Jivin J’s Life Links 11-24-09
by JivinJ
Across the room, Bob Casey of PA, a pro-life Catholic, listened in silence. But a few minutes later a reporter asked his opinion on abortion coverage in the Senate version of health reform. “We want to make sure that there is no federal funding of abortion,” began Casey, but MI Senator Debbie Stabenow quickly cut him off.
“We do not have funding for abortion services in these bills,” she said. “Senator Casey doesn’t need to worry about it. He can vote for health reform.”
Casey smiled patiently, but stood his ground. “We need more work done on this.”
Shaking her head, Stabenow [pictured left] jumped in again. “This health care debate is not about changing current policy on abortion,” she said. “There is no funding for abortion. So there should be no problem.” Unfortunately for Stabenow and other Democrats, in the month since that meeting abortion has become very much a problem – if not the biggest hurdle – in passing health care reform.
The article also mentions that Senator Casey is working on an amendment to help pregnant women, which doesn’t really alleviate pro-life concerns with the bill.
Congressman Kennedy’s position on abortion can be viewed as the confused fruit of the scandalous incoherence of his father’s generation with regard to the faith and the sanctity of human life. Since that scandal was inadequately addressed and corrected, the confusion in the second generation is much greater than in the first. That’s why the efforts of Providence Bishop Thomas Tobin to remedy that confusion are relevant not merely to Congressman Kennedy, but to the whole Church.
“We want everybody covered and nobody deliberately killed,” said Richard Doerflinger, associate director of the group’s secretariat of pro-life activities. “It doesn’t seem to us an unreasonable request for health care.”

Perhaps STAB-EM-NOW doesn’t know that lying is a sin?
How these people sleep at night is beyond me.
They have seared consciences.