Very important.
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=16636
We're about to see whether Obama really does lie or not, because he said he supported conscience clauses. Nurses are often treated rotten by doctors, but this really beats all. How do I know this? My mom and my MIL are/were both RN's. My mom had me in a hospital about 90 mins or more away from the one she worked in because the one she worked in started doing abortions almost as soon as Roe vs. Wade was decided. She did not want those doctors touching me.
This kind of thing is like if you were a prison guard, doing your normal job, and then they said, "Hey, firing squad execution at high noon, or we'll find someone else to take your job!" It's insane, because other nurses would have done that job. What were they trying to prove? I'm so glad she's suing them, but if the new health plan Obama is pushing includes abortion for all and no conscience clause, many doctors and nurses will be trying to get different careers. After all that school (and debt), hard work and expertise, they will not do abortions, and if that means not being a medical professional, then that is that. Horrible. Entire hospitals may close. But no one has seen the fine print yet, and Mr. Obama did address it, so it is in the media where you can see what he said. We can reform our health system without fully funding abortion, one would think.
http://www.lifenews.com/nat5189.html
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
A pro-life awesome dude! ... and of course, Tianmen Square Anniversary
I saw this link on a homeschooling loop today. Wow. This guy is awesome!
http://www.catholicvoiceoakland.org/09-05-25/frontpage1.htm
Also, today is the 20th anniversary of the massacre at Tianamen Square. To this day, no one knows for sure what happened, except the people who were there. They are not allowed to talk, so we may never know, unless someday China tells us, or someone smuggles something out of the country. The fear is so great, it appears many children in China do not know what happened. 20 somethings say, "Something happened, but I don't know what. Some sort of clash about capitalism and communism maybe?" No really, I read this. I think it was in Newsweek or something.
AGH!
I was only 12 at the time. I remember that year because it was quite a year. At roughly the same time, Russia because Russia again, not the USSR I grew up with. The Berlin Wall came down, and there was once again one Germany, and not two.
ISN'T THAT MIND-BLOWING?? Seriously? I barely remember the Cold War, but it was a big deal! Now people don't even care.
It so does not surprise me how fast history repeats itself. People are just not paying attention.
When I was in 4th grade, I had a pen pal from the USSR, probably Vladivostok, since that was our sister city. We were told as a class that we should not be surprised if not all of our letter got to our pen pal, because the mail would be intercepted, and authorities would black out what they didn't want people to know. I have no idea what we could have said. I imagine a trip to Disneyland would be verboten? I don't know. We were also told that pencils with erasers were like gold to these kids. We were told how lucky we were. And we were! And still are! So far....
In any case, here is a link to wikipedia, explaining what we know of what happened 20 years ago in China.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_massacre
Free speech is so important. Even hate speech. Because anything can be construed as hate speech if you start that slippery slope. We must hold tight to free speech, the right to bear arms, and work on our education. The school systems are teaching us to be ashamed of our country, and they are wrong. But people believe it and don't know history. Always check out the facts from differing points of view. It is so very important, and getting more so as people get more vitriolic in their views, and use their brains less.
God Bless America, where at least I know I'm free, to coin a phrase from a song.
http://www.catholicvoiceoakland.org/09-05-25/frontpage1.htm
Also, today is the 20th anniversary of the massacre at Tianamen Square. To this day, no one knows for sure what happened, except the people who were there. They are not allowed to talk, so we may never know, unless someday China tells us, or someone smuggles something out of the country. The fear is so great, it appears many children in China do not know what happened. 20 somethings say, "Something happened, but I don't know what. Some sort of clash about capitalism and communism maybe?" No really, I read this. I think it was in Newsweek or something.
AGH!
I was only 12 at the time. I remember that year because it was quite a year. At roughly the same time, Russia because Russia again, not the USSR I grew up with. The Berlin Wall came down, and there was once again one Germany, and not two.
ISN'T THAT MIND-BLOWING?? Seriously? I barely remember the Cold War, but it was a big deal! Now people don't even care.
It so does not surprise me how fast history repeats itself. People are just not paying attention.
When I was in 4th grade, I had a pen pal from the USSR, probably Vladivostok, since that was our sister city. We were told as a class that we should not be surprised if not all of our letter got to our pen pal, because the mail would be intercepted, and authorities would black out what they didn't want people to know. I have no idea what we could have said. I imagine a trip to Disneyland would be verboten? I don't know. We were also told that pencils with erasers were like gold to these kids. We were told how lucky we were. And we were! And still are! So far....
In any case, here is a link to wikipedia, explaining what we know of what happened 20 years ago in China.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_massacre
Free speech is so important. Even hate speech. Because anything can be construed as hate speech if you start that slippery slope. We must hold tight to free speech, the right to bear arms, and work on our education. The school systems are teaching us to be ashamed of our country, and they are wrong. But people believe it and don't know history. Always check out the facts from differing points of view. It is so very important, and getting more so as people get more vitriolic in their views, and use their brains less.
God Bless America, where at least I know I'm free, to coin a phrase from a song.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Notre Dame Response
There's been a lot in the paper about Notre Dame inviting President Obama to their commencement tomorrow. There's also been a lot of stupid commentary. Several news commentators think that some "rogue Catholics" are trying to tell the US president how to think, even though he's not Catholic. No, we are not. We are asking a Catholic University to uphold Catholic teaching. We are not asking non-Catholics to do anything. The bishops and archbishops are shepherds of Catholics, not everyone, and they know that. By keeping silent, they are letting their flock be mislead. They've been patient a long time, perhaps thinking people would come around, but it's only gotten worse. Many people think that the few students who've decided to protest and not attend their own graduation are a bunch of lunatics. They are not. They apparently went to a Catholic university on purpose, not because it was The Fighting Irish. It's not just for the football, people.
I don't know where this is going, but it's going somewhere. We are not infringing on others' opinions, we are simply asking Catholic institutions to BE Catholic, and if they don't want to be, then please feel free to leave. Flaunting the request of bishops is not at all the job of a university president. I know academia has gotten into the habit of disobedience, but it has got to stop.
