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Catholic Bishops Weigh in Against Abortion Compromise in Health Reform Bill

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This amendment may give them what they want making even D&C's which are not sinful by canon law not covered. And yet they still aren't happy. They wont be happy until Vatican II is completely reversed and we go back to the 40s.
The sad thing is they had a chance to have everyone treated. And reduce the burden on families thus reducing abortion and treating the sick. They chose not to. They could have had the child born with 2 chambers of a heart covered. The sad thing is 70 years ago the Church would have been in favor of universal health care. How far it has fallen with its blinders on.
Truly I tell you they have received their reward.

neo of MN 12:32PM December 22, 2009

Yes, the Vatican has its agents firmly planted in the GOP. They're successful partly because they conned people of other faiths into being "ecumenical" & supporting Catholic policies of banning abortion & suicide. The Catholic Church has long been the biggest church, with the most buildings, schools & assets. It tells all priests to convert every person in the world. I re-read Goldwater's "Freedom is My Flight Plan." He repeatedly mentions the importance of God. As a "Jew" he ecumenically turned the GOP toward Christianity. His brother Bob represented Christianity. Both parties have too many Ban-Abortionists & there are far too many Prolifers in Congress & courts. Taxes are higher because so many religious poor women refuse to abort because their church says it's a sin. When the dad walks out, the poor unwed mom puts herself & baby on welfare, ADC, food stamps, health care & subsidized housing. If she wants another kid by a deadbeat dad, she goes ahead & adds the next one to the burden on us taxpayers. If we had taxpaid abortion, each one would cost less than $4000 but would save us taxpayers from being stuck with providing $500,000 over l8 years of the welfare kid's life and that of its mom.

auradawn veirs of CA 8:43PM December 21, 2009

You can't have your cake and eat it too, USCCB. You backed this marxist monster in the presidential election because he told you he wanted common ground. How's that hope and change working out for the unborn and elderly. Over HALF of all Catholics voted for this marxist because Catholic leadership told them it was okay. You guys clapped, and smiled, and fawned all over this Marxist at the most prestigious Catholic University in the country, Notre Dame. You, and a great deal of our Catholic leadership have betrayed the Catholic faithful because of your mistakes, and we are not about to trust you anytime soon. Get your idealistic heads out of your buts, and help capitalists and the free market get our country out of this huge and dangerous mess YOU helped get it into. This is COMMUNISM, not freedom - to anybody who is not a progressive: get your heads out of the sand, we're fighting for our very freedom!

Donna of TX 6:11PM December 21, 2009

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JaJa of TX 4:45PM December 21, 2009

were fascists not liberals.

JaJa of TX 4:30PM December 21, 2009

You know that if you molest an alter boy, you can confess (to another child molester?), say a few Hail Marys and be absolved of all your sins. What a great Religion!!!

JaJa of TX 4:25PM December 21, 2009

They hate abortion because it leads to a decrease in the number of young boys. Maybe they should just go back to jailing people for saying the world is round and stay out of the health care debate.

JaJa of TX 4:23PM December 21, 2009

Great. The Morality Police over at Pedophiles-R-Us have weighed in on the health care bill.
Whoop-de-freakin-do.

jimatmadison of WI 2:54PM December 21, 2009

As a Christian Catholic I firmly agree that abortion is an absolutely and morally offensive because it deals with the killing of human life. However, what offends me the most is the fact that the North American Council of Catholic Bishops are acting as surrogates of the Republican Party. They have never been consistent in their opposition to issues that have resulted in the killing of so many innocent people around the world. I wish I had seen the same kind of passion and involvement from them when their Republican friends waged wars and killed innocent people (men, women and children) around the world in the name of "Strategic Interest", or when they funded, trained and armed ruthless dictators who conducted their ruthless murderous campaign in South America and Asia, including people of Eastern Timor where innocent Catholic Christians and other human beings were murdered. I wonder if they are downright ignorant, or have they lost their sense of good moral judgment, or are insidiously deceiving themselves and the world, or afraid of taking on the Republican benefactors. Any form of human life, regardless of whether they are Black, Yellow or Brown are all created by God and deserve the same respect and dignity of Life.

Chris of NE 12:50AM December 21, 2009

If RC politicians can only vote for RC-approved legislation, and if RC-approved legislation is not what the majority of Americans want, then we are morally as well as politically justified in opposing the election of RC political candidates as well as the nomination of RC judicial candidates.
It's that simple!
And dare they call it Catholic-bashing? That's raw & self-serving ad hominem as well as question-begging.
And don't be fooled. The RC Bishops, like so-called "social conservatives", are among the truly RINO group - "republicans" in name only, when it suits them.

Civic Republican of PA 6:22AM December 20, 2009