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Don’t Be Surprised that the Anti-Abortion Movement is Run By Its Fringe

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What Mother Teresa said:
"... the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child ... Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion."
http://www.priestsforlife.org/brochures/mtspeech.html

ComPassion of IN 10:28PM August 03, 2009

What Pope John Paul II said:
A) "In the case of an intrinsically unjust law, such as a law permitting abortion or euthanasia, it is therefore never licit to obey it, or to "take part in a propaganda campaign in favour of such a law, or vote for it".98"
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_25031995_evangelium-vitae_en.html
B) "I would like to say a special word to women who have had an abortion. The Church is aware of the many factors which may have influenced your decision, and she does not doubt that in many cases it was a painful and even shattering decision. The wound in your heart may not yet have healed. Certainly what happened was and remains terribly wrong. But do not give in to discouragement and do not lose hope. Try rather to understand what happened and face it honestly."
http://www.catholicplanet.com/prolife/JP2.htm

ComPassion of IN 10:26PM August 03, 2009

What Pope Benedict said:
"For this reason, it is necessary to help all people to be aware that the intrinsic evil of the crime of abortion, which attacks human life at its beginning, is also an aggression against society itself..."
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0506904.htm

ComPassion of IN 10:25PM August 03, 2009

What Billy Graham said:
I know it's common today to think of abortion as a simple answer to an inconvenient problem—but it is actually a far more serious issue. Your child isn't simply a mass of tissue; he or she is a human being in God's eyes. God told Jeremiah, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart" (Jeremiah 1:5).
http://www.billygraham.org/MyAnswer_Article.asp?ArticleID=1672

ComPassion of IN 10:24PM August 03, 2009

STATEMENT of the President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
"If the Lord does not build the house, in vain do its builders labor; if the Lord does not watch over the city, in vain does the watchman keep vigil." (Psalm 127, vs. 1)
The Bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States welcome this moment of historic transition and look forward to working with President-elect Obama and the members of the new Congress for the common good of all. Because of the Church's history and the scope of her ministries in this country, we want to continue our work for economic justice and opportunity for all; our efforts to reform laws around immigration and the situation of the undocumented; our provision of better education and adequate health care for all, especially for women and children; our desire to safeguard religious freedom and foster peace at home and abroad. The Church is intent on doing good and will continue to cooperate gladly with the government and all others working for these goods.
The fundamental good is life itself, a gift from God and our parents. A good state protects the lives of all. Legal protection for those members of the human family waiting to be born in this country was removed when the Supreme Court decided Roe vs. Wade in 1973. This was bad law. The danger the Bishops see at this moment is that a bad court decision will be enshrined in bad legislation that is more radical than the 1973 Supreme Court decision itself.
In the last Congress, a Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) was introduced that would, if brought forward in the same form today, outlaw any "interference" in providing abortion at will. It would deprive the American people in all fifty states of the freedom they now have to enact modest restraints and regulations on the abortion industry. FOCA would coerce all Americans into subsidizing and promoting abortion with their tax dollars. It would counteract any and all sincere efforts by government and others of good will to reduce the number of abortions in our country.
Parental notification and informed consent precautions would be outlawed, as would be laws banning procedures such as partial-birth abortion and protecting infants born alive after a failed abortion. Abortion clinics would be deregulated. The Hyde Amendment restricting the federal funding of abortions would be abrogated. FOCA would have lethal consequences for prenatal human life.
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ComPassion of IN 12:41AM August 02, 2009

FOCA would have an equally destructive effect on the freedom of conscience of doctors, nurses and health care workers whose personal convictions do not permit them to cooperate in the private killing of unborn children. It would threaten Catholic health care institutions and Catholic Charities. It would be an evil law that would further divide our country, and the Church should be intent on opposing evil.
On this issue, the legal protection of the unborn, the bishops are of one mind with Catholics and others of good will. They are also pastors who have listened to women whose lives have been diminished because they believed they had no choice but to abort a baby. Abortion is a medical procedure that kills, and the psychological and spiritual consequences are written in the sorrow and depression of many women and men. The bishops are single-minded because they are, first of all, single-hearted.
The recent election was principally decided out of concern for the economy, for the loss of jobs and homes and financial security for families, here and around the world. If the election is misinterpreted ideologically as a referendum on abortion, the unity desired by President-elect Obama and all Americans at this moment of crisis will be impossible to achieve. Abortion kills not only unborn children; it destroys constitutional order and the common good, which is assured only when the life of every human being is legally protected. Aggressively pro-abortion policies, legislation and executive orders will permanently alienate tens of millions of Americans, and would be seen by many as an attack on the free exercise of their religion.
This statement is written at the request and direction of all the Bishops, who also want to thank all those in politics who work with good will to protect the lives of the most vulnerable among us. Those in public life do so, sometimes, at the cost of great sacrifice to themselves and their families; and we are grateful. We express again our great desire to work with all those who cherish the common good of our nation. The common good is not the sum total of individual desires and interests; it is achieved in the working out of a common life based upon good reason and good will for all.
Our prayers accompany President-elect Obama and his family and those who are cooperating with him to assure a smooth transition in government. Many issues demand immediate attention on the part of our elected "watchman." (Psalm 127) May God bless him and our country.
Hyperlink to this article: http://www.usccb.org/comm/archives/2008/08-174.shtml
Hyperlink to the USCCB wiebsite: http://www.usccb.org/
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ComPassion of IN 12:38AM August 02, 2009