Another fun thing I keep seeing in comments after news articles is that "the Catholic Church's biggest worry should be that it will be a much smaller church if all these people leave." YES! It WOULD be! I don't remember the Bible asking us to keep a certain number of followers of Christ. It asks us to be faithful. If we cannot do that, there are many other churches to belong to, and that's ok. If that's their journey of faith, let them follow it. What I'm tired of is people trying to "liberalize" the Church. It's the body of Christ! Christ isn't modern enough because he doesn't go along with what the world wants? Since when??
Anyway, I'm done with that soapbox... for now. Let us continue to be "a sign of contradiction."
Please enjoy this video from NDresponse.com
I don't know where this is going, but it's going somewhere. We are not infringing on others' opinions, we are simply asking Catholic institutions to BE Catholic, and if they don't want to be, then please feel free to leave. Flaunting the request of bishops is not at all the job of a university president. I know academia has gotten into the habit of disobedience, but it has got to stop.
Another fun thing I keep seeing in comments after news articles is that "the Catholic Church's biggest worry should be that it will be a much smaller church if all these people leave." YES! It WOULD be! I don't remember the Bible asking us to keep a certain number of followers of Christ. It asks us to be faithful. If we cannot do that, there are many other churches to belong to, and that's ok. If that's their journey of faith, let them follow it. What I'm tired of is people trying to "liberalize" the Church. It's the body of Christ! Christ isn't modern enough because he doesn't go along with what the world wants? Since when??
Anyway, I'm done with that soapbox... for now. Let us continue to be "a sign of contradiction."
Please enjoy this video from NDresponse.com
Saturday, April 25, 2009
A real Shepherd
Wow. I'm blown away. How about you? Really, it's a pdf file worth reading, from a Right To Life convention in Kansas.
http://www.diocese-kcsj.org/_docs/Gospel-of-Life-04-09.pdf
And a hat tip to Fr. Farfaglia, who is also endorsing the movie "Fireproof", and saying how it helps him, because he is married to his parish.
http://www.diocese-kcsj.org/_docs/Gospel-of-Life-04-09.pdf
And a hat tip to Fr. Farfaglia, who is also endorsing the movie "Fireproof", and saying how it helps him, because he is married to his parish.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Pelosi and the Pope
I'd been following it anyway, but The Common Room also noticed this and wondered why this trip was being paid for by taxpayers. That is a very good question. Why can't they do more phone calls these days? Those are expensive trips!
But in any case, this is a pretty good article about what transpired. The culture wars cometh, I tell ya. I mean, they are already here, but I think they are going to get much, much nastier when people finally get fed up and say, "No, you may NOT do this." And then follow through. The follow through is going to be beastly. It's like finally deciding to discipline one's brat of a kid after 10 years of spoiling him. When you finally crack down, it's like the end of the world, so you put it off til you are good and ready.
I'm ready.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Were They At The Same Meeting? [George Weigel]
From the office of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi:
It is with great joy that my husband, Paul, and I met with His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, today. In our conversation, I had the opportunity to praise the Church’s leadership in fighting poverty, hunger, and global warming, as well as the Holy Father’s dedication to religious freedom and his upcoming trip and message to Israel. I was proud to show His Holiness a photograph of my family’s papal visit in the 1950s, as well as a recent picture of our children and grandchildren.
From the Press Office of the Holy See:
Following the General Audience, the Holy Father briefly greeted Mrs. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, together with her entourage. His Holiness took the opportunity to speak of the requirements of the natural moral law and the Church’s consistent teaching on the dignity of human life from conception until natural death, which enjoin all Catholics, and especially legislators, jurists, and those responsible for the common good of society, to work in cooperation with all men and women of good will in creating a just system of laws capable of protecting human life at all stages of development.
Were Benedict XVI and Nancy Pelosi in the same meeting, or even in the same city, this morning?
Charity requires that one concede the possibility that genuine piety was a part of Pelosi’s (rather boorish, and certainly irregular) insistence on being given a private moment with the pope during her current taxpayer-funded junket to Rome. But her office’s statement on today’s meeting makes it clear something else was afoot: that Pelosi, who shamelessly trumpets her “ardent” Catholicism while leading congressional Democrats in a continuing assault on what the Catholic Church regards as the inalienable human rights of the unborn, was trying to recruit Benedict XVI (“Joseph Ratzinger, D., Bavaria”?) to Team Nancy.
His Holiness wasn’t buying it.
He told Pelosi, politely but unmistakably, that her relentlessly pro-abortion politics put her in serious difficulties as a Catholic, which was his obligation as a pastor. He also underscored — for Pelosi, Joe Biden, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Barbara Mikulski, Rose DeLauro, Kathleen Sebelius, and everyone else — that the Church’s opposition to the taking of innocent human life, at any stage of the human journey, is not some weird Catholic hocus-pocus; it’s a first principle of justice than can be known by reason. It is a “requirement of the natural moral law” — that is, the moral truths we can know by thinking about what is right and what is wrong — to defend the inviolability of innocent human life. You don’t have to believe in papal primacy to know that; you don’t have do believe in seven sacraments, or the episcopal structure of the Church, or the divinity of Christ, to know that. You don’t even have to believe in God to know that. You only have to be a morally serious human being, willing to work through a moral argument — which, of course, means being the kind of person who understands that moral truth cannot be reduced to questions of feminist political correctness or partisan political advantage.
As her performance on Meet the Press prior to last year’s Democratic national convention made painfully clear, Pelosi is deeply confused about what her church teaches on the morality of abortion, and why. She may have come to her bizarre views on her own; it’s far more likely that she has been un-catechized, so to speak, by Catholic intellectuals and clerics who find Catholic teaching on life issues an embarrassment among their high-minded friends and colleagues of the progressive persuasion. Whatever the source of her confusion, Pelosi has now been informed, and by a world-class intellectual who happens to be the universal pastor of the Catholic Church, that she is, in fact, confused, and that both her spiritual life and her public service are in jeopardy because of that.
Moreover, it is reasonable to assume that Pope Benedict did not have only Pelosi in mind when he said what he had to say about the obligations of moral reason and the duties of statesmanship. President Obama is not a Catholic, but he should understand that he will get the same message if, as expected, he meets with His Holiness later this year.
— George Weigel is distinguished senior fellow of Washington’s Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he holds the William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies.
