He is a spectacular liar. I wouldn’t give him even a little bit of consideration/sympathy unlike many conservative Catholics. He is schemingly courting Catholics so that he can grab our votes. I will never ever let him grab mine.
I can’t see this ever happening. For one thing, it is not true the the Church has de-emphasized abortion. This is simply not something the Church has done or said, your perception not withstanding. This incident was not about abortion. It did not happen at the pro-life rally.
I think the problem is deep and systemic. Most have not temptation to get an abortion, or have someone that needs an abortion. Focusing on sins that one does not commit is the path of an easy Christianity. It is an escape from the harder problems where people do have sin of envy, pride, or greed. Pope Francis, among others, challenge us to get past this habit of working only on the sins of others, and look to ourselves, our own values, and see which have we negotiated on.
He appointed Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, likely prolife justices where Obama appointed two pro-abortion justices. He let the Little Sisters off the hook of the HHS Mandate Obama imposed on them. He reinstated the Mexico City policy after Obama repudiated it. With a record like that, (and more) Trump doesn’t need to “grab” my vote. I give it willingly.
One does not have to have an abortion or procure one to promote it. It’s a lot easier than that, just one checked name on a ballot will do that.
Exactly, and this is what Trump wrote about in “The Art of the Deal”, whereas he basically says that he’d do just about anything and everything to “seal the deal”. He has been Pro-choice almost all his life, so I’m highly suspicious that he had a true change of heart.
Pope Francis was very critical of Trump’s proposed border wall but I don’t recall him taking Clinton to task for her pro-abortion stand. The same was true for US Bishops. /shrug.
I think this is a good example of how the Church is de-emphasizing abortion as a pro-life issue. If abortion is just one of a basket of “pro-life” issues, then the Church can justify supporting pro-abortion candidates, like Hillary Clinton, because, on balance, she cares about more of the items (climate change, immigration, “universal healthcare”, etc.) in the “pro-life” basket than Trump and his supporters, who only care about stopping abortion so they can implement their “Handmaiden’s Tale” agenda of making women slaves…
I don’t think there’s any real likelihood of the Church doing this. Individual churchmen, however, are sometimes another story.
I hope you’re right, and I’m wrong. I really do.
This is a cheap shop at pro-lifers. You are absolutely and entirely WRONG about this. It makes me furious that this meme is still being touted. You are committing a calumny here.
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The president signed legislation that allowed states to remove Title X funding from Planned Parenthood over its provision of abortion. Under the Trump administration, the Justice Department announced that it is formally investigating the abortion group for possible involvement in the illegal fetal-tissue-trafficking industry.
Here is what government programs do:
This is a good reason why lack of evidence is not evidence that something is lacking. I could pull a lot of quotes by Pope Francis condemning abortion, and that is the issue, not Clinton. She was not an elected official and she did not make a media splash. but abortion has been, still is, and will be, harshly condemned.
I didn’t say it’s status as a “mortal evil” has changed, I said it has been de-emphasized. It is now just now one issue in a basket of issues, like climate change, immigration, and universal healthcare, that are now included under the “pro-life” rubric. I don’t think this is arguable. What is my opinion is that at some point opposition to abortion will be dropped in favor of combating climate change (which requires a reduction in the number of humans) or universal healthcare (which will include abortion as a right).