Catholic bishops frighten Planned Parenthood CEO
On October 30 Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards emailed a sigh of relief to followers that “every version of the [healthcare] bills out there… respects choice and expands access.” Whew.
Then Cecile found out Catholic bishops had only the day before activated nationwide priests and parishioners to oppose nationalized healthcare unless it excludes public funded abortion, as described by the National Catholic Reporter, November 2…
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops has sent bulletin inserts to almost 19,000 parishes across the country in an effort to urge Catholics to prevent health care reform from being derailed by support for abortion funding….
Parishes also were receiving suggested pulpit announcements and petitions in support of this effort….
Bulletin inserts were distributed to dioceses Oct. 29, the day House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA… unveiled an $894 billion health care reform bill….
The inserts – expected to be placed in parish bulletins in early November – contain information about how Catholics can take specific action by writing, calling, faxing or e-mailing members of Congress to let them know health care reform must explicitly ban abortion coverage….
The letter accompanied the bulletin inserts urging the bishops to promote the campaign in their dioceses.
It was signed by Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, president; Cardinal Justin Rigali… Bishop John Wester… and Bishop William Murphy….
Cecile didn’t take this news well, not unlike Dracula when sprinkled with holy water. Click to enlarge….
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
I recall Bernard Nathanson stating that if the catholic bishops had protested in 1973, we would have never had Roe vs. Wade.
What’s ironic is that it was the voting catholics that enabled this charlatan into office. And now they’re shocked, SHOCKED, that it’s come to this.
Suckers.
Go Cardinals and Bishops. God bless you for standing up for life. Hurraaaaayyyy!!! Kepp the prayers, emails and phone calls coming prolifers. Bombard the gates of heaven with your prayers and tear down the gates of hell, death and destruction as well.
Jill:
This is a little off topic, but you are quite the center of debate in the comment section over at the rh reality check website.(The “Born Alive” Myth: Tale Turned Political Tool By Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check, November 2, 2009 – 7:00am)
By the way, the whole story she wrote was very misleading. She was basically saying that abortionists morally know the difference between a baby and a fetus. That makes the Infant Born Alive act stupid.
What amazes me the most is that these people have not figured out that Jill is on their e-mail lists.
If I were them, I would delete her immediately.
And a little tip for Cecile. Catholic churches are usually not called “congregations.” That word is mostly used in the protestant world.
I’m so sick of pro aborts calling abortion “health care.” Call it what it is you cowards….. ABORTION.
Carder, you are unfortunately correct. It WAS Catholics who elected Obama, and that is our great shame. May God have mercy on us.
I am very glad to see this call to action from our bishops, and I hope the faithful are listening and paying attention. It’s a good sign that PP cares at all about what the bishops are saying — means they’re saying the right things.
Cecile Richards exhorts her readers to urge legislators to “not cave in to the vocal minority”. Interesting, since 67% of Americans say they’re against government-funded abortion. So I’m guessing the “minority” she opposes are her own pro-abortion supporters?
Wow, I should not be surprised anymore. The Catholic bishops are saying they want health care. So the fact that she is so blatent about the abortion part of it, just amazes me. The way they disguised PP for so long, as a place for women to get health care, and that abortion was just one of the parts, but surely not a big part, has just been blown wide open by the fact that they are fighting with bishops of the Catholic Church to get ABORTION in the health care. So if you flip that, they believe getting abortion in it, is more important than all of the other parts of health care. Funny how people’s true colors will show when they are under pressure. Yuck!
I wonder if the devoted daughter of dearly departed former Governor of Texas, Ann ‘wrinkles’ Richards, would include treatment for infertility in her definition of ‘reproductive health’?
Anyone who capable of ‘reproducing’ the old fashioned way would not require ‘reproductive health care’.
Only those folks, both male and female, who are otherwise healthy but who cannot reproduce due to disease, injury, or physical defect would be in need of ‘reproductive health care’.
But missy Richards and her lying minions are not at all interested in assisting people struggling with infertility to conceive a child of their own or even to adopt a child.
The ‘Dead Babies R Us’ crowd is only interested in ensuring humans do NOT reproduce, particularly the ones they view as ‘undesirable’.
To them pregnancy is a sexually transmitted disease. Why else would they refer to elective abortion as ‘health care’?
These servants of darkness specialize in killing, stealing and destroying.
They do what their spiritual father/mother does.
yor bro ken
kmann, thanks! Just made a comment.
I recall Bernard Nathanson stating that if the catholic bishops had protested in 1973, we would have never had Roe vs. Wade.
What’s ironic is that it was the voting catholics that enabled this charlatan into office. And now they’re shocked, SHOCKED, that it’s come to this.
Suckers.
Posted by: carder at November 2, 2009 9:33 PM
couldn’t have said it better myself. :(
“Divide and Conquer”?
Jill: great rebuttal over at RH Reality!
The following came to me while reading the comments and your response:
As a Catholic we have a novena to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Undoer of Knots. It’s a very powerful novena.
If ever there were knots in this world, it is those fashioned by the proaborts over at RH (un)Reality. (I too couldn’t figure out that fetus being alive line???)
I see your work in this world as a handmaiden of the Lord – an undoer of knots.
You will remain in my prayers for all the good work you do and that the Holy Spirit may continue to enlighten and guide you.