02/18 11:19 AM
But in any case, this is a pretty good article about what transpired. The culture wars cometh, I tell ya. I mean, they are already here, but I think they are going to get much, much nastier when people finally get fed up and say, "No, you may NOT do this." And then follow through. The follow through is going to be beastly. It's like finally deciding to discipline one's brat of a kid after 10 years of spoiling him. When you finally crack down, it's like the end of the world, so you put it off til you are good and ready.
I'm ready.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Were They At The Same Meeting? [George Weigel]
From the office of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi:
It is with great joy that my husband, Paul, and I met with His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, today. In our conversation, I had the opportunity to praise the Church’s leadership in fighting poverty, hunger, and global warming, as well as the Holy Father’s dedication to religious freedom and his upcoming trip and message to Israel. I was proud to show His Holiness a photograph of my family’s papal visit in the 1950s, as well as a recent picture of our children and grandchildren.
From the Press Office of the Holy See:
Following the General Audience, the Holy Father briefly greeted Mrs. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, together with her entourage. His Holiness took the opportunity to speak of the requirements of the natural moral law and the Church’s consistent teaching on the dignity of human life from conception until natural death, which enjoin all Catholics, and especially legislators, jurists, and those responsible for the common good of society, to work in cooperation with all men and women of good will in creating a just system of laws capable of protecting human life at all stages of development.
Were Benedict XVI and Nancy Pelosi in the same meeting, or even in the same city, this morning?
Charity requires that one concede the possibility that genuine piety was a part of Pelosi’s (rather boorish, and certainly irregular) insistence on being given a private moment with the pope during her current taxpayer-funded junket to Rome. But her office’s statement on today’s meeting makes it clear something else was afoot: that Pelosi, who shamelessly trumpets her “ardent” Catholicism while leading congressional Democrats in a continuing assault on what the Catholic Church regards as the inalienable human rights of the unborn, was trying to recruit Benedict XVI (“Joseph Ratzinger, D., Bavaria”?) to Team Nancy.
His Holiness wasn’t buying it.
He told Pelosi, politely but unmistakably, that her relentlessly pro-abortion politics put her in serious difficulties as a Catholic, which was his obligation as a pastor. He also underscored — for Pelosi, Joe Biden, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Barbara Mikulski, Rose DeLauro, Kathleen Sebelius, and everyone else — that the Church’s opposition to the taking of innocent human life, at any stage of the human journey, is not some weird Catholic hocus-pocus; it’s a first principle of justice than can be known by reason. It is a “requirement of the natural moral law” — that is, the moral truths we can know by thinking about what is right and what is wrong — to defend the inviolability of innocent human life. You don’t have to believe in papal primacy to know that; you don’t have do believe in seven sacraments, or the episcopal structure of the Church, or the divinity of Christ, to know that. You don’t even have to believe in God to know that. You only have to be a morally serious human being, willing to work through a moral argument — which, of course, means being the kind of person who understands that moral truth cannot be reduced to questions of feminist political correctness or partisan political advantage.
As her performance on Meet the Press prior to last year’s Democratic national convention made painfully clear, Pelosi is deeply confused about what her church teaches on the morality of abortion, and why. She may have come to her bizarre views on her own; it’s far more likely that she has been un-catechized, so to speak, by Catholic intellectuals and clerics who find Catholic teaching on life issues an embarrassment among their high-minded friends and colleagues of the progressive persuasion. Whatever the source of her confusion, Pelosi has now been informed, and by a world-class intellectual who happens to be the universal pastor of the Catholic Church, that she is, in fact, confused, and that both her spiritual life and her public service are in jeopardy because of that.
Moreover, it is reasonable to assume that Pope Benedict did not have only Pelosi in mind when he said what he had to say about the obligations of moral reason and the duties of statesmanship. President Obama is not a Catholic, but he should understand that he will get the same message if, as expected, he meets with His Holiness later this year.
— George Weigel is distinguished senior fellow of Washington’s Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he holds the William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies.
02/18 11:19 AM
Friday, January 23, 2009
Grow your own organs and no extra drugs
This is HUGE! Should have been front page news. There is no need to continue using aborted fetuses to grow stem cells. We have them in our own bodies. This lady didn't even have to use anti-rejection drugs!!
Woman Gets New Windpipe Using Her Own Stem Cells
By Randy Sly
11/20/2008
Catholic Online
Both the pro-life community - who affirm the use of adult stem cells - and medical researchers are thrilled with the results.
WASHINGTON (Catholic Online) - A Spanish woman made medical history recently by receiving a new windpipe which had been grown from her own stem cells. The announcement has brought tremendous excitement among the pro-life as well as medical communities. The former group cited this as additional evidence that adult stem cell research, which is in complete accord with catholic social teaching, is producing real results.
Claudia Castillo is a 30 year-old mother from Barcelona, Spain with a collapsed trachea, due to tuberculosis, that left her unable to breathe. Using a graft from a donor that was imbued with stem cells from the woman’s bone marrow, doctors were able to fashion a new organ that replaced her existing windpipe last June.
After only four months of recovery she was able to climb two flights of stairs, and even go dancing. She also is able to look after her children – another activity that were previously impossible.
By using the woman’s stem cells, Ms. Castillo becoming the first person to receive a whole organ transplant without the need for powerful immunosuppressant drugs. She still shows no signs of rejecting the new organ.
Professor Martin Birchall, of the University of Bristol, a British member of the team, told a press conference, "In 20 years' time the commonest surgical operations will be regenerative procedures to replace organs and tissues damaged by disease with autologous [self-grown] tissues and organs from the laboratory. We are on the verge of a new age in surgical care."
The procedure takes the medical community another step closer in their ability to replace damaged or worn-out organs with ones that will not be rejected. Researchers also report that this approach with personal stem cells also extends the range of organs and tissues that can be replaced.
When asked how she was doing, Ms. Castillo replied: “I was scared at the beginning because I was the first patient – but trusted the doctors. I am now enjoying life and am very happy that my illness has been cured.”
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Randy Sly is a communications specialist. A former Archbishop of the ICCEC, he served in full time Christian ministry for years. He and his wife Sandy came into the full communion of the Catholic Church three years ago. He is an associate editor for Catholic Online
Woman Gets New Windpipe Using Her Own Stem Cells
By Randy Sly
11/20/2008
Catholic Online
Both the pro-life community - who affirm the use of adult stem cells - and medical researchers are thrilled with the results.
