The March for Life receives very little news coverage from the mainstream outlets. This is a great time-lapse photography video of the march taking place:
The designated thoroughfares were full of pro-life supporters:
Here are the lucky thousands closest to the stage:
So many Americans are grateful for the gift of their own lives. Adoption is very important:
However, the media would prefer that you not see that. This is their line on the unborn:
Wrong:
In the 1980s, President Reagan made an excellent point:
It is most encouraging to see the March for Life go from strength to strength, especially among younger Americans.
It was also great to see President Trump appear before them to speak. He is the only president with enough mettle so to do.
May God continue to bless everyone involved in the March for Life.
May He also continue to bless President Trump, who has faced four years of relentless opposition, impeachment being the latest.
When I saw the title of the video below that Catholic commentator Michael Voris made, I thought, ‘Uh-huh’.
Whilst I agree that President Trump is fighting a battle of Good v Evil, I’m a bit weary of seeing it online every day, as if it were something new.
In the end, I gave in and watched it.
This is one of the best videos you will see on Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court and anti-Trumpers. It’s only seven-and-a-half minutes long:
Voris begins by discussing the pro-life convictions of Evangelical Protestant clergy in the United States, whom, he says, defend life in the womb wholeheartedly. By contrast, he points out that Catholic bishops are silent on the subject and promote causes like climate change and social justice instead.
Yes!
How is it that more Catholics have not yet become Protestants? Surely, the past decade or so has seen the gravest crisis the Church has faced since the Reformation. Perhaps they are afraid. Catholics — and I was one — are told from the time they are small children that they must never become Protestant because they will go to hell. I have friends and family who still believe this, even though they no longer attend Mass.
Then we have Francis in the Vatican, the pontiff who cannot muster a Christian blessing any more.
Gloria.tv has the story, complete with video:
Francis again refused to give a Papal blessing during a November 30 audience for a summit of 3,500 children of the international environmental World Summit “I can.”
At the end of the audience he asked to silently pray for one another.
Then Francis added to “ask God to bless us all. Amen.” He did not invoke God, nor speak as a priest in his name, nor make a sign of the cross …
That man is spiritually sick.
But I digress.
Back now to Michael Voris’s video.
Michael Voris says that the Democrats want to impeach Trump primarily because they fear that, if he stays in office, the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v Wade. He says that this is the reason the Left talk so much about Ruth Bader Ginsburg. If she goes, the next Supreme Court Justice is likely to be a young (relatively speaking) conservative.
Therefore, according to Democrat thinking, Trump has to go now before he can make that eventual nomination. If he remains in office — which, I think we all agree he will, even Michael Voris — and gets a new conservative Justice to replace Ginsburg when the time comes, then, the chances are likely that the Supreme Court could overturn Roe v Wade.
Voris says that, if such a vote took place now, Justice Roberts would have the deciding vote, and he would be unlikely to want to be in that position. (Roberts can be rather wet when his is the deciding vote.)
However, should there be another conservative Justice, then Roberts could vote against Roe v Wade more easily.
Voris then explores the sacrifice of children via abortion, saying that the Left are in league with Satan.
When you hear him explain it and watch the graphics, it sounds very plausible.
He ends by pointing out the irony of an ex-playboy billionaire being the most pro-life American president in living memory.
I couldn’t agree more.
On Sunday, October 27, 2019, Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden was denied Holy Communion at Mass in South Carolina because he has publicly supported abortion.
Fox News reported that Biden, a self-described ‘practising Catholic’, had no comment on being refused the Sacrament:
“I’m not going to discuss that,” Biden told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell in an on-air phone interview on Tuesday.
Biden and his wife attended Mass at the St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence during a campaign stop, but he was denied Holy Communion — seen by Catholics as receiving the body and blood of Jesus Christ — after the pastor took issue with Biden’s support of a woman’s right to an abortion.
The pastor of St Anthony’s was quite open about the refusal:
“Sadly, this past Sunday, I had to refuse Holy Communion to former Vice President Joe Biden,” Rev. Robert Morey said in a statement on Monday. “Holy Communion signifies we are one with God, each other and the Church. Our actions should reflect that. Any public figure who advocates for abortion places himself or herself outside of Church teaching. As a priest, it is my responsibility to minister to those souls entrusted to my care, and I must do so even in the most difficult situations. I will keep Mr. Biden in my prayers.”
Good for him. It was unlikely to have been an easy decision to make, considering the former vice president’s status as a political celebrity.
A Catholic pastor, Fr Ryan of St Mary’s in Huntingburg, Indiana, explains the finer points of refusing Holy Communion:
However, Biden is on public record for his support of abortion ‘rights’. Note in particular the first tweet below. The Scripture citation is 1 Corinthians 11:29:
Every Catholic knows what the rules are for Holy Communion.
