Catholics, Obama, and the life issue
We know that the right to life is a non-negotiable fundamental tenet of Catholic teaching:
"Abortion kills an unborn, developing human life. It is always gravely evil, and so are the evasions used to justify it." - Bishop Chaput
"As far as the Catholic Church is concerned, the principal focus of her interventions in the public arena is the protection and promotion of the dignity of the person, and she is thereby consciously drawing particular attention to principles which are not negotiable. Among these the following emerge clearly today: the protection of life in all its stages, from the first moment of conception until natural death; recognition and promotion of the natural structure of the family — as a union between one man and one woman based on marriage…; and the protection of the rights of parents to educate their children." - Pope Bendict XVI, 2006
We also know that Obama is a proabortion extremist, probably the most extreme pro-abortion candidate in our nation's history. Obama is cosponsor of the so-called "Freedom of Choice Act", that would make partial-birth abortion legal again, strike down restrictions on taxpayer funding of abortion, and nullify virtually every state and federal law or policy that would in any way "interfere with" access to abortion, including parental notification laws. Obama promises to appoint justices to the Supreme Court who would uphold abortion on demand. He voted to block a bill to require an abortionist to notify a parent before performing an abortion on a minor girl who lives in another state.
If bishops would make clear the moral gravity of ignoring the fundamental issue of abortion, or critique the false statements of pro-choice politicians like Biden and Pelosi, or debunk the rationalizing away how wrong Obama is on the issue, it could well turn the electoral tide sufficient to be a huge victory for the prolife cause. When Catholics vote en masse pro-life, politicians would be forced to listen.
Well, the bishops already have spoken out:
"None of the Catholic arguments advanced in favor of Senator Obama are new. They've been around, in one form or another, for more than 25 years. All of them seek to ''get beyond'' abortion, or economically reduce the number of abortions, or create a better society where abortion won't be necessary. All of them involve a misuse of the seamless garment imagery in Catholic social teaching. And all of them, in practice, seek to contextualize, demote and then counterbalance the evil of abortion with other important but less foundational social issues."
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Thanks for this list!
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