WASHINGTON (Catholic Online) - A Spanish woman made medical history recently by receiving a new windpipe which had been grown from her own stem cells. The announcement has brought tremendous excitement among the pro-life as well as medical communities. The former group cited this as additional evidence that adult stem cell research, which is in complete accord with catholic social teaching, is producing real results.
Claudia Castillo is a 30 year-old mother from Barcelona, Spain with a collapsed trachea, due to tuberculosis, that left her unable to breathe. Using a graft from a donor that was imbued with stem cells from the woman’s bone marrow, doctors were able to fashion a new organ that replaced her existing windpipe last June.
After only four months of recovery she was able to climb two flights of stairs, and even go dancing. She also is able to look after her children – another activity that were previously impossible.
By using the woman’s stem cells, Ms. Castillo becoming the first person to receive a whole organ transplant without the need for powerful immunosuppressant drugs. She still shows no signs of rejecting the new organ.
Professor Martin Birchall, of the University of Bristol, a British member of the team, told a press conference, "In 20 years' time the commonest surgical operations will be regenerative procedures to replace organs and tissues damaged by disease with autologous [self-grown] tissues and organs from the laboratory. We are on the verge of a new age in surgical care."
The procedure takes the medical community another step closer in their ability to replace damaged or worn-out organs with ones that will not be rejected. Researchers also report that this approach with personal stem cells also extends the range of organs and tissues that can be replaced.
When asked how she was doing, Ms. Castillo replied: “I was scared at the beginning because I was the first patient – but trusted the doctors. I am now enjoying life and am very happy that my illness has been cured.”
****
Randy Sly is a communications specialist. A former Archbishop of the ICCEC, he served in full time Christian ministry for years. He and his wife Sandy came into the full communion of the Catholic Church three years ago. He is an associate editor for Catholic Online
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
20% layoffs for Planned Parenthood!
Yippee Skippee!
I remember wondering if things were going downhill this fall for Planned Parenthood, because they were often not open when the sign on the door said they would be. Yes, I'm one of those people who occasionally pray Rosaries outside the clinic. 40 Days for Life was a brilliant plan, and it brought a lot of people together.
It is very important to point out that, while I'm horrified by the loss of babies' lives through abortion, what really gets me in the heart are the mothers and their families. A miscarriage is an awful thing we have endured, twice, and I really can't imagine living with myself if I had done it on purpose.
There are also many, many reports of coerced abortions (by family or boyfriends), and many cases where men have suffered emotionally afterwards, because they had no say.
As for rape, incest, and the life of the mother, well, the leader of our local 40 Days For Life happens to be the son of a rape. He's about my dad's age, in his sixties. His mom had seizures, and she was raped, so even though it was pre-Roe vs. Wade, abortion was recommended because they did not think she could handle a baby. Instead, he was adopted at birth. He is rather happy to be alive. So there goes that argument for me. It's worth it to add, even if I supported that, only 1-3% of abortions are from those three reasons. The others are all some form of inconvenience, and it wrecks women's lives every day. Don't believe me? Go visit Project Rachel and meet some women.
Here is the best news from the Madoff scandal to date:
January 09, 2009 2:41 PM
Planned Parenthood makes staff cuts
Funding declines partly attributed to Madoff.
Print Email Comments(19) Miriam Kreinin Souccar
Hit with declines in funding from the economic crisis and the Madoff scandal, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America is laying off around 20% of its staff.
Roughly 30 people were let go earlier this week, according to a source who works for the nonprofit. Executives at Planned Parenthood confirmed the layoffs, but declined to give more details.
“As with many other nonprofit organizations, Planned Parenthood has had to make staff reductions at our headquarters due to the challenging economic times facing our country,” said Maryana Iskander, chief operating officer at the agency. “While taking this action is never easy, we want to ensure the millions of women and men who rely on Planned Parenthood as a health care provider that the reductions will not impact our ability to deliver care to those in need.”
Part of Planned Parenthood’s funding declines stem from the closing of the Florida-based Picower Foundation, which shut down in December because its assets were managed by Bernard Madoff. The $1 billion foundation was one of the few major funders of reproductive rights issues.
Filed Under :
Health Care , Nonprofits
I remember wondering if things were going downhill this fall for Planned Parenthood, because they were often not open when the sign on the door said they would be. Yes, I'm one of those people who occasionally pray Rosaries outside the clinic. 40 Days for Life was a brilliant plan, and it brought a lot of people together.
It is very important to point out that, while I'm horrified by the loss of babies' lives through abortion, what really gets me in the heart are the mothers and their families. A miscarriage is an awful thing we have endured, twice, and I really can't imagine living with myself if I had done it on purpose.
There are also many, many reports of coerced abortions (by family or boyfriends), and many cases where men have suffered emotionally afterwards, because they had no say.
As for rape, incest, and the life of the mother, well, the leader of our local 40 Days For Life happens to be the son of a rape. He's about my dad's age, in his sixties. His mom had seizures, and she was raped, so even though it was pre-Roe vs. Wade, abortion was recommended because they did not think she could handle a baby. Instead, he was adopted at birth. He is rather happy to be alive. So there goes that argument for me. It's worth it to add, even if I supported that, only 1-3% of abortions are from those three reasons. The others are all some form of inconvenience, and it wrecks women's lives every day. Don't believe me? Go visit Project Rachel and meet some women.
Here is the best news from the Madoff scandal to date:
January 09, 2009 2:41 PM
Planned Parenthood makes staff cuts
Funding declines partly attributed to Madoff.
Print Email Comments(19) Miriam Kreinin Souccar
Hit with declines in funding from the economic crisis and the Madoff scandal, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America is laying off around 20% of its staff.
Roughly 30 people were let go earlier this week, according to a source who works for the nonprofit. Executives at Planned Parenthood confirmed the layoffs, but declined to give more details.
“As with many other nonprofit organizations, Planned Parenthood has had to make staff reductions at our headquarters due to the challenging economic times facing our country,” said Maryana Iskander, chief operating officer at the agency. “While taking this action is never easy, we want to ensure the millions of women and men who rely on Planned Parenthood as a health care provider that the reductions will not impact our ability to deliver care to those in need.”
