Posted by
T N McCoy on Thursday, May 10, 2007 7:14:36 PM
The Pope is entirely correct is his comments and professions as recently noted by the press. At first, he was talking about Mexican politicians, but the sense of the subject was obviously meant to lead to the Liberal pro-choice Democrat politicians in the United States.
Democrats/Liberals [they all seem to be the same for the most part] who claim to be Catholics---even the much touted 'devout ones'---but still offer the opening that abortion is okay for others, aren't Catholics. They've left the Church, and the Pope is correct in officially calling them self-excommunicated.
And before the arguments get started, the Pope's declarations are not pronounced to interfere in the domestic political meanderings of a sovereign country. He has the right to communicate the Church's teachings to the faithful---or in this case the unfaithful. The politicians draw his attention because they are in the positions to make laws and policies permitting the murder of innocent babes. He should also be directing his comments directly to the Doctors and Nurses involved with abortion. But then, the Church's teaching isn't new. Abortion has been properly declared murder by the Church for years. There's really nothing new in any of this.
I don't agree with what the Liberal Supreme Court decided years ago. There is no right in the Constitution permitting these murders. There is also no guaranteed right of privacy in this respect. Some constitutional lawyers tell me the arguing for that decision was poor, and there was no basis in law for most of it. Thus, it was probably the Liberal bias of the Court leading to such a decision. I know, I know. I'm not a lawyer, but the Constitution wasn't really written for lawyers, was it? The founding fathers didn't expect America to be a land of all lawyers [shuddder!!!]. Shakespeareans would have had all of us killed!
As for rape and incest. These things bother me a lot, and I think the law should be swift and particularly harsh with the perpetrators of these heinous crimes---to include adaptive rules of evidence as necessary. [That should bring out the Liberal ire.] But, the life growing in a woman is still innocent, and it has the natural right to be brought to term and born. It is not a mass of of mother's flesh subject to her perceived needs. It is a separate, innocent life deserving protection and birth. If the mother then wants to put the baby out for adoption, that's her decision. As for the victim-mother, I think she should be given comfort, regular care, and counseling to help her through the nine month period---at the expense of the perpetrator, even if it costs everything such a person owns. The victim-mother should not ever be subjected to denigration---as if the rape or incest was her fault. [Such would NOT be cruel and unusually punishment of the perpetrator, only a just one.]
To be specific, the Doctor is the murderer in an abortion, something that is particularly disgusting to me; so is the denial of a Hippocratic oath by new physicians. The mother may be an enabler and heavily involved in the process, but I expect she is normally misled, under mental stress, and not receiving appropriate care and instruction.
Do these pro-choice politicians really understand what life is and what abortion does to it? You know, and it's obvious, the pro-choicers aren't for choice, they're for murder, plain and simple. If they were really pro-choice in it's semantic purity, they wouldn't be so vocal and violent against the pro-life [or normal] groups. Don't put so much of an onus on these people, they want to protect life---at least most do. The violence from some pro-lifers is wrong, wrong, wrong.
Give me a sane Congress, Judiciary, and Executive working to protect life---all innocent life.
Perhaps, instead of requiring Al Gore's heavily flawed movie, we should be showing students a movie of what an abortion is, does, and looks like. Let them see what murdered, tiny life looks like, and how horrendous a partial birth abortion is. Let them see the process. That would be real education, and it might reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies in the country.
And before you comment, I am in variance with the Pope and believe in capital punishment. These are decidedly NOT innocent lives. They have proved themselves to be beyond the norm in such a way that society must protect itself with a necessary action. [War is another subject for discussion elsewhere.] And, besides, the Pope has not declared self-excommunication to capital punishment adherents. Perhaps in his heart, he agrees with me.