Posted on 11/07/2005 4:58:58 PM PST by Numbers Guy
Bedroom v. Courtroom
Instead of fostering an atmosphere in which government was agnostic on abortion, Roe v. Wade fomented one in which it became activist.
Nov. 14, 2005 issue - Samuel Alito has heard hundreds of cases during his long tenure on the court of appeals, but the interested members of the American public are now likely familiar with a single one. It is the dissent in which Judge Alito ruled that it was not an undue burden for a married woman to be obliged to notify her husband that she was having an abortion.
The rights of the accused, the separation of church and state, gun control: so many public-policy matters, and yet it always comes down to this. Within hours of the nomination of Alito to the Supreme Court, his long career had been transmuted into a single issue. And it was hard not to wonder: wouldn't this confirmation process be more illuminating if abortion were taken out of the public realm and put back where it belongs, in the private one?
A mistake has been made in how this deeply divisive political issue is treated. The mistake is that it became a political issue at all. Once, abortion was not discussed in public, although it was certainly whispered about plenty in private. But even when it was illegal, it was widespread. As Cynthia Gorney noted in her definitive history, "Articles of Faith," reliable statistics were hard to come by. One national conference held in 1955 put the number of illegal abortions each year at somewhere between 200,000 and 1.2 million. The list of methods was long and various: quinine and Lysol, pencils and garden hoses, slippery elm and castor oil, and on and on and on.
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The "1.2 million illegal abortions were performed prior to Roe" is absolute balderdash. Absolute un-freaking-believable balderdash.
Another Catholic making her voice heard in the public square. Salt of the earth, they are.
It's funny how the Quindlins of America don't care if the Government controls her wallet, checkbook and paycheck as long as they stay out of her "bedroom." What a ditzy bunch of bimbos.
Please, don't badmouth Catholics as a class. We have our bad apples, but we're mostly a decent lot.
Unless you don't think we're really Christians.
You should be ashamed of yourself. If you've been reading this forum long, you know what Catholics here think of pro-abort Catholics like her. And if you're Google-enabled, you can find out more about the campaign that REAL Catholics have been waging against abortion for decades.
When do you think was the last time Anna Quindlen went to Mass, read the Bible, upheld Christian teachings, or did anything remotely Catholic???
Having Catholic parents does not make one a good Catholic.
What do you have to say about the "salt of the earth" self-described Evangelicals who have 1/3 of the abortions in this country? Hillary Clinton also describes herself as an Evangelical and we must revere the observant Baptists like Bill Clinton and Jesse Jackson. These are no less representative of Evangelicalism than Anna Quindlen is representative of Catholicism.
right. The Catholic Church is the only religious institution that calls for the protection of *all* human life, *all* the time. A large part of my conversion to Catholicism involved the Church's consistency in care for unborn human life. Only the Church speaks continually against stem-cell research, cloning, destruction of IVF babies, and abortifacient birth control, and it is the only consistent, uncompromising voice on behalf of the "exceptions" babies who have disabilities or are conceived in extraordinary circumstance.
Pretty damn stupid thing to say Prof. You're mad at the wrong folks.
And why did I post it? Because I have noticed that the most ardent pro-death people around are those who publicly profess their Catholic faith. As a Catholic active in the pro-life movement, I find it . . . disconcerting. And I wish our bishops would address it.
See you at the March for Life.
For certain, faux-Catholics like Quindlen who dare still claim the name don't make things easier for those of us who do believe in and defend what our Church teaches.
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