Part of Planned Parenthood’s funding declines stem from the closing of the Florida-based Picower Foundation, which shut down in December because its assets were managed by Bernard Madoff. The $1 billion foundation was one of the few major funders of reproductive rights issues.
Filed Under :
Health Care , Nonprofits
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Even serious pro-abortion folks think FOCA will not pass.
HOORAY!
WASHINGTON LETTER Nov-26-2008 (1,370 words) Backgrounder and analysis. With photos. xxxn
FOCA's effects seen as dire, but chance of it passing considered slim
By Patricia Zapor
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- About the only thing everyone with a stake in it is likely to agree on about the Freedom of Choice Act is that the legislation has languished in Congress for 20 years, only once rising -- just barely -- above the fate of hundreds of bills that are introduced each session and never heard from again.
What's harder to nail down is whether the bill, known as FOCA, is going anywhere under the 111th Congress that begins in January.
Although there was no effort in the 110th Congress to move the bill along, pro-life organizations have since the summer been sounding the alarm about what would happen to current restrictions on abortion if a Democrat was elected president.
They also voice concerns for possible administrative actions under Democratic President-elect Barack Obama, such as reversing the ban on federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research; and repealing the Hyde amendment, which bars federal funding of abortions, and the Mexico City policy, which prohibits foreign aid money from going to family planning programs that promote and offer abortion.
But stopping FOCA has become the rallying cry for the American Life League, the National Right to Life Committee and Priests for Life, among other pro-life groups. It was the central focus of a statement about the government transition issued Nov. 12 on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops by its president, Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago, during the bishops' general fall meeting.
A legal analysis of the most recent version of FOCA by the general counsel's staff of the USCCB warned that it would wipe out many existing state laws and impede states' ability to regulate abortion.
The analysis cited as examples laws that could be overturned if FOCA became law such as: parental notification requirements; abortion clinic regulations; bars to government funding of abortion; prohibitions on procedures such as partial-birth abortion; and laws protecting the right of medical personnel and institutions to decline to participate in abortions.
In statements by pro-life leaders, much of the concern about FOCA refers to President-elect Barack Obama's July 2007 answer to a question during an address to a Planned Parenthood group that signing the bill would be "the first thing I'd do as president."
But that presupposes FOCA gets out of Congress.
Spokesmen for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, and the bill's chief sponsor, Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, all declined to discuss the prospects of any specific bill in a legislative session that doesn't start until January.
All pending bills expire at the end of each two-year congressional session, so FOCA would have to be reintroduced.
Erica Chabot, press secretary to the Senate Judiciary Committee, said she can't recall Leahy "ever mentioning this piece of legislation." That doesn't necessarily mean it couldn't suddenly move up on the committee's priority list, she said.
However, "if there were overwhelming support for a bill, chances are I would have heard something about it," Chabot told Catholic News Service.
Staffers for those Democratic leaders and staffers for other members of Congress -- Democrats and Republicans -- all emphasized that the priorities of the 111th Congress will be the economy and the Iraq War. Speaking on background, several said passing FOCA is not a priority for members of Congress.
Kristin Day, executive director of Democrats for Life, called FOCA a radical bill, but while it's worthwhile to highlight its problems, "I don't think it's likely to pass anytime soon."
Day said it's more likely that administrative orders will reverse the Mexico City policy or expand federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research. She wonders why there isn't more effort being put into highlighting opposition to such changes.
At a Democrats for Life event during the Democratic National Convention, Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., called FOCA "dead on arrival," Day said. She said pro-life Democrats including Casey and Reps. Lincoln Davis of Tennessee and Heath Shuler of North Carolina, who backed Obama during the campaign, expect their voices to matter when it comes to the legislative priorities of the White House.
Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee, told CNS that FOCA's inertia so far doesn't diminish the danger of it progressing now.
FOCA moved forward only in 1993, when Democrats controlled the House, Senate and the White House for the first time in 12 years. Introduced in the first days of the 103rd Congress, the House and Senate Judiciary committees quickly moved it on for floor scheduling within weeks.
But it never came up for debate or a vote in the House or Senate.
Johnson is skeptical that pro-life congressional Democrats are numerous enough or powerful enough to stop a serious push to move FOCA forward if the party's leaders want it to advance. He is especially skeptical of whether the Senate majority leader would prove any obstacle to FOCA, despite Reid's pro-life voting record.
"Reid would be no impediment at all," he said. "His history has been that he may vote against something in the end after doing everything he can to have the pro-abortion side win," for instance by putting a bill on the floor for a vote.
Johnson acknowledged that it's unclear that either house of Congress has the votes to pass FOCA. He said there are more supporters of legal abortion in Congress than there were in 1993, though that doesn't necessarily translate to votes for the bill.
"Anybody who's even halfway pro-life isn't going to support FOCA," said Johnson.
NARAL Pro-Choice America, which supports FOCA and opposes any restrictions on abortion, counts both the House and Senate next term as having pro-life majorities. It projects 204 House members who generally oppose NARAL's agenda, and 185 who support it. It says another 46 members have a "mixed" record. NARAL counts 42 opponents of its issues in the Senate and 40 supporters, with 18 of "mixed" records.
Johnson credits a nationwide postcard campaign opposing the bill in 1993 with helping keep it from reaching a vote. But the makeup of Congress has changed significantly since then, he noted.
"Many of the current members of Congress weren't members in 1993," he said. "Lots of lawmakers have never paid any attention to FOCA." He said that raises the risk of "the other side" defining FOCA as more benign than how abortion opponents interpret it. FOCA opponents plan a new postcard campaign beginning in January.
Sister Carol Keehan, a Daughter of Charity who is president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association, has concerns about people outside Catholic health care "saying Catholic health care institutions are going to close" should FOCA become law, she told CNS.
She said CHA has always opposed FOCA and will continue to do so. But "even if this bad legislation were to pass, we would not be forced to participate (in providing abortions) and we will fight for that," she said.
Catholic health care institutions will not dismantle their systems or compromise their principles, she said. "We have many examples in this country of how to respond to unjust laws and we have learned from them. We will protect Catholic health care in this country without compromising our position on abortion."
