Obama marks Roe vs. Wade anniversary

[jediliz]

would he celebrate if we still had slavery in this country? NO.

He doesn’t understand what Abortion does. I wish there was a way to make him watch the Silent Scream and the Eclipes of Reason, two videoes that show an actual abortion taking palce.

How can “catholics” STILL VOTE FOR HIM…

 

[dixieagle]

It makes me very sad and angry - though not surprised - to hear our President mark the Roe v. Wade anniversary in this way.

When in grad school, my daughter had a professor who had worked alongside Sarah Weddington, the pro-abortion lawyer infamous for Roe v. Wade. This professor told the class that “she hopes Sarah won’t be alive when Roe v. Wade is overturned”.

I think that the pro-abortion side sees the writing on the wall, and there is a turning of the tide; I can see it among many young people. Here is a moving story from America about one young woman’s transformation from pro-abortion atheist to pro-life Catholic.

americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=10904

There is hope!

 

[TraditonRules]

Can you be Catholic and pro choice??

Take that to the logical conclusion then, can a Catholic vote for Obama.

Obama is married to planned parenthood

 

[theidler]

“And as we remember this historic anniversary, we must also continue our efforts to ensure that our daughters have the same rights, freedoms, and opportunities as our sons to fulfill their dreams.”

That is, if they end up even making it out of the womb alive…

 

[_Abyssinia]

The way you show your disapproval at Obama’s comments and his pro abortion extremism is by your vote by 2012 - vote for whoever the Republican nominee is, they are all pro life, they would be have far more respect for life in office than Obama does.

Hundreds of thousands of people are marching in Washington D.C. today! Reversing roe vs wade is seen as a civil rights issue for the youth. Obama - you are thoroughly out of touch.

 

[DexUK]

Can you be Catholic and pro choice??

Take that to the logical conclusion then, can a Catholic vote for Obama.

Obama is married to planned parenthood

If given the unavailability of any realistic option of voting for a political candidate opposed to abortion, one should either not vote or choose that candidate who best meets the necessary requirements in other moral areas.

I.e. if there are two candidates standing for President and neither of them will either ban abortion or stand any chance of doing so, then I’d say you’d be free to vote for either one of them as best they fit the rest of the moral choices available. You’d probably still have to hold your nose while doing so though…

 

[lakotak]

I read that 51% of the Catholic vote will support Obama’s re-election.

Yes, and most of them will walk right up to the altar and receive Our Lord without hesitation, still claiming to be true Catholics to the faith. I can’t imagine how.

 

[_Abyssinia]

Today, hundreds of pro-lifers are gathering in Washington, D.C. for the March for Life, and the Republican presidential candidates are taking notice. In today’s WSJ, Rick Santorum replays his “fight for life”:

This anniversary is both a day of sadness for the more than 40 million babies who have been killed since Roe v. Wade and a day of hope as more and more Americans embrace a culture of life and as more and more young people march in Washington and around the country in support of life.

Read the whole op-ed here. Meanwhile, Mitt Romney released following statement:

In great number, men and women from across our country are gathered today on the Mall in Washington in the cause of defending the rights of the unborn. In their ranks are many who remember the day when Roe v. Wade was announced. Also among them are thousands of young Americans born after 1973 whose idealism and good hearts will continue to represent the passion and resolve of the pro-life movement. All of them are marching today in the spirit of compassion and mercy, and I share their commitment to laws that protect the innocent and uphold a culture of life. We take heart that we are winning this issue step by step, and I look forward to working arm and arm with the pro-life movement until the wrong of Roe v. Wade has been set right.

Finally, Newt Gingrich released the following, considerably longer statement:

Thank you for bearing witness today to the incomparable dignity of every human life, born and unborn.

And thank you for your commitment to change hearts and minds and laws in defense of the unborn.

I join you in this commitment.

It is a testament to the American spirit and the vision of our founding fathers that almost forty years after Roe. v.Wade, millions of Americans have grown stronger and not weaker in their conviction that the words of the Declaration of Independence are in fact true, that all are created with unalienable rights, including the unborn.

Our American history represents an ongoing effort to fulfill the vision of the Declaration.

It is important to pause today to consider why the pro-life cause is winning and why we will one day see an end to abortion in America.

Americans know in the core of their souls that the idea that we can say one class of humanity — whether the sick, the poor, the elderly, or the unborn — is less valuable than others, is fundamentally opposed to every value that we cherish and that makes us who we are.

The truth that every person is created equal in the eyes of God, with equal value and worth and equal right to life, liberty, and the pursuit his or her own future and destiny, is at the root of our system of law and government. Americans know this, and slowly but surely they are coming to terms with the irreconcilable reality of legalized abortion in our nation.

