Actually, the “four years before this, and the four years before those”, we had the most pro-life President in American history, but were still unable to get Roe v. Wade overturned. Just keeping it real. I’m completely with you on the spirit of your post. We pray, make alms, love and help one another. We ALSO continue our presence in front of the abortion clinics. Pray for our Bishops to do all in their power to help us fight evil, and give us direction.
Yours in Christ,
Steven
Ah, but we DID get steps in that direction: laws promoted intended to provide the basis for challenging Roe vs. Wade, and, more importantly, 2 Supreme Court Justices who are likely to favor overturning RvW if given the chance.
I just want to make sure people aren’t hiding behind the fantasy that they can ignore the Pro-Life stance of a candidate if that candidate (or his party) fails to “overturn Roe v Wade.”
Nonsense. It’s not that simple. To overturn RvW we have to have 1. Laws and cases that go through the courts with NEW arguments sufficient to reach the Supreme Court with a basis for challenging and overturning RvW. A president or a Congress can’t just “overturn” RvW.
- We need SCOTUS justices who will actually come down on the side of overturning RvW.
- OR we need a Constitutional Amendment that will define life in such a way as to outlaw abortion. But that’s a fantasy right now. You don’t propose a Constitutional Amendment when you know it will get shot down terribly. You need a 2/3rd or 3/4 majority to pass the amendment, depending on whether you go by legislature or states. You MIGHT, with God’s grace, have a bare majority right now, but nowhere near enough to pass such a thing. So if it were to be proposed, you’d only have a major setback to the Pro-Life movement as it was defeated.
That leaves us with steps 1 and 2–BOTH of which our 43rd president advanced. So don’t buy the nonsense that he didn’t do anything.
Other Pro-Life victories that happened under the last Pro-Life president and were reversed by our Pro-Death president:
A. The Mexico City policy, whereby the US would not provide any funding for abortions internationally. Put in place by Bush 43, reversed by the current administration.
B. Funding only on existing embryonic stem cell lines. This was a hedge for Bush 43, not a full win, but not as bad as what the party currently in power has been trying to do.
C. A favorable environment for the discussion of Pro-Life views, leading to much legislation passed among the many states to chip away at and reduce abortions.
Meanwhile, under our current Pro-Death president, we see 2 more Supreme Court justices who would practically rather die than overturn RvW, and an administration that will stop at nothing to defend, fund, and promote the agenda of Planned Parenthood, including through advancing Obamacare $1 a month premium funding for abortions, school clinics for in-school abortion and sex-education, the HHS mandate, etc.
The point?
Pro-Life candidates matter!
Whether RvW is overturned or not is not the only play in the game!
In fact, had we elected a pro-life president, we may well have had the Supreme Court majority we needed to set the stage for overturning RvW!!!
And we’re faced with that choice again in this election–2-3 more justices may be appointed by the next president!
It is for this reason if for no other that it is OUR FAULT as Catholics that abortion is legal and promoted in this country. There are enough Catholics in this country to swing an election if only 10% of us voted Pro-Life instead of against life!
Sorry, had to rant on that. I don’t know if the poster I quoted intended it this way, but I hate to see people trying to justify supporting pro-death candidates and parties just because the pro-life ones haven’t managed to overturn RvW.
As for what we will do? Others have said it: Pray, Fast, Work, Love, Sacrifice. God is the God of Justice. He will receive these little ones to His breast and comfort them. He may even be allowing our dying culture to get so bad that more of us may wake up and listen to Him, knowing that it is easy for us as a society to become complacent if we are not faced with something catastrophically bad enough to catch our attention.
I pray that it doesn’t come to that. But we know that Jesus wins in the end, and he will make all things right for those who follow him faithfully and endure to the end.
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