First, however, Sister Carol said, "we must focus on protecting mothers and their unborn children."
"The first thing we are called to do is redouble our efforts to be sure pregnant women do not see abortion as their only option," she said in a statement released Nov. 24. Easily accessible and high quality obstetrical care, assistance with food stamps, housing, education and child care, can help women feel they have options other than abortion, she said.
She said CHA has been in touch with Obama's transition team, as they were with Sen. John McCain's aides when they were planning a possible transition.
"We've found (Obama's staff) more than willing to discuss our perspective," she said. "They recognize we play a fairly significant role in health care and are a large part of the social safety net."
END
WASHINGTON LETTER Nov-26-2008 (1,370 words) Backgrounder and analysis. With photos. xxxn
FOCA's effects seen as dire, but chance of it passing considered slim
By Patricia Zapor
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- About the only thing everyone with a stake in it is likely to agree on about the Freedom of Choice Act is that the legislation has languished in Congress for 20 years, only once rising -- just barely -- above the fate of hundreds of bills that are introduced each session and never heard from again.
What's harder to nail down is whether the bill, known as FOCA, is going anywhere under the 111th Congress that begins in January.
Although there was no effort in the 110th Congress to move the bill along, pro-life organizations have since the summer been sounding the alarm about what would happen to current restrictions on abortion if a Democrat was elected president.
They also voice concerns for possible administrative actions under Democratic President-elect Barack Obama, such as reversing the ban on federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research; and repealing the Hyde amendment, which bars federal funding of abortions, and the Mexico City policy, which prohibits foreign aid money from going to family planning programs that promote and offer abortion.
But stopping FOCA has become the rallying cry for the American Life League, the National Right to Life Committee and Priests for Life, among other pro-life groups. It was the central focus of a statement about the government transition issued Nov. 12 on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops by its president, Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago, during the bishops' general fall meeting.
A legal analysis of the most recent version of FOCA by the general counsel's staff of the USCCB warned that it would wipe out many existing state laws and impede states' ability to regulate abortion.
The analysis cited as examples laws that could be overturned if FOCA became law such as: parental notification requirements; abortion clinic regulations; bars to government funding of abortion; prohibitions on procedures such as partial-birth abortion; and laws protecting the right of medical personnel and institutions to decline to participate in abortions.
In statements by pro-life leaders, much of the concern about FOCA refers to President-elect Barack Obama's July 2007 answer to a question during an address to a Planned Parenthood group that signing the bill would be "the first thing I'd do as president."
But that presupposes FOCA gets out of Congress.
Spokesmen for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, and the bill's chief sponsor, Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, all declined to discuss the prospects of any specific bill in a legislative session that doesn't start until January.
All pending bills expire at the end of each two-year congressional session, so FOCA would have to be reintroduced.
Erica Chabot, press secretary to the Senate Judiciary Committee, said she can't recall Leahy "ever mentioning this piece of legislation." That doesn't necessarily mean it couldn't suddenly move up on the committee's priority list, she said.
However, "if there were overwhelming support for a bill, chances are I would have heard something about it," Chabot told Catholic News Service.
Staffers for those Democratic leaders and staffers for other members of Congress -- Democrats and Republicans -- all emphasized that the priorities of the 111th Congress will be the economy and the Iraq War. Speaking on background, several said passing FOCA is not a priority for members of Congress.
Kristin Day, executive director of Democrats for Life, called FOCA a radical bill, but while it's worthwhile to highlight its problems, "I don't think it's likely to pass anytime soon."
Day said it's more likely that administrative orders will reverse the Mexico City policy or expand federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research. She wonders why there isn't more effort being put into highlighting opposition to such changes.
At a Democrats for Life event during the Democratic National Convention, Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., called FOCA "dead on arrival," Day said. She said pro-life Democrats including Casey and Reps. Lincoln Davis of Tennessee and Heath Shuler of North Carolina, who backed Obama during the campaign, expect their voices to matter when it comes to the legislative priorities of the White House.
Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee, told CNS that FOCA's inertia so far doesn't diminish the danger of it progressing now.
FOCA moved forward only in 1993, when Democrats controlled the House, Senate and the White House for the first time in 12 years. Introduced in the first days of the 103rd Congress, the House and Senate Judiciary committees quickly moved it on for floor scheduling within weeks.
But it never came up for debate or a vote in the House or Senate.
Johnson is skeptical that pro-life congressional Democrats are numerous enough or powerful enough to stop a serious push to move FOCA forward if the party's leaders want it to advance. He is especially skeptical of whether the Senate majority leader would prove any obstacle to FOCA, despite Reid's pro-life voting record.
"Reid would be no impediment at all," he said. "His history has been that he may vote against something in the end after doing everything he can to have the pro-abortion side win," for instance by putting a bill on the floor for a vote.
Johnson acknowledged that it's unclear that either house of Congress has the votes to pass FOCA. He said there are more supporters of legal abortion in Congress than there were in 1993, though that doesn't necessarily translate to votes for the bill.
"Anybody who's even halfway pro-life isn't going to support FOCA," said Johnson.
NARAL Pro-Choice America, which supports FOCA and opposes any restrictions on abortion, counts both the House and Senate next term as having pro-life majorities. It projects 204 House members who generally oppose NARAL's agenda, and 185 who support it. It says another 46 members have a "mixed" record. NARAL counts 42 opponents of its issues in the Senate and 40 supporters, with 18 of "mixed" records.
Johnson credits a nationwide postcard campaign opposing the bill in 1993 with helping keep it from reaching a vote. But the makeup of Congress has changed significantly since then, he noted.
"Many of the current members of Congress weren't members in 1993," he said. "Lots of lawmakers have never paid any attention to FOCA." He said that raises the risk of "the other side" defining FOCA as more benign than how abortion opponents interpret it. FOCA opponents plan a new postcard campaign beginning in January.
Sister Carol Keehan, a Daughter of Charity who is president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association, has concerns about people outside Catholic health care "saying Catholic health care institutions are going to close" should FOCA become law, she told CNS.
She said CHA has always opposed FOCA and will continue to do so. But "even if this bad legislation were to pass, we would not be forced to participate (in providing abortions) and we will fight for that," she said.
