Here’s another thing we’re against: we’re against cruelty to animals. Yes, we think that animals are God’s creatures too. They were created to be our pets and our providers and our companions in life. We were created to be their stewards and overseers, and that we should treat all God’s creatures with compassion and kindness. We like St Francis and the stories of him preaching to the birds and converting the wolf of Gubbio.
However, we also think human beings are more important than animals. While it’s a terrible thing to club a baby seal to death, we think it is actually a more merciful way to die than partial birth abortion in which a human baby about to be born is, instead, delivered feet first, has a scissors rammed into its skull, then has his brains sucked out. We also think its worse for a baby who is born alive after a botched abortion to be smothered or left on a cold steel table in an abortuary to die. We also think it is worse for an unborn baby to be poisoned in the womb, cut up into little pieces and sucked out of his mother’s body by a medical vaccuum cleaner.
“But you only use the most terrible examples!” the abortionists cry “Most abortions take place before six weeks when the result of conception is only a collection of cells.”
But is not every human being ‘a collection of cells’?
Amen!
Another AMEN!Thank you (and Fr. Newman) for speaking THE TRUTH! You are both in our prayers!
Rounding it out with a third AMEN. Loving “…we’re also against” threads. Excellent, excellent. Keeping up the prayers for Father Newman and yourself.
Oh, Father–how can humans mis-use God’s creation so shamefully!?
“…Even now I find my joy in the suffering I endure for you. In my own flesh I fill up what is lacking in the suffering of Christ for the sake of his body the church…”Father, we do hope and pray that God will continue to sustain you and Fr. Newman. The truth will, indeed, set us all free.
As a post abortive woman, I have always been skittish when seeing dead babies (abortion collateral). However, last night I went to our Respect Life meeting and two young men presented us with reason to show dead babies. I realized, like Father Frank Pavone says, “America will not end abortion, until America sees abortion” – and it was precisely because of these two young men that I came to this realization. They showed this picture of the seal being clubbed. Historically, inhumanity to mankind has been documented and it is in the documentation, i.e. photos of the seal being clubbed to death, or lynchings, or napalm aftermath that people have woken up and decided to end their inhumanity. We in the pro-life movement have prayed, we have carried pictures of babies intact in the womb, we have stepped back when the pro-aborts have yelled at us and spit on us. It is now time for us to show the truth about abortion and the truth is not beautiful intact babies, but rather babies that have been torn apart, limb by limb. Thank you Father, for being a voice for those who cannot speak out.
“But Father, abortion is settled law and baby seal clubbing is not. Therefore, we must, despite our ‘very sincere’ opposition, accept abortion, yet oppose the War in Iraq, in which hundreds of thousands of baby seals have been killed by the American military, terrorists, capital punishment, and the lack of public education.”- Catholics for Choice
Not only is clubbing a baby seal to death far less terrible a cruelty than killing an unborn baby, it is also in some cases quite legitimate. The man in the picture could very well be justified in clubbing that seal to death if that man was starving in the wild and the club was the only weapon he had.We ought to be careful. People are going from: “I am personally opposed to abortion, but I think it’s a woman’s private decision” to “I am personally opposed to abortion, but I am also opposed to a lot of other things – it’s like, one big circle of life man, you know, like, unity dude.” In which case, the horrific wrongness of abortion goes out the window, just as it does when people try to bring the Iraq war into the picture. Call it: bringing about a deficit of conscience through addition.
Christopher – I will NEVER accept abortion. It is a bad law, it is immoral and it is against Church teaching. A “Catholic for Choice” is a Catholic who does not know his or her faith.Let me quote a doctor of the Church, St. Catherine of Siena:”We’ve had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.” Indeed – the world is rotten because of abortion and resounding silence surrounding it.Your reasoning Christopher, leaves much to be desired – I shall be praying for you and please, do pray for me.
chimakuni,I did not intend my post to be taken seriously. It was intended to be a caricature of the Catholic pro-choice argument.
Christopher James – I apologize – there was nothing in your post to give me a hint that you were being light hearted.One night, years ago, I was walking to work in downtown San Francisco where I worked in an office building. As I left my apartment building – a man, who was outside of it, decided to spook me. He was in for the scare of his life as I nearly took him out with my irritation.Because I was walking by myself, a single woman, I had to be defensive. I was not passive at his actions – but perhaps my reaction was over the top because the poor man was petrified.However, I think he learned never, ever to mess with a woman walking alone at night. Same with the abortion issue – there is really nothing funny about it – and it is very difficult for me to take it light heartedly.Perhaps I am wrong, but there are lives at stake with abortion.