Pro-life blog buzz 10-23-12
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN and Kelli
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- Judie Brown of American Life League calls out Cardinal Dolan’s hypocrisy in inviting President Obama to the Al Smith Dinner.While Dolan claimed on his own blog that dining with sinners is Christlike and that to disinvite opponents would leave him dining alone, Dolan declined an invitation to offer the opening prayer at a 2009 Pro-Life Wisconsin banquet because Brown (who has publicly castigated bishops) was going to be the keynote speaker:
On the one hand, he found it problematic that I led and continue to lead a campaign to beseech Catholic bishops to obey canon 915 and deny Holy Communion to pro-abortion politicians. On the other hand, he finds it Christlike to dine with the most pro-abortion president in the history of this nation.
- Albert Mohler pans a New Yorker piece which called GOP VP candidate Paul Ryan’s statements on abortion and faith “geniunely disturbing and scary” and similar to that of a “mullah.” Mohler writes:
Ryan stated the obvious — “Our faith informs us in everything we do.” Any faith of substance will inform every dimension of our lives. It is hard to imagine that Adam Gopnik would have complained or even taken offense if a similar statement had been made, for example, by the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., concerning his advocacy for civil rights….
- Pro-Life Action League president Eric Scheidler has an op-ed in the Washington Times explaining why liberals and moderates should be concerned about the Obama administration’s egregious attack on religious freedom.
- Abortion State captures the real war on women: another woman injured at a Planned Parenthood clinic – this time in Everett, WA. Women should be truly offended by the way Obama ignores women who have been injured and even killed at the PP clinics he so unabashedly supports.
- Ethika Politika discusses a 1947 admonition from Pope Pius XXII stating that abstaining from voting when the interests of the Church are at stake is a “grave and fatal sin.” We must not be silent in the face of evil.
- Live Action responds in two parts to Jezebel’s assertion (content warning: profanity) that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is wrong for strictly interpreting the Constitution on abortion and other social issues.
- Charmaine Yoest of Americans United for Life wishes she had just one question for the President at a debate:
Mr. President, is there not a single limit on abortion that you would support? Not even one?
- At The Leading Edge, Brendan Malonenotes a recent TV panel discussion in which ethicists claimed parents have a “moral obligation” to use abortion to weed out imperfect children. Designer babies? Yes. Sex selection abortion? Yes. Unfortunately the audience tended to agree with the panel.Find podcasts from Malone’s “Edge of Reason” here.
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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.
Regarding that abortion that went wrong, many years ago I heard about a legal abortion that went REAL wrong. It was a saline abortion. A baby was born with the skin burned. That baby screamed in agony for hours until succumbing to death because of the saline damage.
And if Mr. Bojangles had been present he would have turned the radio up as loud as possible to drown out the child’s crying.
I fully agree with Judie Brown. Dolan is a disgrace.
I seem to recall that Judy Brown is ‘catholic’.
If I recall correctly then there is probably no reason to believe her criticism of mr. Dolan is fueled by an anti-catholic sentiment.
WWJD is what comes to my mind when ever the subject of the Al Smith Dinner and Dolan and the obamateur is raised.
But it is not like this sort of mis-calculation has never occurred before.
When I read about the agreements that were made between the catholic hierarchy and Adolf Hitler, then Dolan’s fraternizing with ‘dead babies r us’ democRATs is not unprecedented.
[How did that work out for them?]
I just wonder how far up the food chain this decision traveled. I have to believe the man at the top was fully aware of the situation. Evidently he did not forbid it.
It wasn’t just any people that the NAZI’s were hellbent on erradicating. The Jews are the ‘apple of God’s eye’.
I am confident that passage is included in the catholic bible.
Didn’t Jesus have something to say about the little children’s angels beholding GOD’s face and a giving a warning about harming the little ones?
Thank GOD, literally thank GOD, there are followers of Christ, who identify themselves as ‘catholic’, who reject the behavior of the hierarchy when it contradicts GOD’s revealed will.
Judy Brown seems to be one of those people.
I can’t ever see myself breaking bread with the obamateur, or mr. Romney or even mr. Dolan, in a public setting, tho I might entertain them privately if I were moved by HOLY SPIRIT to do so.
Judy Brown would be welcome round my campfire anytime.