Catholic health care institutions will not dismantle their systems or compromise their principles, she said. "We have many examples in this country of how to respond to unjust laws and we have learned from them. We will protect Catholic health care in this country without compromising our position on abortion."
First, however, Sister Carol said, "we must focus on protecting mothers and their unborn children."
"The first thing we are called to do is redouble our efforts to be sure pregnant women do not see abortion as their only option," she said in a statement released Nov. 24. Easily accessible and high quality obstetrical care, assistance with food stamps, housing, education and child care, can help women feel they have options other than abortion, she said.
She said CHA has been in touch with Obama's transition team, as they were with Sen. John McCain's aides when they were planning a possible transition.
"We've found (Obama's staff) more than willing to discuss our perspective," she said. "They recognize we play a fairly significant role in health care and are a large part of the social safety net."
END
Sunday, November 9, 2008
FOCA -- huge threat to our constitution and many other things
Please sign the petition you'll find here. I told a pro-life person about this and he said, "What is that?" Um... it's really scary, that's what it is. It's a steamroller and will mow over other state's rights to limit abortion. Obama says it will be one of the first things he signs into law. You'd think the economy would be more important. Or Iraq. So hopefully it will be further down his list.
Please spread the word!
http://www.fightfoca.com/
Please spread the word!
http://www.fightfoca.com/
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Monday, November 3, 2008
40 Days for Life is over ... for now.
This fall I participated in 40 Days for Life. It was very interesting. Every time I went out on the sidewalk, I heard stories I needed to hear. The last one was a woman who has been doing ministry by going to jails to talk with people. At one visit, a woman was being released from jail and intended to have an abortion when she got out. This woman who has been visiting offered to help her get help to raise the baby and to find ways for her to stay off drugs and the boyfriend to stay off alcohol. The baby was born ten days ago, and the parents are referring to this woman as "grandma". They are staying off the bad stuff because of her. She is making a real difference in lives, not just by holding signs and protesting abortion, but dedicating a portion of her life to supporting strangers when they need someone most. If all of us reached out to just one person in this way, this world would certainly be a different place. It was so good to hear her story.
Here is the news release from this fall's 40 Days for Life.
National 40 Days for Life Campaign Director David Bereit
Washington DC, Nov 1, 2008 / 12:03 pm (CNA).- The pro-life organization 40 Days for Life is nearing the end of its Fall campaign of prayer, fasting, and vigils near abortion facilities. Leaders claimed the campaign helped save 441 babies from abortion and advanced outreach to those who suffer the aftereffects of or have assisted in abortions.
The campaign began on September 24 and included participants in 175 communities in 47 states and two Canadian provinces. It formally ends on Sunday.
“Even after praying and fasting for 40 days - and being involved in vigils that in many cities went round the clock, seven days a week -many of the people who are participating in this campaign simply don't want to see it end," said David Bereit, national campaign director of 40 Days for Life. "Tens of thousands of people have prayed in front of abortion facilities, many for the first time. They see the impact of that peaceful presence, and they yearn to keep going."
"People across the country have expressed an interest in getting involved in the effort to end abortion," Bereit continued, "but far too often, they didn't know where to start. 40 Days for Life provided a starting point. Now they've seen what can happen; and now that they've taken that first step, they're eagerly anticipating additional opportunities for continuing their pro-life outreach."
Bereit added that the campaign’s vigils show the importance of being physically present at the clinics.
“This is where the evil of abortion is committed; this is where the evil of abortion must be confronted. People who seek the services of abortionists are people who have lost hope. The sight of people engaged in peaceful, prayerful vigil sends a message of hope at precisely the time these women need it the most. We must - and we will - continue to be present to offer that hope.”
Some volunteers in some cities are discussing extending the daily vigils, even until the clinics are closed. Volunteers have reportedly expressed interest in becoming involved in sidewalk counseling, post-abortion ministry and pregnancy resource centers.
“We know of at least 441 lives that were saved from abortion as a result of the 40 Days for Life effort thus far," said Bereit. "But those are not the only lives that have been changed. We hear every day about people seeking help who have been dealing with abortion experiences - some of them have been hurting for more than 30 years. There are people in the abortion industry who have been touched by this effort. They, too, are witnessing the power of prayer at work first hand.”
“We've seen the evidence that God has blessed this effort, and we can't wait to see where He will lead us next,” Bereit concluded.
Here is the news release from this fall's 40 Days for Life.
National 40 Days for Life Campaign Director David Bereit
Washington DC, Nov 1, 2008 / 12:03 pm (CNA).- The pro-life organization 40 Days for Life is nearing the end of its Fall campaign of prayer, fasting, and vigils near abortion facilities. Leaders claimed the campaign helped save 441 babies from abortion and advanced outreach to those who suffer the aftereffects of or have assisted in abortions.
The campaign began on September 24 and included participants in 175 communities in 47 states and two Canadian provinces. It formally ends on Sunday.
“Even after praying and fasting for 40 days - and being involved in vigils that in many cities went round the clock, seven days a week -many of the people who are participating in this campaign simply don't want to see it end," said David Bereit, national campaign director of 40 Days for Life. "Tens of thousands of people have prayed in front of abortion facilities, many for the first time. They see the impact of that peaceful presence, and they yearn to keep going."
"People across the country have expressed an interest in getting involved in the effort to end abortion," Bereit continued, "but far too often, they didn't know where to start. 40 Days for Life provided a starting point. Now they've seen what can happen; and now that they've taken that first step, they're eagerly anticipating additional opportunities for continuing their pro-life outreach."
Bereit added that the campaign’s vigils show the importance of being physically present at the clinics.
“This is where the evil of abortion is committed; this is where the evil of abortion must be confronted. People who seek the services of abortionists are people who have lost hope. The sight of people engaged in peaceful, prayerful vigil sends a message of hope at precisely the time these women need it the most. We must - and we will - continue to be present to offer that hope.”
Some volunteers in some cities are discussing extending the daily vigils, even until the clinics are closed. Volunteers have reportedly expressed interest in becoming involved in sidewalk counseling, post-abortion ministry and pregnancy resource centers.
