Something For Church Going Catholic Obama Supporters to Consider

Posted on October 15, 2008
Filed Under Political Rantings, Religious Rantings |

I was startled when I drove by the home of a Catholic family in my neighborhood and saw an Obama sign in their front yard.  These people attend Mass regularly and send their kids to Catholic schools.  "What’s happened to them?" was my immediate thought.

Abortion should be THE issue for Catholic voters this year.  Of all the issues and positions of the candidates and their respective parties, abortion is the one that Holy Mother Church deems "intrinsically evil."  That is, evil in every instance, for all people and at all times.  One party platform promotes abortion and the other doesn’t.  Same for the two candidates for the presidency.  Catholics have to get this one right.  Lives depend on it.

Robert P. George has authored an article that any faithful Catholic thinking of voting for Barack Obama must read.  He objectively lays out the case against Obama and his unwavering support of unlimited abortion and beyond. 

…he [Obama] supports legislation that would repeal the Hyde Amendment, which protects pro-life citizens from having to pay for abortions that are not necessary to save the life of the mother and are not the result of rape or incest. The abortion industry laments that this longstanding federal law, according to the pro-abortion group NARAL, ”forces about half the women who would otherwise have abortions to carry unintended pregnancies to term and bear children against their wishes instead.” In other words, a whole lot of people who are alive today would have been exterminated in utero were it not for the Hyde Amendment. Obama has promised to reverse the situation so that abortions that the industry complains are not happening (because the federal government is not subsidizing them) would happen. That is why people who profit from abortion love Obama even more than they do his running mate.

It gets worse. Obama, unlike even many ”pro-choice” legislators, opposed the ban on partial-birth abortions when he served in the Illinois legislature and condemned the Supreme Court decision that upheld legislation banning this heinous practice. He has referred to a baby conceived inadvertently by a young woman as a ”punishment” that she should not endure. He has stated that women’s equality requires access to abortion on demand. Appallingly, he wishes to strip federal funding from pro-life crisis pregnancy centers that provide alternatives to abortion for pregnant women in need. There is certainly nothing ”pro-choice” about that.

We know that the federal and state pro-life laws and policies that Obama has promised to sweep away (and that John McCain would protect) save thousands of lives every year. Studies conducted by Professor Michael New and other social scientists have removed any doubt. Often enough, the abortion lobby itself confirms the truth of what these scholars have determined. Tom McClusky has observed that Planned Parenthood’s own statistics show that in each of the seven states that have FOCA-type legislation on the books, ”abortion rates have increased while the national rate has decreased.” In Maryland, where a bill similar to the one favored by Obama was enacted in 1991, he notes that ”abortion rates have increased by 8 percent while the overall national abortion rate decreased by 9 percent.” No one is really surprised. After all, the message clearly conveyed by policies such as those Obama favors is that abortion is a legitimate solution to the problem of unwanted pregnancies - so clearly legitimate that taxpayers should be forced to pay for it.

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One Response to “Something For Church Going Catholic Obama Supporters to Consider”

  1. Scott Smith on November 3rd, 2008 7:51 am

    Thanks for posting this! The choice is simple: fight this culture of death or embrace it. There’s so much more to this choice between candidates than a difference of opinion. As you say, it’s life and death.

    AMDG,

    Scott Smith
    New Roads, Louisiana

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