Bishop Conley’s article, despite its obvious flaws, is very interesting. I do wish, however, that he had not used an allusion to the Holocaust. It is inappropriate—as it usually is-- and diminishes the victims at Auschwitz and all other victims. “Stirring the pot” with such methods is beneath the Bishop, and unfortunately casts the Church in rather an unfavorable light.
Are you diminishing the victims of abortion and infanticide? Over 57 million babies the last four decades in the U.S., hundreds of millions throughout the world, deemed unworthy to have a right to live, have been exterminated with a government stamp of approval. Did you know that approx. 83% of Planned Parenthood clinics are in minority neighborhoods? Did you know that according to the Center for Disease Control, almost one third of all African American babies are aborted? That isn’t a holocaust? And most journalists remain as silent as they can get away with.
Over six million people of Jewish descent, and over one million non-Jews, died at the Nazi-run death camps, because they were classified as too unworthy to be given a right to live. The sanctity of their lives were disregarded.
In absolutely no way did Bishop Conley “diminish the victims” of the Holocaust in Germany. He fully understands and acknowledges the horrors they experienced, and the reluctance of the media and of Americans to acknowledge or understand what was going on in the Nazi-run death camps.
Dr. Josef Mangele, called the “angel of death” at Auschwitz, fully subscribed to the “master race” philosophy of the Nazis and had full authority by the Nazi German government to experiment on his subjects, maiming or killing them, for his research. For his study on twins, most of his victims were Jewish and Gypsy children. Mengele performed sterilizations and abortions, and promoted the eugenics movement, which had become popular during the Depression as a result of the activism and financial support of Margaret Sanger of the U.S., who was the founder of Planned Parenthood.
When Mangele escaped to Argentina, he made his living preventing babies from being born, even though abortion was illegal. By the way Mangele wasn’t the only abortionist in the death camps. Another SS officer, Vilis Kruze, immigrated to the U.S. and worked as an abortionist for Kaiser Permanente in Ohio and Hawaii.
The American press was reluctant to report on the persecution and extermination of the Jews. Even when the U.S. government issued a formal report about the death camps. the most prominent papers minimized it, relegating the news to the inside pages rather than the front page.
To point out the parallel between the Holocaust in Germany seven decades ago and the Holocaust of the Unborn these past 40+ decades is appropriate. The comparison did not originate with Bishop Conley. I have read other articles and commentaries in past years which referred to the Abortion Holocaust, including one by Father Frank Pavone, the director of Priests for Life. I do not know what “obvious flaws” in the article you are referring to.
Like Kermit Gosnell, Josef Mengele Was an Abortionist on Trial (commentary)
lifenews.com/2013/05/04/like-kermit-gosnell-josef-mengele-was-an-abortionist-on-trial/
How Dare You Compare Abortion to The Holocaust or Slavery? (commentary)
standtrue.com/how-dare-you-compare-abortion-to-the-holocaust-or-slavery/