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Wirraway
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I sometimes wonder if blahgs like that are written by agents provacateurs to erode support for abortion. I hope so in this case.
re the “ambassadors from God” comment, my response to that – based on personal experience – is** no**.
re the “ambassadors from God” comment, my response to that – based on personal experience – is** no**.
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Sam_Maloney
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What are we talking about, exactly? I clicked the link, scanned the first few posts, didn’t see anything that was a new low-- it was just more of the same.
This is exactly where the abortion debate is moving. In the old days, the pro-aborts would talk about the tough cases, the non-viable infant, the rape victim, the 13 year old impregnated by her own father.
But when you looked at the numbers, it was clear that these were only a tiny fraction of the abortions performed. As ultra sound became common, there seemed to be a genuine support in mainstream America to limit aborition-- the born alive act, the partial birth ban, the baning in South Dakota.
Polls show that most Americans would ban abortion in all but these tough cases, which scares the heck out of PP and other members of the billion dollar industry.
So the pro-aborts have changed to this new, seemingly extreme stance, enshrining abortion as an absolute right. They pointedly ignore that no other right is absolute and without restriction.
At most, this represents a change in tactics, not philosophy, which has always boiled down to radical individual autonomy. It even re-inforces Church teaching in a weird way, in that it puts every abortion on equal footing: either every abortion is wrong [Catholic], or no abortion is wrong [Planned Parenthood].
How do we, as pro-lifers, respond? Is it better to keep nibbling away at the edges, of do we confront them head on? Which tactic will yeild the best results?
Seems to me we ought to continue to fight the small battles as they occur while pressing the philosophical case that murder isn’t acceptible. We need to keep making the case that ‘bioligical independence’ is not an adequete definition of life since none of us are completely independent.
Just as the unborn depends on his mother, the city dweller depends on the farmer, and the farmer likely depends on the worker at the electric or gas company to keep him from freezing on a winter night.
The world would very quickly become a better place if our interdependence were recognized and celebrated. A much better focus than today’s ‘diversity’ obsession.
This is exactly where the abortion debate is moving. In the old days, the pro-aborts would talk about the tough cases, the non-viable infant, the rape victim, the 13 year old impregnated by her own father.
But when you looked at the numbers, it was clear that these were only a tiny fraction of the abortions performed. As ultra sound became common, there seemed to be a genuine support in mainstream America to limit aborition-- the born alive act, the partial birth ban, the baning in South Dakota.
Polls show that most Americans would ban abortion in all but these tough cases, which scares the heck out of PP and other members of the billion dollar industry.
So the pro-aborts have changed to this new, seemingly extreme stance, enshrining abortion as an absolute right. They pointedly ignore that no other right is absolute and without restriction.
At most, this represents a change in tactics, not philosophy, which has always boiled down to radical individual autonomy. It even re-inforces Church teaching in a weird way, in that it puts every abortion on equal footing: either every abortion is wrong [Catholic], or no abortion is wrong [Planned Parenthood].
How do we, as pro-lifers, respond? Is it better to keep nibbling away at the edges, of do we confront them head on? Which tactic will yeild the best results?
Seems to me we ought to continue to fight the small battles as they occur while pressing the philosophical case that murder isn’t acceptible. We need to keep making the case that ‘bioligical independence’ is not an adequete definition of life since none of us are completely independent.
Just as the unborn depends on his mother, the city dweller depends on the farmer, and the farmer likely depends on the worker at the electric or gas company to keep him from freezing on a winter night.
The world would very quickly become a better place if our interdependence were recognized and celebrated. A much better focus than today’s ‘diversity’ obsession.
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lizaanne
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Take a look at today’s Vortex on this article - he hits it right on the head:
www.realcatholictv.com
~Liza
www.realcatholictv.com
~Liza
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Thobe
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I do not understand some of the arguements made in that article.
A woman may have control over her body, and of this I am no opposition, but in an abortion she is not controlling her own body.
She is not killing the body of herself, but that of another, her son or daughter, our brother or sister. Pro choice is a lie, the baby has not a choice in the matter. And the baby is who it is all about.
A woman may have control over her body, and of this I am no opposition, but in an abortion she is not controlling her own body.
She is not killing the body of herself, but that of another, her son or daughter, our brother or sister. Pro choice is a lie, the baby has not a choice in the matter. And the baby is who it is all about.
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St_Francis
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The idea is, as Ruth Bader-Ginsberg pointed out recently, that pregnancy is a form of slavery of the mother for the child.
Yeah, pretty sick. Invite someone and when he or she shows up, kill them.
(I stopped responding to blogs after seeing that the only responses they publish are those they can use for their own nefarious purposes.)
Yeah, pretty sick. Invite someone and when he or she shows up, kill them.
(I stopped responding to blogs after seeing that the only responses they publish are those they can use for their own nefarious purposes.)
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