Jivin J’s Life Links 10-20-10
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
- Spiegel Online International has an article about Polish women coming into Germany for abortions. It’s a very pro-abort article but the end notes how some European countries have limits on abortion which would be considered “severe” by pro-aborts in the U.S.:
The 4th patient had come too late: She was already in the 19th week of her pregnancy. In Germany, abortions are only permitted until the 12th week. This patient will probably get back into her car and drive even further west. The Netherlands permit terminations until the 22nd week of gestation.
- A man accused of attempting to force a woman to have an abortion at gunpoint has been charged with attempted murder, kidnapping and firearms charges. The attempted murder charge seems to be based on his attempt to kill his unborn child:
“He is charged with attempted murder for the attempt at gunpoint to force her to have an abortion against her will,” O’Brien (the case’s prosecutor) wrote.
“The (state) murder statute was amended a few years back to prohibit ‘unlawful termination of a pregnancy’ in order to avoid the debate whether an unborn fetus is a ‘person’ under the law.
“I have tried homicides where the murder victim was pregnant, and we were able to charge and convict for two counts, but this case is the first under these kinds of facts.”
- Here’s another example of pro-choice intolerance:Pro-Life Students of La Crosse had spent 3 hours Sunday setting out 1,100 crosses to resemble a cemetery on Wittich Field.
But the crosses were pulled from the ground sometime overnight and left stacked in heaps, group president Alyssa Gebel said. “I felt like our efforts went unnoticed and they mocked the views and beliefs of our group…. It was a terrible thing to see on a campus that is so welcoming of free speech.”
The crosses weren’t damaged, she said, so the group set them up again along with another 400 that will remain on the field through Thursday.
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 read that article. It doesn’t even try to be impartial. Reminds me of Mother Teresa saying (and I’m paraphrasing) that women have abortions so that they “may live as they wish.”
“I love my job, and abortions are a necessary evil,”
Evil? YES! Necessary??? NO!!! How blind and misguided! God, have mercy on his soul!!!
“Church was completely out of touch with the times, that Poland’s abortion legislation didn’t reflect real life in Poland anymore.”
The church doesn’t have to change the moral teaching just because the times have changed. That’s why it has survived for thousands of years and continues to grow – because it can offer authentic teaching that has stood the challenge of time. Abortion was a grave sin in Old Testament days just as much as it is now.
“More and more of them go to college and want to have a career. Statistics indicate that they are waiting longer and longer before having children. And they want to decide themselves when the time is right to become a mother.”
Great!!! Perfect!!! There’s no problem with that! Don’t want children – don’t have sex! Simple! Married and still don’t want children – use NFP! Worked for me and didn’t upset the church! Problem solved! Maybe it’s time to realize that selfishness and pleasure-seeking is at the root of the problem?
“The doctors are worried they will be discovered, and the women feel ashamed.”
Wait a minute here…. What is there to be ashamed of by removing a piece of tissue from your uterus??? No different than what happens during your menstruation, right? Why the embarrassement?
“All the girls in my class have sex,” she said. “Afterwards they go to confession.”
Oh yeah, and we always MUST do what everyone else is doing, right? If everyone else drinks and smokes, you must do to. If everyone else is having sex, you must definitely do it as well, or else….. It’s good if they go to confession because they realize what they’ve done, and have a resolution not to sin again. However I have a feeling that’s not always the case …. :(
“…bishops wanted free, Catholic Poland to be a God-fearing country in which men and women only shared a bed if they were married and only had sex for the purpose of having babies.”
Umm… No. You can share a bed as much as you want with anyone you want even if you’re a Catholic. It’s what you do WHILE you’re sharing the bed that counts. And really, where do they always get the idea that catholics only have sex when making a baby??? We have all the sex we want and enjoy it, using NFP when trying to delay the pregnancy. No problems there.
Vita, isn’t most of the growth in the Catholic Church in the developing world?