Joe Biden should have learned from John Kerry in 2004.
That said, perhaps supporting abortion means more to the two of them than receiving Communion.
Now there’s something to think about.
On Friday, June 21, 2019, the UK’s Court of Protection ordered a mentally disabled Nigerian woman in her 20s to abort her 22 week old baby.
Fortunately, the following Monday, the Court of Appeal reversed that decision:
The world had followed this story, and police are still investigating the circumstances of the woman’s pregnancy.
Going back to June 21, the Catholic News Agency reported:
The Court of Protection handles cases involving individuals judged to lack the mental capacity to make decisions for themselves.
The woman, who cannot been publicly identified, has been described as “in her twenties,” and is under the care of an NHS trust, part of the UK’s National Health Service.
Doctors at the trust wished to abort her pregnancy and argued that, due to her diminished mental capacity, the abortion would be less traumatic for the woman than giving birth, especially if the baby would then be placed in foster care.
The woman’s mother made clear to doctors and the court that she would assume care of her grandchild.
The woman is believed to have the mental capacity of a grade school-age child. She is reportedly Catholic, and her mother is Nigerian.
It is unknown if the pregnancy was conceived consensually, and police are investigating the circumstances of conception.
The woman’s mother, reported to be a former midwife, registered her absolute opposition to the abortion citing the Catholic faith of herself and her daughter. A social worker who cares for the woman also disagreed that she should be forced to have an abortion.
The judge said she did not believe the woman understood what it meant to have a baby.
The Washington Examiner had more on the story that day (emphases mine):
In her ruling for the Court of Protection on June 21, Justice Nathalie Lieven said, “I am acutely conscious of the fact that for the State to order a woman to have a termination where it appears that she doesn’t want it is an immense intrusion … [but] I have to operate in [her] best interests, not on society’s views of termination.”
“Immense intrusion” is a remarkable understatement. If the government can force you to abort your child, is there any limit to its power?
The pregnant mother and her family do not want an abortion, but she is under the care of a division of the U.K.’s National Health Service — thus why this matter has gone to court and why they have not already gotten one. But because the pregnant mother is mentally challenged, Lieven said, “I think she would like to have a baby in the same way she would like to have a nice doll,” completely dismissing the mother’s desire for her baby.
Barrister John McKendrick, who is leading the legal team for the pregnant woman’s mother, says the court has “no proper evidence” that having an abortion will be beneficial to the pregnant mother. “Their evidence is premised on a narrow clinical view. The application must be dismissed,” McKendrick said. The pregnant woman’s mother has added that abortion strongly violates her family’s Catholic values and that she would raise her grandchild herself.
I have no idea why the judge, a woman herself, wanted an abortion instead of adoption. Could she not bear to see the baby go to a good home?
A Canadian CEO considered the term ‘right to choose’:
I have no doubt that millions of prayers ascended on this future mother’s behalf.
As is so often the case with prayer, the good Lord heard us and answered our pleas according to His will.
On June 24, Sky News reported on the welcome reversal (emphasis in the original):
Doctors must not be allowed to perform an abortion on a pregnant mentally-ill woman, Court of Appeal judges ruled on Monday.
This is a marvellous result, especially for the people of United Kingdom.
Thank you, Lord, for answering our prayers! Please bless this lady and her mother in the weeks and months ahead. Please also bless the child once s/he is born. To God be all glory, now and forever! Amen.
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Below is a photo of an aborted nine-week old human.
You’ll have to click ‘Show Media’ to see it. Note the string of hideous comments that follow. I’ve included one of them:
Paul Joseph Watson saw it and retweeted it:
Agreed.
Someone replied to Watson with this moving photograph …
… which garnered these replies:
It seems we have not seen enough photographs of aborted babies at various times of their development.
If we had, various countries would have limited the time period for legal abortion.
Pray with me, please, that women will stop using abortion as a means of birth control. If a woman can afford nail jobs, she can afford birth control.
The following tweet about an aborted baby is utterly saddening.
Not only was the life of this member of God’s creation terminated, but the comments in the photo compendium are absolutely vile. Take a look at ‘Garbage Humans’. Click on the image to read all the comments:
Words fail me, especially seeing as women — potential mothers — are saying such disgusting things.
Fortunately, others commented sensibly:
Please join me in praying for human life, at all stages of development.
God has a purpose for every child conceived, and it is not abortion.
The pro-choice tweeters commenting on the following photos accuse Paul Joseph Watson of lying about the survival of a prematurely born baby.
I am delighted that the child’s mother contributed to the conversation. Her daughter, pictured below, is now 15 years old:
This is something upon which to reflect as we see a push in Democrat-dominated states for murdering children at birth.
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