News Flash: Lincoln Eradicated Slavery. National Policies to "Reduce it" While Publicly Funding it = Horsefeathers

Cardinal Rigali Pins the Tail on the Obama Rope a Dope.

"First, he said, "public funding of abortion is rejected by the American people, as numerous surveys of public opinion have shown." He also noted that Catholics recently sent "tens of millions of postcards to their elected representatives in Congress, opposing any weakening or reversal of current appropriations riders on abortion."

"Second, no lawmaker or Administration can support such a policy change and still claim to support 'reducing abortions.' The evidence is overwhelming, and universally recognized by groups on all sides of the abortion issue, that the availability of public funds for abortion greatly increases abortions."

The premise that you'd want to reduce abortions is all the evidence you need that abortions are human rights violations.

Somebody kills somebody else in an abortion.

The victim whose body lieth in the trash can is not the woman who claims she has sovereignty over her body.

Lincoln eradicated slavery. We didn't, at the urgency of his leadership, find ways to reduce it while putting policies into place that promoted it and supported it.

"Third, this action takes place as Congress is working to win broad support for a much-needed major reform of our health care system," Cardinal Rigali noted. "This is the worst of all possible times to be injecting the divisive issue of public abortion funding into the debate on government health policy."

Obama's abortion reduction "Deadly Spin"

Gail Besse has an excellent article in the National Catholic Register describing the tenets of Obama's "abortion reduction" scam.

I've been critical of Wendy Wright's involvement in Obama's "abortion reduction" malarkey but it did give her a front row seat to report on the Fata Morgana.

"The qualifiers 'unintended and need' come straight from the liberal abortion handbook," said Wright. "The language is intentionally vague. A pregnancy may be unintended but not unwelcome."

"People hear the phrase 'reduce abortion' and they think 'reduce the number' of abortions. The administration is not saying that," she explained. "Number is quantifiable, but need is subjective. You can't prove that 'need' is reduced. Someone may feel a 'need' for abortion after going to Planned Parenthood, but they won't after going to a crisis-pregnancy center."

The only speakers on the conference call were Obama appointees, Wright said. She and Kristen Day, executive director of Democrats for Life of America, listened in "silent only" mode.

According to a U.S. News report, White House speakers were Joshua DuBois, director of the Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships; Melody Barnes, Domestic Policy Council director; and Tina Tchen, director of the new White House Council on Women and Girls.

Barnes is a former director of Planned Parenthood and former board member of Emily's List, a group that promotes pro-abortion candidates. Tchen is a former vice president of the National Organization for Women...

Administration officials de--clined repeated attempts by the Register to identify pro-life participants on the conference call or explain who would be contacted for future meetings.

I'm not a fan of sitting on boards that stonewall authentic activism in the defense of life. You don't involve yourself with 'reduce racism' efforts with the Klu Klux Klan. You don't enjoin in efforts with Nazi sympathizers to 'reduce anti-semitism'.

Let us not be silly.