God bless
angel,
Thank you for your prayer. Prayer IS the answer. I’m heading for the Eucharistic Adoration Chapel at my parish today for an hour of prayer in the presence of our Lord, and I would encourage others to do so as well. (You don’t have to be Catholic.) God bless.
“kmann, thanks! Just made a comment.”
Posted by: Jill Stanek at November 3, 2009 8:01 AM
Great response over at RH! Just the facts, Ma’am!
Man..even C.Richards can’t say the A-word when sending out emails to her “supporters”?
It’s ABORTION, Cecille…and it’s Not, Never was and Never will be considered “HealthCare”.
Let’s continue the prayers, folks!!
Blech. I’m almost sorry I wandered over to “RH Reality (“reality?” You have *got* to be kidding me!) Check”. What a bunch of spiritual sewage!
Pardon me while I go take a spiritual shower, and pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy… :)
That pile of rationalization about late-term/second-term/etc. abortions that commenter spewed was really telling. Why would you go on such a diatribe when it had no relation whatsoever to the topic at hand? It read like 2 pages of unadulterated guilty conscience.
Wow… I just browsed through some of those comments. It is amazing the lengths people will got through to delude themselves that it’s okay to kill somebody else.
Jesus said “This is my body, given up for you that you might live.”
Pro-aborts say “This is my body, you are only a choice and I will decide whether you live or die”.
Lord have mercy on us all.
That’s right, Janet. It shows how Satan mocks Jesus by taking the very holy words of consecration and turning them into something that is diametrically opposite of their meaning.
Have you ever seen the 5 minute video that EWTN plays with that theme? Makes me cry every time.
Hi Bobby,
Yes, I have seen the EWTN video. It is beautiful!
I know you can appreciate this – I have EWTN again because Comcast revised their cable package. Yay! I really missed it. Especially Raymond Arroyo’s World Over.
Oh, good news, I’m an Aunt again! My new niece was born today. Now I have 21 nieces and nephews. What blessings they are.
God love you. :)
“Now I have 21 nieces and nephews. What blessings they are.”
How blessed you are, Janet! God love you.
could you guys link to the EWTN video?
yeah I’ve been keeping up on the debacle, oops I meant debate over at RH Reality.
I never thought proaborts were really that stupid or maybe it’s just morally blind…..
they are arguing that abortions are done on already dead babies, ya know like the ones that die from natural miscarriages….
talk about rationalizing away any responsibility for causing the death of a human baby through the choice of abortion.
Angel,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCmLmZDpB4I&feature=related
I’m still Catholic, but struggling. I don’t see the bishops supporting social safety nets and the value of the living. What I do see is a lot of loud, abusive, non-productive hate speech. I’m an American, which means I support the separation of church and state written into the Constitution. I’ve decided the next time my pastor delivers a sermon that encourages the congregation (yes, we do call it that) to vote against the rights of people of other denominations or sexual orientations, I am going to get up and very slowly and obviously walk out. And I’m sure others will join me. I can follow my beliefs as a Catholic without pushing those beliefs on anyone else-otherwise Catholic are no better than the Taliban.
Shelley,
“I don’t see the bishops supporting social safety nets and the value of the living”
Are the unborn dead? How does the bishops not supporting safety nets make abortion not the killing of an innocent human begin?
I highly recommend “The End of Secularism” by Hunter Baker, which shows why this [false] notion of separation of church and state is complete nonsense and why there is no rational reason that secularism should be the default position of this country, which it sadly is.
Shelley,
I challenge you to find ‘separation of church in state’ in the Constitution, because it’s not there. (Yes, I have a copy, get one for yourself!) That phrase was in a personal letter written by Thomas Jefferson, not in any of our nation’s founding documents. If you’re attempting to make a reference to the 1st amendment, it’s freedom OF religion, not freedom FROM religion. Crack your Bible (Lev 20:4 and Lev 18:22-30) and God will explain what happens to those who tolerate the things that are an abomination to Him.
Yech, again. I’ve just shaken the dust of “RH Reality Check [sic]” from my shoes. Enough. That place is beyond the need for logical correction; they need an exorcist!
Shelley, I’m sorry, but you’re looking at the Church through political lenses… and it just doesn’t work like that. If you’re waiting and hoping for the Church to “come around to your point of view” (which seems to be politically liberal), you’re going to be perpetually frustrated. The Church is the Bride of Christ, not a social club in which we all get a vote, or which we can all politically “lobby”.
The Church condemns the “normalization” of homosexuality because it’s a disease–not because She [the Church] hates the people who suffer from it! I’m currently in remission from leukemia… but I have absolutely no problem with anyone telling me that they hate the disease of cancer and wish I were rid of it! I don’t confuse that with hating *me*! Why do you think that the Church “hates” homosexuals who are suffering with a loathsome physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual disorder that warps them away from true fulfillment and happiness? Read the Catechism, and see what sort of “hate speech” is there:
“The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God’s will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord’s Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition.” (CCC 2358; see also 2357,2359)
There’s a deep difference between what we want, and what we need, Shelley. There’s also a deep difference between what we want to hear, and what we need to hear. The Church gives us what we need, even if it frustrates what we want. Can’t you see that this is all she can possibly do?