Flawed Thinking

I would highly suggest that those who disagree with the tenets of the Church move over to the Episcopal Church. It is a church now where "anything goes" . You can't rationalize your way on the abortion is.
It is easy to be for abortion . .you're alive . .so what's the problem? The problem is primarily that people who are more than willing to be pro-choice become somewhat selfish in their judgments. "I am alive" so why should I care why a woman wants to have an abortion?

There are Catholics like the Kmiecs,, et alii who rationalize any and everything about the tenets of the Church. Personally, they should not be teaching in Catholic Universities ..if there are any true Catholic Universities around anymore.

Life . ...the greatest gift has given to us because within us resides grace which is terms is the Spirit of God. Why would one want to destroy or be indifferent to the abortion issue?

Amazing!!!!!

Joseph
Baton Rouge, La.

Two points: One, Gov. Casey was denied a speaking role at the 1992 convention because he refused to endorse the presumptive nominee, Bill Clinton. His anti choice views had nothing to do with it. Two, in your rush to condemn the Democratic Party as single minded on this issue you disregard the fact that the current Majority Leader, Harry Reid, scored a whopping 29% from NARAL.

Two points: One, Gov. Casey was denied a speaking role at the 1992 convention because he refused to endorse the presumptive nominee, Bill Clinton. His anti choice views had nothing to do with it. Two, in your rush to condemn the Democratic Party as single minded on this issue you disregard the fact that the current Majority Leader, Harry Reid, scored a whopping 29% from NARAL.

I am a pro-life Catholic. Like you, I bought into the notion that my religious belief on this single issue required me to vote for the GOP in 2000 - house, senate, and president. Eight years later - six of those being a solid majority of the house, senate, president, and Supreme Court - what did this pro-life government do for the abortion issue? Diddly squat.

There is so much more to being a Catholic than the single issue of abortion. War, poverty, and capital punishment are three biggies that the prototypical "Pro-Life" candidates ignore (if not encourage).

Yes, A Pro-Life Catholic can endorse an individual who happens to be pro-choice. This Catholic has already voted for Barack Obama.

I got a vasectomy back in 1978 and don't care about abortion one way or the other anyway. But what about miscarriages? I got thisd gfrom Wikipedia: "...Determining the prevalence of miscarriage is difficult. Many miscarriages happen very early in the pregnancy, before a woman may know she is pregnant. Treatment of women with miscarriage at home means medical statistics on miscarriage miss many cases.[26] Prospective studies using very sensitive early pregnancy tests have found that 25% of pregnancies are miscarried by the sixth week LMP (since the woman's Last Menstrual Period).[27][28] Clinical miscarriages (those occurring after the sixth week LMP) occur in 8% of pregnancies.[28]

So we see that whoever causes all these miscarriages is the greates abortionist in the world. Is it God--or Satan!

I am a working mother who owns her own small business with a young adult daughter. These types of discussions do come up. The majority of Americans and an overwhelming majority of women support Roe v. Wade. You are wrong. It is our right to privacy. Not all religions take as narrow a view of abortion as you do. The best thing to do is make birth control as easily accessible, affordable, fitting lifestyles with education. That will lower the abortion rate beyond all else. Educating women lowers the pregnancy rate and abortion rate. Greater education and civil rights are good for all. Y

I whole heartedly disagree with you. Your article is misrepresentation to say the lease. First, the majority of "women" believe that Roe vs Wade decision should stay the way it is. Second, the majority of our population believe that the reversal of laws to pre-Roe vs. Wade should not happen. You are simply writing an article and saying what you believe. That isn't helpful to any debate. Your comments about Senator Obama leave out his public record of interviews by the media, speeches, and seminar discussions. You are just plain wrong.

This statement floors me: "The full implementation of the most radical interpretation of Roe would seem to be the goal of Obama's support for the federal Freedom of Choice Act [FOCA], which, by stripping Catholic doctors of 'conscience clause' protections currently in state laws, would put thousands of Catholic physicians in jeopardy." Catholic physicians are in jeopardy? Are you KIDDING me? What about the women desperately seeking objective medical advice who get turned away because their situation doesn't align with some self-righteous doctor's personal beliefs? Outrageous.

No leader on the right DARES to repeal Roe v. Wade -- how else would they drive their lunatic supporters to the polls? As long as Roe is around, the GOP will continue to trumpet that Dems. are the party that "hates life" and wants getting an abortion to be like super-sizing your fries or getting one of Sarah Palin's lattes. NO ONE wants more abortions..but as long as Dems. have to defend themselves against charges that they're baby-killers, the GOP will keep it as an issue, despite not wanting to do A sman thing about it.

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I agree with you.It is not necessary to be a religious fundamentalist to understand that the SCOTUS in Roe invented a right that is simply not constitutionally mandated but,the majority thought, was socially desirable.Nor is it necessary to be anti-abortion to be repulsed by infanticide.Senator Obama's views on these matters demonstrate intellectual dishonesty, to say the least

Obama Praised 'Searing and Timely' Book by Ayers
Barack Obama once gave a glowing endorsement of a book by former domestic terrorist William Ayers and was mentioned by name in the book itself. This story is about two gay men who could not stand to be away from each other. Kind of like "Brokeback Mountain".

The most important aspect of our inalienable right afforded to us by our Contitution (the rules and morals ALL AMERICANS LIVE AND GOVERN THEIR LIVES BY) the radical "pro-life" advocates (ie the Catholic Church) conveniently overlook is LIBERTY. In this context liberty equates to CHOICE. To create laws and pass judgment in order to limit one's , nay, all person's LIBERTY is as unamerican as you can get. We write laws that punish deeds, but we never right laws that take away the choice the do those deeds.

"No expression of today's commitment to liberty and justice for all can be more basic than the protection offered to those in society who are most vulnerable." Does this apply to Vietnamese children who happened to be underneath John MCain when he bombed them in Vietnam? Are you stating a universal Christian position or just one that applies to only Americans?

thank you. God bless you. you're a voice of sanity in this apparent free fall

This is a dangerous thing to say, probably, but we all have to depart from this life, this way or that. In an ideal world we would all live to die in sleep of old age. This doesn't happen. Who is to decide, then, what way we leave this world and when? What if abortion comes as the best pro-life choice in certain cases? Had Hitler been aborted, would have the world been better? Who is to judge this? A moral dogma? No, not in my opinion. It must be left on the mother and the people close to her, on their judgment,on trying to figure out the best thing to do. I know, I was given this chance to live, and I do think that it's best to take up the responsibility for one's own actions, but I would never say to any woman, look, you can't do this, or else you go to prison. This would be a total misunderstanding of the life's nature. The Catholic church should shed its fears and treat this world the way it was meant to be - yes to homosexual marriages (it's up to them to decide, the church can only provide leads), yes to the idea that even animals have souls, and many other things that the church isn't able to comprehend. The church's main and only goal is to help and lead to where the truth lies, not in politicking and thinking - this can be, of course, but one has to have that main goal on mind, because anything apart from it is unsubstatial. Church isn't here to judge, so any of its statements, decisions even, partial to legislation, are but dust in one's eyes if they don't follow truth.