Imagine that happening here to understand the magnitude of Vazquez's decision.
The article doesn't make clear that the Uruguay Congress was unable to muster the 3/5s vote needed to override Vazuez's veto, so it still stands. It would have legalized abortion in Uruguay during the 1st trimester " due to hardship on the basis of economics, family, age, health, or risk to the mother's life," according to the Feminist Daily Newswire yesterday.
Do the exceptions sound familiar? They should. They're the U.S. Supreme Court's definition of the "health" exception, in other words, legalizing abortion on demand.
The other side promises to come back. Of course. Our side should learn from them.
[HT: reader Susie A.]
Comments:
He's a pretty cool looking old dude.
Posted by: Doug at December 9, 2008 8:47 AMTruth is getting exposed. I suspect the sample of people tells us that the pro deathers really have bought some of the false claims about conception.
Posted by: xppc at December 9, 2008 8:58 AMA politician actually standing on his principles? What's this world coming to? Who does he think he is?
Posted by: Doyle Chadwick at December 9, 2008 9:30 AMNow there is a Socialist I can look up to!
Posted by: Kristen at December 9, 2008 9:38 AMThank God there's still a politician in the world who stands up for what's right, even if he is on the left!
Posted by: The Other Erin at December 9, 2008 10:23 AMHe's a pretty cool looking old dude.
Posted by: Doug at December 9, 2008 8:47 AM
I thought it was Henry Winkler at first..
Posted by: Josephine at December 9, 2008 10:41 AMJosephine, maybe Henry Winkler and John Kerry had a love child?
Posted by: Doug at December 9, 2008 11:34 AMSocialist you say? Good riddance.
Posted by: carder at December 9, 2008 12:56 PMYou know that game where you fold up paper into a little triangle, then flick it with your finger, like kicking a football?
Here's a guy that got hit in the nostril:
"You made it from 15 feet. Can you do it from 20?"
Posted by: Doug at December 9, 2008 3:16 PMDoug you are NOT even remotely funny. :-P
I can see you spend your time trolling....
Grouch.
It is funny.
Posted by: Doug at December 9, 2008 5:48 PMmaybe to a middle-aged adolescent... *you know you are!**
Posted by: Patricia at December 10, 2008 7:08 AMDoug, that was not funny. That was a waste of forum space.
Posted by: Doyle Chadwick at December 10, 2008 7:37 AMDoyle, good grief, there's hardly any posts on this thread in the first place.
Posted by: Doug at December 10, 2008 4:51 PMmaybe to a middle-aged adolescent... *you know you are!**
Okay, Patricia, guilty as charged - I do like to have a little fun.
Posted by: Doug at December 10, 2008 4:53 PMWhoo hoo makes me want to get up and dance. I'd love to hug this guy!
Posted by: juda at December 10, 2008 6:27 PMGood for Mr. Vasquez, if only more people and leaders voiced and backed up the truth, that it is "more important to support women with unwanted pregnancies than to offer them abortions."
Posted by: John at December 10, 2008 8:23 PMPadre Pio, as you know was a very holy man and a great mystic. Every time I think I’ve read about every book
I written on the man come across another one. In this particular book on him which I was looking at recently, there
was a person who told a story about going to him for confession. He told about Padre Pio becoming
very angry at him for voting for a socialist. Later he went back to him for confession and told
him that this time he did not vote for the socialist but he couldn't bring himself to vote for
other candidate either, Again Padre Pio became very angry at him. From this we have to conclude
that Padre Pio considered it a sin for someone to vote for a socialist and also to opt for not voting
at all. Another story I read about him in another book was when he went up
to a person he didn't know and had never met and confronted him about being
a communist. In other words, to Padre Pio, a person’s salvation was not exclusionary from
one’s political considerations and what political party you belonged to or voted for (if the moral positions
of such contradicted Catholic teaching) could put your soul in jeopardy. And what about being an accessory
to another’s sin? If a politician has made clear his pro-abortion position and I vote for him and once he
gets into office he carries through with his philosophy am I not guilty of aiding and abetting?
The name of the book from which I got the Padre Pio story was "Stories of Padre Pio" by Katharina Tangari published by TAN books,Rockford Illinois translated from the Italian "Il Messaggio di Padre Pio". Madame Tagari knw Padre Pio for many, many years and was a "spiritual daughter" of him
Here is the story (in part,pages 63 and 64) the penitent told to Ms.Tangari
"My third confession to Padre Pio was a bit after the elections; by now I was completely free from my original ideas. it was clear that neither Socialism nor any other system would ever be able to absolve the problems of the poor and of human misery in general...
I told Padre Pio that this time I had not voted for Socialism.
"For whom did you vote then?" he asked me.
"For nobody," I answered, " because just as I couldn't bring myself to vote for Socialism, neither could I bring myself to vote for my adversaries.
Therefore I didn't vote for anybody."
"Then you can look for absolution elsewhere," said Padre Pio dryly, and he sent me way without giving me absolution.)
How much patience, I wonder, would the Padre have with those who struggled on whether or not to vote for Mr. Obama?
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.
