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“Saving” Lives by Ending Lives

Administrator — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:24:22 +0000

Pres Obama is going to reverse George Bush’s policy on embryonic stem cell research. Yet another one of those issues that didn’t seem to matter to pro-life Catholics who enthusiastically supported Obama because “George Bush didn’t really do anything for the unborn anyway. . .”

If George Bush didn’t really do anything to protect life, why does what he did have to be undone?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090307/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_stem_cells

This didn’t take long . . .

Administrator — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:31:25 +0000

To all of those Catholics and other “pro-life” people who voted for Obama because as far as abortion goes, it didn’t make any difference who won the election, this is only the first shoe to drop in proving just how wrong you were. It only took him three days. Geez, I am surprised he waited this long. Now your tax dollars can go full bore to promote abortion as a method of “family planning” all around the world. Thank you, so called Catholics that voted for Obama by a huge majority . . .

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090123/pl_nm/us_obama_abortion

Nancy Pelosi, scholar of Catholc theology and doctrine

Administrator — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:20:53 +0000

Speaker Nancy Pelosi was on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday morning. Tom Brokaw asked her about Rick Warren’s Saddleback Civil Forum where Senator Obama was asked:

PASTOR RICK WARREN: At what point does a baby get human rights, in your view?

SEN. OBAMA: Well, you know, I think that whether you’re looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity, you know, is, is above my pay grade.

Pelosi:

REP. PELOSI: I would say that as an ardent, practicing Catholic, this is an issue that I have studied for a long time. And what I know is, over the centuries, the doctors of the church have not been able to make that definition. And Senator–St. Augustine said at three months. We don’t know. The point is, is that it shouldn’t have an impact on the woman’s right to choose. Roe v. Wade talks about very clear definitions of when the child–first trimester, certain considerations; second trimester; not so third trimester. There’s very clear distinctions. This isn’t about abortion on demand, it’s about a careful, careful consideration of all factors and–to–that a woman has to make with her doctor and her god. And so I don’t think anybody can tell you when life begins, human life begins.

Nancy Pelosi is frighteningly air-headed if she thinks the Catholic Church’s teaching on abortion is at all ambiguous. Would Tim Russert have hit back a little harder on this? I would like to thnk so.

She has to twist herself into a pretzel to defend Obama’s position in favor of virtual infanticide, and to defend the Veep on the ticket, Biden, whom the media have told us ad nauseam in recent days is a “Catholic.” Another pro-abortion, liberal Catholic.

Vatican Condemns US Border Fence

Administrator — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:08:37 +0000

Why is this Vatican cardinal weighing in on the US border fence? If it is moral to have a border and to police who crosses it and when they cross it, then is it not moral to use a fence as a means toward that end? Analogies to Berlin Wall don’t hold up, because that wall was designed to keep people in, not out.