“We know of at least 441 lives that were saved from abortion as a result of the 40 Days for Life effort thus far," said Bereit. "But those are not the only lives that have been changed. We hear every day about people seeking help who have been dealing with abortion experiences - some of them have been hurting for more than 30 years. There are people in the abortion industry who have been touched by this effort. They, too, are witnessing the power of prayer at work first hand.”
“We've seen the evidence that God has blessed this effort, and we can't wait to see where He will lead us next,” Bereit concluded.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
"Bella" actor speaks up
Check it out on YouTube! The video is there. Think he's crazy? Then you should look up what Margaret Sanger wanted to do when she founded Planned Parenthood -- Get rid of the poor and minorities, they are useless anyway.
I don't make this stuff up.
Famous Mexican actor rips Obama over abortion, warns U.S. Latinos
Los Angeles, Sep 24, 2008 / 04:34 pm (CNA).- The movie star Eduardo Verástegui has recorded a special video message to encourage Hispanic voters in the U.S. to put an end to abortion and to expose the radical abortion position of presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Verástegui, who is perhaps best known in the U.S. for his pro-life film "Bella," presents his challenge to Latino voters by calling attention to the fact that most abortion clinics are located in Hispanic neighborhoods and that the Spanish media is saturated with pro-abortion advertising.
“Abortion is not only a lucrative industry; it is also used by people who are racist as a means to eliminate our people, since they consider us to be a threat to democracy in this country,” Verástegui asserts.
After noting that more than 3,000 babies are aborted each day in the U.S. and that 650 of those babies are Hispanic, the actor states that abortion is legal “because there are not enough men and women who raise their voice against abortion.”
“We need to put an end to abortion and political candidates play a very important role in this matter,” he continued, pointing out that Obama supports abortions performed during the last trimester of pregnancy, inhuman partial birth abortion,” and that Obama “wants to finance abortions with the tax dollars you and I pay.”
As a lawmaker, Obama “voted on several occasions against a law to protect babies who survived an abortion and were born alive,” Verástegui states.
“Obama is committed to removing all the pro-life laws that in many states currently offer protection to unborn babies and their mothers. Mr. Obama does not agree that the parents of a 13 year-old girl who is pregnant should be notified before she has an abortion,” the actor underscored.
“Obama is more interested in maintaining the legality of abortion that in the well-being of the babies, children and families of this country. Let us unite and do something to defend life at every stage, from conception to natural death,” he says.
Verástegui's message about Obama is punctuated by clips from the video “The Hard Truth,” which shows graphic images from real abortions. The Mexican actor explains that just as teachers in schools show videos of the Holocaust to expose the truth about the atrocities committed by the Nazis, he too is including the video to show the horror of abortion.
I don't make this stuff up.
Famous Mexican actor rips Obama over abortion, warns U.S. Latinos
Los Angeles, Sep 24, 2008 / 04:34 pm (CNA).- The movie star Eduardo Verástegui has recorded a special video message to encourage Hispanic voters in the U.S. to put an end to abortion and to expose the radical abortion position of presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Verástegui, who is perhaps best known in the U.S. for his pro-life film "Bella," presents his challenge to Latino voters by calling attention to the fact that most abortion clinics are located in Hispanic neighborhoods and that the Spanish media is saturated with pro-abortion advertising.
“Abortion is not only a lucrative industry; it is also used by people who are racist as a means to eliminate our people, since they consider us to be a threat to democracy in this country,” Verástegui asserts.
After noting that more than 3,000 babies are aborted each day in the U.S. and that 650 of those babies are Hispanic, the actor states that abortion is legal “because there are not enough men and women who raise their voice against abortion.”
“We need to put an end to abortion and political candidates play a very important role in this matter,” he continued, pointing out that Obama supports abortions performed during the last trimester of pregnancy, inhuman partial birth abortion,” and that Obama “wants to finance abortions with the tax dollars you and I pay.”
As a lawmaker, Obama “voted on several occasions against a law to protect babies who survived an abortion and were born alive,” Verástegui states.
“Obama is committed to removing all the pro-life laws that in many states currently offer protection to unborn babies and their mothers. Mr. Obama does not agree that the parents of a 13 year-old girl who is pregnant should be notified before she has an abortion,” the actor underscored.
“Obama is more interested in maintaining the legality of abortion that in the well-being of the babies, children and families of this country. Let us unite and do something to defend life at every stage, from conception to natural death,” he says.
Verástegui's message about Obama is punctuated by clips from the video “The Hard Truth,” which shows graphic images from real abortions. The Mexican actor explains that just as teachers in schools show videos of the Holocaust to expose the truth about the atrocities committed by the Nazis, he too is including the video to show the horror of abortion.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Follow this link to see what the USCCB (United States Council of Catholic Bishops) has to say about Pelosi's position that the Catholic Church is still debating the idea of whether abortion is intrinsically evil. Up until 1930, all the other churches agreed.
There is also an article floating around which points out that a Planned Parenthood spokesperson "feels sorry" for Bristol Palin for being "forced" by her Christian mother to keep the baby and marry the father. I strongly doubt there was any forcing going on. However, that same person does not seem to understand that some girls are coerced into abortions by their pro-choice mothers, so please tell me which is worse??
I think the Palin's have handled things 10 times better than most parents, especially given the public eye on them at all times. I don't think I could be so gracious to my daughter, her boyfriend, or to the reporters. Cut the family a break!
Check Life Site News for more articles along those lines.
Meanwhile, this should straighten out Catholic teaching on the issue.
http://www.usccb.org/prolife/constantchurchteaching.shtml
There is also an article floating around which points out that a Planned Parenthood spokesperson "feels sorry" for Bristol Palin for being "forced" by her Christian mother to keep the baby and marry the father. I strongly doubt there was any forcing going on. However, that same person does not seem to understand that some girls are coerced into abortions by their pro-choice mothers, so please tell me which is worse??
I think the Palin's have handled things 10 times better than most parents, especially given the public eye on them at all times. I don't think I could be so gracious to my daughter, her boyfriend, or to the reporters. Cut the family a break!
Check Life Site News for more articles along those lines.
Meanwhile, this should straighten out Catholic teaching on the issue.
http://www.usccb.org/prolife/constantchurchteaching.shtml
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