“Beloved, we love God because He first loved us. If anyone says, ‘I love God,’ but hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love a brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. This is the commandment we have from Him: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.”The propensity to thwart justice for the unborn by saying it's divisive to oppose abortion and better to find ways to "reduce it" is as phony as a three dollar bill.
We of the Catholic faith certainly know that love of God is central to our tenets, this is the appealing part. It is hard to imagine a Catholic saying, “I am a Catholic in good standing but I do not love God.” But the inspired scriptures tell us that whoever does not love his brother or neighbor does not and, indeed, cannot love God. This is the challenging part. The people of Jesus’ day understood this and it was this understanding that prompted them to ask, “And who is my neighbor?” For all of us, and especially for Catholic legislators in every strata of government, it is necessary to declare, in conformity with the Natural Law and the teaching of the Catholic Church that, the pre-born child is our brother, our sister, our neighbor!
Killing another human being is a humanitarian issue that must be stopped all together.
That's why we shut down Auschwitz instead of finding ways to limit the people sent there.
Political cronies using the sound byte that any kind of subsidy/support programs that we can provide to a woman facing an unplanned pregnancy at an inconvenient time in her life would "reduce" abortion is nonsense.
It takes 70 thousand dollars a year to house, clothe, feed and take care of a child.
There are only two milestones that will adequately reduce abortion and one of them is already in place.
1. Making killing an unborn child illegal.
2. Adoption Agencies.
Another silly excuse for preventing the nation from outlawing killing unborn is that women will do it under the radar and place their own lives in danger.
The most selfish breed of women may indeed refuse to see that abortion is killing, and killing is illegal.
People are going to rape other people even thought it is illegal, but as a nation we do not keep it legal and find ways to reduce it. As a nation, we do not tolerate rape.
Plenty of people still operate a Klu Klux Klan under the radar too, but as a nation - we do not tolerate it.
What we uphold as law as a nation implies that it is moral and good.
I can't think of another law that wouldn't fit the description that as a nation we implied that the particular law is just, moral and good.
Here's something you'll never see:
The peace and justice crowd saying efforts to outlaw the death penalty are divisive and we should find ways to "reduce it".
You'll never hear anyone saying people are going to abuse children if we outlaw it, so let's legalize it and limit our efforts into finding ways to reduce it.
There is no love involved for our brothers and sisters if we tolerate child abuse and killing them is the worst form of evil to a child imaginable.
It's a lie to tolerate legal killing and claim that you are obeying the Commandment to love God and love your brother as you love yourself.
The whole thing is a lie, not to mention craven.
It may sound a little strong to state that legislators “hate” the pre-born child but hate is an absence of love and love means to wish another well. There is nothing about abortion that wishes the pre-born child well. The preservation of abortion “rights” is already an absence of love for the pre-born child but the passage of FOCA could be construed as nothing less than active and positive disregard, even hatred, for these our brothers and sisters. To paraphrase St. John, “If anyone says, ‘I love God,’ but votes for FOCA, thus showing a disregard for his pre-born brother or sister, he is a liar.” Lots of things can be rationalized in government but I do not see any way in which any Catholic could rationalize or justify an affirmative vote for FOCA.
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