Words from someone that most people Respect and Listen to:
From Mother Teresa's speech in America(1994):
"America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts -- a child -- as a competitor, an intrusion, and an inconvenience. It has nominally accorded mothers unfettered dominion over the independent lives of their physically dependent sons and daughters.
And, in granting this unconscionable power, it has exposed many women to unjust and selfish demands from their husbands or other sexual partners. Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or a sovereign."
(Mother Theresa as reported by the Wall Street Journal, 2/25/94, p. A14)

ComPassion of IN 12:02AM August 02, 2009

Thanks to Dr. Hissong for revealing the truth regarding Congressman Ryan. Distorting the truth, such as this article, can literally have a fatal effect on unborn children. I will insert here a newsletter I receieved from Father Corapi regarding the future of our nation if we do not wake up.....
Equality...
We have passed the threshold into one of the most important weeks in American history, and a convergence of three very important celebrations reminds us of it. Monday we celebrate the remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King, who worked so heroically and tirelessly to insure that all men and women might share in the American dream equally. Tuesday we celebrate the inauguration of the first African American president, Barack Obama. That an African American can be so elected is indeed a cause to celebrate. However, thursday we pray and do penance on the anniversary of the most infamous court decision in United States history, Roe v. Wade. All three are related.
Dr. King fought long and hard and suffered many things that all men and women in the United States of America might enjoy those truths that we hold to be self evident: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. He was an American hero for so doing. This week we should rightly celebrate the fact that an African American can be and has been elected President of the United States. This is surely progress, both political and moral.
This all being said, it has to plague the conscience of any thinking person that in this country there is yet the most immoral and deadly form of prejudice and persecution imaginable against the most innocent and vulnerable class of human beings,the unwanted unborn. No matter what advances this country makes, moral, economic, social, or technological, so long as that blight on our national identity remains, all else will ultimately pale into relative insignificance.
God is not a disinterested spectator in the affairs of man. He knows every child by name from all eternity. He loves each one with His infinite love. Gods holy Catholic Church teaches that abortion in a single case is homicide. I assert that if this is the case, and it is, then the 50,000,000 homicides through abortion that have taken place in the United States since Roe v. Wade constitute genocide. God will not favor such a country, regardless of any other progress. Unless this outrage against God and humanity is stopped very soon, the United States of America, and in turn all of the Western world, will realize the death wish that it has manifest for several decades.
Every Catholic, Christian, Jew, and all people of good will and right reason must pray and do penance rigorously and daily from now on for the defeat of this heinous evil we call abortion. If we fail, then Western society as we know it will soon collide with a disaster it will not survive.
May God have mercy on us.
Fr. John Corapi

Stephanie Haymes of FL 8:18AM August 01, 2009

'Because of his support of prevention in 2007-2008 congressional session, Ryan received a "0" rating from National Right to Life Committee."
This is such a distortion that it rises to the level of a lie. NRLC's scoring of zero for Rep. Ryan is based on the following ten votes. NRLC has taken stands on issues related to the sanctity of life: abortion, embryonic stem cell research, and on rationing health care to hasten the end of life, all of which are dealt with in these ten votes. Tim Ryan's voting record contains not a single pro-life vote on these ten bills. At best, he abstained from two votes. Not a single one of these votes have anything to do with reducing the number of abortions by finding the so-called "Third Way". No reasonable person could claim that Tim Ryan is pro-life.
Deny certain federal funds to Planned Parenthood 07/24/2009 Nay
DC funding bill (public funding of elective abortion) 07/16/2009 Yea
Foreign Relations Authorization (International abortions) 06/10/2009 Yea
Deny certain federal funds to Planned Parenthood 07/19/2007 Nay
Smith-Stupak to protect pro-life "Mexico City Policy" 06/21/2007 Nay
"Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007" (S. 5) 06/07/2007 Not Voting
Phony ban on human cloning (DeGette clone-and-kill) 06/06/2007 Not Voting
Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation (H.R. 4) 01/12/2007 Yea
"Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act" anti-cloning amendment 01/11/2007 Nay
"Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act" (H.R. 3): 01/11/2007 Yea

John G. Hissong, Ph.D., M.D. of OH 11:41PM July 31, 2009

A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." His disciples had gone into the town to buy food. The Samaritan woman said to him, "How can you, a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?" (For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.) Jesus answered and said to her, "If you knew the gift of God and who is saying to you, "Give me a drink," you would have asked him and he would have given you living water." The woman said to him, "Sir, you do do not even have a bucket and the cistern is deep; where then can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this cistern and drank from it himself with his children and his flocks?" Jesus answered and said to her, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again; but whoever drinks the water I shall give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." JOHN 4:7-14
I drank from the water of this world and it left me thirsty, so thirsty it made me blind to the evils of this world. Satans biggest lie is that abortion is "a choice". It leads to the destruction of not only one soul, but 2 souls. The baby and the mother. Many women are walking around dead because they have been left terribly wounded by "the choice" this world gave them to "make their life better." We must pray for this nations eyes to be opened, but I'm afraid they will stay tightly shut because of this nations denial of God. Jesus is the way, the TRUTH, and the LIGHT, and without him I'm afraid we will never see the sun again. We will continue to dive into the abyss, just watch the increasing hate and violence on the news. We have to repent and turn to God. If you haven't listend to anything by Father John Corapi, look him up on the intranet. He has an AWESOME testimony of how he went from successful businessman for celebs in Hollywood, to homeless drug addict, to Catholic priest. He is the most intelligent man I've ever heard speak. He has five university degrees, but really brings things down to a level that anyone can understand. Please take the time and listen to him on EWTN channel or look @ him website. His story is amazing.

Stephanie Haymes of FL 9:06PM July 30, 2009