Jivin J’s Life Links 12-11-09
by JivinJ
Despite a public reprimand from her religious order last month, Chicago’s pro-choice Roman Catholic nun, Sister Donna Quinn, is not backing down from her support of abortion rights, applauding the defeat of an amendment today that would have added restrictions to the health care bill for women seeking abortions.
Citing a poem about the Virgin Mary, Quinn noted the providential date of the amendment’s defeat….
“I was reminded of being with men and women from the Unitarian faith tradition last year as they celebrated Mary who by her assent, they believed, was one of the first women in the New Testament to express Choice,” Quinn said.
Never in my worst nightmare did I imagine I would need to have an abortion – and certainly not late term.
Weinstein didn’t need an abortion and this becomes crystal clear later in her piece where her and her husbands “wants” are mentioned. I can never understand it when pro-choicers who glorify “choice” try to act like their abortion was needed and they didn’t have a choice. It’s like they don’t even believe their own rhetoric:
We did not want our child’s existence to depend solely on feeding tubes and machines. We did not want to bring a child into this world who would only be here in a vegetative state, never knowing his or her big brother or parents. For this child, for our son and for our family, my husband and I made the heartbreaking decision to terminate. We did the most loving, humane act a parent could do – put an end to our baby’s suffering.
No. You put an end to your baby’s life, not your baby’s suffering. Killing is not the answer to human suffering.
Board member Clarke Heidrick, who is an attorney, says in his view and in most instances, “abortion is wrong.”
But Heidrick says abortions are legal and that continuing the contracts will support the district’s mission of providing health services to those who can’t afford to pay for care.
I read about this. So lets go with it. So lets look at Mary’s choice, shall we? She chose life. And because of it Mary’s soul was not only NOT damned to hell, but now all of us also have the opportunity for eternal salvation as well.
If Mary had chosen what this nun helps other women choose (abortion) then not only would Mary be burning in hell right now (I assume aborting Christ would get you an automatic pass to hellfire) but all of us would be on our way right now too. And it wouldn’t be Christmas.
So if you choose abortion look where it leads. Abortion only leads to hell. Life leads to to truth and light. God is the God of life and the author of life. Satan is the father of lies and his companion is death. There you have it. Thats what we can learn from Mary.
I live in Travis county. They’re giving child slaughter houses 450,000 to kill the children of “poor” women.
I say “poor” because I drive by two such “clinics” every day. Without fail, the cars in the parking lot are nicer than mine. I guess they can afford that new Accord, but not the 500 dollars it takes to kill their child.
Nope, I get to pay for that. Awesome.
“I was reminded of being with men and women from the Unitarian faith tradition last year as they celebrated Mary who by her assent, they believed, was one of the first women in the New Testament to express Choice,” Quinn said.
For the sake of his sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world!
And Donna is such a good religious nun that she confused the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, which is Mary’s conception in her mother’s womb, with the Annunciation, which is when she assented to God’s will. She’s thinking of March 25, not December 8. Ah, there’s modern Catholic education for you.
Haha, nice catch, Michael. I missed that one. The funny thing is, you can find what the feast of the Immaculate Conception is in any DICTIONARY- you don’t even need the Catechism. God love you.
Mary’s fiat came before the Incarnation, not after. Stupid nun.
Sister Quinn is to the Catholic Church what Benedict Arnold was to the Continental Army. But that’s not really being fair to Arnold. He was intelligent.
A life of chaste celibacy is supposed to be life-giving in many ways. Sister Quinn has managed to orchestrate a lose-lose on that front, which takes talent!
The “choice” that Mary had didn’t have anything to do with abortion, but with accepting the responsibility of raising God Himself from human infancy. So naturally one can understand her maiden modesty and natural trepidation at the thought. In her assent to God’s will, Mary became the feminist archetype. What woman can boast having raised God?! Has there ever been a more important job in the history of humanity?
The dignity of motherhood would forever be changed, elevated by the very simple “Fiat Voluntas Tua”. God chose not to hop off of a cloud, which would have been quite a negative statement about the womb and women. He chose to be born of a woman, affirming His declaration in Genesis about ALL that He created, saying that it was,”Very Good”!
Quinn’s perversion of that is consistent with the demonic assault on all that is holy, and calls to mind Jesus’ own prophecy that in the last days men will call good ‘evil’ and evil ‘good’. It’s all over the place.
In addition to the lethal assault on the baby, abortion is an assault on Motherhood, Fatherhood, and Family: The very paradigms offered in scripture for the inner life of the Blessed Trinity. “Sister” Quinn has joined those who spit in God’s eye. In that, I do not include the women who seek abortion, most not really knowing what they do, but the leaders who militate for it, and the practitioners.
My only consolation as a Roman Catholic is that orders such as hers are dying on the vine. They have no new vocations, while new orders of faithful YOUNG women are springing up with all of the vitality of new life. In 15 years, the “Sister” Quinns will all be dead or in nursing homes. We’ll be cleaning up after them for at least a half-century.
We did the most loving, humane act a parent could do – put an end to our baby’s suffering.
This one sentence, by itself… Weinstein has managed to simultaneously condemn every set of parents who does not abort a disable child as unloving, and reduce the act of abortion to the same kind of action as putting down a sick dog.
[sarcasm]Way to go, Weinstein.[/sarcasm] In all seriousness, I get that this is a tough spot to be in. We have, unfortunately, made abortion seem like the “right” choice in our society for parents in this position. But to both dehumanize your own child and to condemn every parent who chooses differently from you, at once? Really?
Ohhhhhhhh no, Donna, you’re not going to mess with my favorite pro-life icon.
Mary was in an awful situation to be pregnant – she was unmarried, engaged to a man who knew it wasn’t his baby, AND she knew that she wasn’t having premarital sex the way everyone assumed she did. But Mary trusted in the will of God and gave birth to Jesus anyway. She knew that Joseph could legally have her stoned for being pregnant but she trusted that God would take care of her and Jesus.
Wow, you said it, Keli Hu.