A prominent commentator recently wrote, “That the pro-life movement is bigger is a given. It’s also younger, increasingly entrepreneurial, more strategic in its thinking, better organized, tougher in dealing with allies and enemies alike, almost wildly ambitious, and more relentless than ever.”

Your marching today is evidence of that relentlessness.

My commitment to you is twofold: first, to continue supporting your work to defend the rights of the unborn, and second, if elected President, to advance pro-life legislation, appoint judges who will stay true to the meaning of the Constitution, work to bring about an end to judicial tyranny, defend religious freedom, and work with allies in Congress and throughout the country who desire to bring about a day in which America restores legal protection to all unborn human life.

Specifically, on day one of my administration, I will sign an executive order reinstatingRonald Reagan’s Mexico City policy that prevents taxpayer dollars from being used to fund abortions overseas.

I will also oppose federal funding of any research that destroys a human embryo.

I will work with Congress to repeal Obamacare, and will defund Planned Parenthood so that no taxpayer dollars are being used to fund abortions– but rather use that money to promote adoption and other pro-family policies.

I will also support Congress enacting pro-life legislation that would grant protections under the 14th Amendment to the unborn, including legislation that would define personhood as beginning at conception.

There was once a similar battle waged in America over whether the rights in our Constitution applied to all Americans, or only those selected or favored by the political class. It was during the battle to overturn the deeply engrained institution of slavery, something considered universally repugnant to us all today, that Abraham Lincoln said the following:

We will make converts day by day…  We will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries.  And unless truth be a mockery and justice a hollow lie, we will be in the majority after a while.  This battle … [will] be fought out on principle.

Together, let us continue to work for the day when there will be no abortions for anyreason, and that every unborn child will be welcomed into life and protected by law — from conception until natural death. May God bless each of you in your efforts to bring about this day.

Thank You.

nationalreview.com/corner/288907/candidates-celebrate-march-life-brian-bolduc

 

[Scott_Lafrance]

Yes, and most of them will walk right up to the altar and receive Our Lord without hesitation, still claiming to be true Catholics to the faith. I can’t imagine how.

“Therefore, whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord”

 

[TraditonRules]

What’s really sad, Obama thinks himself a Christian. As do the various others in his administration who vote for programs that continue the systematic killing of the innocents and then they attend church services and Mass on the weekend.

I am sure Obama fully well knows he is not a Christian, he has never belonged to a Christian Church only particpates for public approval.

Rev Wright his 20yr preacher was not Christian denomination, it was a pagan marxist organization

 

[Langdell]

EXACTLY. I asked this is another thread on this same news bit.

I wish someone to whom the President must publicly answer would ask him why he says we should “reduce the need for abortions” after he’s just said we should “fight to protect the right to have them”??

Ditto.

 

[Scott_Lafrance]

I am sure Obama fully well knows he is not a Christian, he has never belonged to a Christian Church only particpates for public approval.

Rev Wright his 20yr preacher was not Christian denomination, it was a pagan marxist organization

I wouldn’t call it a pagan organization. Alot of what black theology proposes cannot square with orthodox Christianity, but it isn’t pagan…now, against the marxist charge…

 

[lakotak]

Scott_Lafrance:
Scott,

I hope they will come to see the TRUTH, before the TRUTH sees them and it is too late.

 

[TraditonRules]

I wouldn’t call it a pagan organization. Alot of what black theology proposes cannot square with orthodox Christianity, but it isn’t pagan…now, against the marxist charge…

I don’t know how screaming in a church sermon “chickens are comin home to roost” is nothing but paganism

 

[Scott_Lafrance]

Scott,

I hope they will come to see the TRUTH, before the TRUTH sees them and it is too late.

I agree. Jesus died for the sins of all the whole world. Any group that serves the needs of only a select group of people by that very fact put themselves at odds with the Gospel.

 

[_Abyssinia]

I read that 51% of the Catholic vote will support Obama’s re-election.

Where?

Devout Catholics will not vote for Obama.

 

[jilly4ski]

Where?

Devout Catholics will not vote for Obama.

There are Catholics on this forum who proudly say they will vote for Obama and that abortion isn’t a big enough issue to prevent their vote, because of the supposedly other great things he has done. Just go read the world news threads.

 

[irishpatrick]

upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/01/22/Obama-marks-Roe-vs-Wade-anniversary/UPI-20031327260045/

Obama’s comments should be all any practicing Catholic needs to know in order to vote for Rick Santorum.

 

[Not_Sure_1]

There are Catholics on this forum who proudly say they will vote for Obama and that abortion isn’t a big enough issue to prevent their vote, because of the supposedly other great things he has done. Just go read the world news threads.

What good things?

 

[Scott_Lafrance]

What good things?

He won the Nobel Prize for Peace!