Seems sort of strange being counseled on credibility from someone who was a Protestant, then a Catholic, and now an atheist. Can’t you make up your mind? What are you going to be next week? A Buddhist?, or Muslim?
This is typical of most Pro-Choice people…they agree with the Death Penalty, and support abortion. A woman can choose to kill her baby, but not to use her body to stay off welfare (Prostitution) if she ‘chooses’.
I have the ultimate killer argument against abortion, and I always win. I tell people that if abortions had been legal in the 1940s and 50s, I wouldn’t be here. Now, it’s been a tough road getting to where I am now, but I am starting to accomplish things, and I have done a lot for many people. I do not think the decision as to whether I got the chance to use the time allotted to me to make the world a better place should’ve rested with a woman who didn’t want me in the first place. Then, I tell them to look me in then eye, and tell me that I didn’t have a right to live, and my whole life has been a mistake (by the way, I am a Dr. of Holistic Health (ND), a Red Cross Disaster Team Member, and an ordained Independent Minister).
Everyone who believes abortions is a woman’s ‘right’ should be required to watch “It’s A Wonderful Life”. No person can foretell the future. You have no idea what impact your child might have had on others. In my case, there are many people who would not be alive if not for my being alive, including my children, grandchildren, patients I have helped, people I have helped rescue, etc… You just can’t know, and it’s not your decision. As a woman, it might be God’s will that you suffer some to bring a new life into the world. It may stink, but we all have to do things that we don’t like from time to time.
Remember, Jesus also suffered, so that we could all live in God’s grace. What if He had just said “I don’t want to do this. It’s too hard…”? Then, we would all be victims of a Spiritual Abortion. How would these Pro-Choicers feel then?..Oh, I forgot, most of them are atheists, so they don’t believe in anything other than themselves to start with.
Deus vobiscum
As an atheist pro choicer (pro-abort to you fanatics who use that term), I don’t see pro lifers in Christian churches, including the Catholic church. (Full disclosure; I was raised Protestant; converted to Catholicism at 19 and have been an atheist for 25 years.)
Robert George, the architect of much of the USCCB’s position, was recently quoted in the “NY Times” as saying Catholics should not pursue issues like infant mortality, the death penalty, etc., because these are difficult to resolve.
What I see is hypocrisy. Abortion deals with sex and with women. Infant mortality deals with children, money and poverty. The elite who want rules made for women about sex refuse to acknowledge the US has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the western world. It’s easy to castigate women about sex. It’s more difficult to tell rich men they have to provide healthcare, decent wages, etc., for families so pregnant women can get healthcare. That’s why the Bishops fought healthcare. Not because of abortion, but because they’re inextricably linked to the right wing of the wealthy, elite GOP.
If there was CONSISTENCY in the Catholic position…if the Bishops fought against infant mortality as hard as they do abortion, THEN they’d have credibility. But the ‘prolife’ position is one of controlling women and sex, while ignoring the rich and powerful. (And, no, the new healthcare bill will not increase or fund abortions. That’s just another ploy by the elites.)
