Understanding our “enemy”
In order to defeat one’s enemy, one must understand them. In order to heal a disease, we must understand what that disease is. To most of us pro-lifers, it is nearly impossible for us to fathom what is going on in the head of someone who is “pro-choice”.
That is why this article is so very important. The article is written by Jennifer Fulwiler, who I have mentioned before in this blog, and explains the reasons why she was pro-choice before her conversion. To sum up a great article into three words, the reason was: the contraceptive mentality. This insidious mentality is behind nearly all of our sexual and family problems in the Western world today, and during Lent, I will be posting a series on how each problem is traceable back to contraception as the root.
If we are going to heal our society and once again instill a reverence for life, it will have to start with rooting out the contraceptive mentality. As people are starting to realize the harmful effects of non-natural foods, lotions, etc., this task may not be as overwhelmingly difficult as it seems.
Crunch Time to defeat Obamacare
Well, the latest is that the Senate version of Obamacare will be voted on this week or next by both the Senate and the House. If this is true, then the pro-life victory in the House which prohibited abortion coverage has been wiped out, and the version that will come to a final vote DOES contain coverage for abortion. Don’t be confused by claims that the bill is abortion-neutral or does not contain funding of abortion. The Senate bill, as currently stands, definitely DOES allow for abortions to be covered in the health care plan, and the most likely scenario is that the House will simply be voting on the Senate version without any chance to reinsert the pro-life Stupak amendment.
Public opinion is against this bill because of abortion, as well as other reasons. NOW is the time to make your voice heard to your Senators and Congressmen. For those of you that have Senators or Congressmen that will not be convinced by arguments about abortion (such as is the case with the Senators here in Minnesota), try using other reasons to make the case, such as the angle that the health care bill is a major expense at a time when our country can’t afford another money pit.
The best chance to defeat the bill is still in the House, so focus on your Congressmen, especially those of you who live in districts with more moderate Democrats who voted for the original Stupak amendment. Move your cursor over the Contact header on the main Rosaries for Life site to contact your Senators and Congressmen!
Don’t forget to fast and pray the Rosary for our nation in this critical time! If you have not already pledged your prayers, please do so!
Update: At US News and World Report, there is this informative report about the current abortion related issues in the health care bill.
The Myth of Overpopulation
Overpopulation is a myth which is used to push the use of contraception and abortion, especially in the Third World. The good folks at the Population Research Institute have created a short YouTube presentation (below) to expose the overpopulation school of thought as false.
Fast Tube by Casper
More information can be found at this site.
The Truth Comes Out
The pro-abortion side likes to keep its aims couched in euphemisms as much as possible. However, once in a while, the truth comes out and we see that the eugenic origins of the pro-abortion and pro-contraception movements are still there behind the curtain.
Witness a certain Supreme Court justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in the New York Times:
Q: Are you talking about the distances women have to travel because in parts of the country, abortion is essentially unavailable, because there are so few doctors and clinics that do the procedure? And also, the lack of Medicaid for abortions for poor women?
JUSTICE GINSBURG: Yes, the ruling about that surprised me. [Harris v. McRae — in 1980 the court upheld the Hyde Amendment, which forbids the use of Medicaid for abortions.] Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion. Which some people felt would risk coercing women into having abortions when they didn’t really want them. But when the court decided McRae, the case came out the other way. And then I realized that my perception of it had been altogether wrong.
There it is - the particular problem which abortion was to solve was that of too much population growth in “populations that we don’t want to have too many of.” It’s supremely ironic that our first minority President is resolutely committed to abortion when it is abortion that is killing off a high percentage of African-Americans. African-Americans have abortions at rates 5 times higher than the white population, with an estimated 14+ million abortions among African-Americans having occurred since 1973.
This also points out another ugly truth that Planned Parenthood and the rest of the pro-abortion movement want to keep hidden at all costs - abortion and contraception came out of the same hellish ideology that brought us Adolf Hitler - Darwinism. I’m not talking about believing in evolution necessarily; that is allowable according to Church teaching. However, Darwin posited that there is good genetic stock and bad genetic stock, and we all know about the “survival of the fittest” catchphrase. For his followers, then, it became an imperative to help those carrying the good genes proliferate as much as possible, while those carrying the “bad genes” should be stamped out whenever possible. Abortion and the gas chamber were simply different means to this end.
Today, the “bad” people who should be weeded out as much as possible are the poor, and those with genetic deformities, rather than certain races, but the principle remains exactly the same.
Hat tip to Creative Minority Report.
Support Pope Benedict
The media and liberal establishment are pulling out all the stops to discredit Pope Benedict XVI, one of the best Popes we have ever had. They can’t stand that he speaks the truth. The latest flap is over the use of condoms to fight AIDS in Africa. Hard statistics back the Pope up on this, as the supposed safety of condoms leads people to take risks they would not otherwise take. For some people, however, nothing must be allowed to stand in the way of “sexual freedom”, not even the truth. Let Pope Benedict know that you support him here.
