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“Help me out here, Madam Speaker” ( “I don't think anybody can tell you when life begins” )
California Catholic Daily ^ | August 25, 2008 | staff

Posted on 08/25/2008 7:50:09 AM PDT by kellynla

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To: kellynla

Just wondering when Judgement Day comes when all who were ardent supporters of abortion will get to see all the millions of souls who were aborted as if evidence in a courtroom. The Supreme Court of Heaven will not be straddled with a Roe v. Wade albatross either.


41 posted on 08/25/2008 8:09:44 AM PDT by tflabo (.)
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To: Noumenon

To the left, human beings are the property of the State and are defined and permitted to live only in the way that is useful to what the State perceives as its interests.


42 posted on 08/25/2008 8:09:53 AM PDT by livius
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To: NTHockey
I am really tired of this “excommunicated herself” crap.

You're right, that's a chicksht position. The leaders of the Catholic Church need to step up and actually kick these people out publicly.

43 posted on 08/25/2008 8:10:55 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: edcoil
“that Church teaching on when human life begins is unclear”

The Catholic church is absolutely clear on this issue, Nancy should leave the church if she feels differently.
44 posted on 08/25/2008 8:11:25 AM PDT by jaydubya2
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To: kellynla

It depends on your definition of ardent.


45 posted on 08/25/2008 8:11:38 AM PDT by ThomasThomas (Orationem pulchram non habens, scribo ista linea in lingua Latina.***)
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To: Heartland Mom

“I would love to know how “Catholic” pro-choice politicians who speak and vote pro-abortion are not automatically excommunicated.”

They ARE automatically excommunicated. The Pope has recently affirmed this. It is nothing new. The mainstream media has simply never given this the attention it deserves and continues to cloak these pro-abortion politicians in the *Catholic* mantle.


46 posted on 08/25/2008 8:12:07 AM PDT by SumProVita ("Cogito ergo sum pro vita." .....updated Descartes)
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To: kellynla

“Besides, said Pelosi, even if life does begin at conception, that would not change her pro-abortion views.”

I remember seeing a priest on the old Cross Talk program who was being harranged by liberal Catholic women about how the church didn’t represent women on abortion, priesthood, etc. He said if you disagree with the Church on abortion, you’re not a Catholic, try the Espiscopalians.

Pelosi is a Catholic in name only and probably only for political reasons I’d bet. I hope she spends eternity in the lowest ring of hell bobbing in baby guts.


47 posted on 08/25/2008 8:13:07 AM PDT by y6162 (uot)
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To: jaydubya2
“that Church teaching on when human life begins is unclear”

What this means is that it is unclear to her. In the typical liberal fashion, lack of clarity always is out there in the world, never in the liberal's own head, even if it's projected onto the world around him.
48 posted on 08/25/2008 8:14:35 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: kellynla
And so I don't think anybody can tell you when life begins, human life begins.

Medical science can (conception).

49 posted on 08/25/2008 8:16:20 AM PDT by chimera
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To: kellynla
Monica Crowley put it in simple terms yesterday:

"Anyone who has ever bought a condom knows when life begins."

50 posted on 08/25/2008 8:16:37 AM PDT by FlyVet
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To: Hildy

Perhaps Pelosi is unclear about when life begins because either she herself was born permanently brain-dead or she has her head so far up her @ss that she can’t see things clearly...or more likely both!


51 posted on 08/25/2008 8:17:06 AM PDT by Stayfree (***************************************IF IT IS LEFT, IT CAN'T BE RIGHT!!)
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To: henkster

I tell my lib friends that the right to be born trumps the right to choose life. The mother has already had the right to live, her child hasn’t.


52 posted on 08/25/2008 8:17:36 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (est deus in nobis)
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To: Amos the Prophet
"The Roman Catholic church, of which she is an ardent member, is bitterly opposed to contraception (and abortion)and has been so for more than 50 yrs."

More like almost 2000 years. The Church's opposition to infanticide, abortion, and contraception goes back to "day one" of the Church. There has been some question on when a human life actually started, as there was zip scientific knowledge of the process of conception and gestation (lots of practical knowledge, of course), but the Church now knows that the individual human life begins with the union of egg cell and sperm cell, and has so taught since that knowledge was available.

53 posted on 08/25/2008 8:18:29 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog
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To: kellynla

The ‘problem’ is that life began before conception.


54 posted on 08/25/2008 8:18:45 AM PDT by LeGrande
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To: kellynla
Brokaw interrupted, “The Catholic Church at the moment feels very strongly that it begins at the point of conception.”
55 posted on 08/25/2008 8:20:11 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: All

This is one area that Catholics and Protestants should be able to agree on.

Our disdain for Abortion. No Christians or people of faith who are ardently against abortion should let these liar politicians - and that is exactly what they are - liars, get away with their lies about abortion.

We Catholics should take it upon ourselves to write our local newspapers and call Speaker Pelosi and Obama on their lies about Life and Abortion. She outright falsified the Truth of God and politicians need to be held to account for their barbaric policies on the unborn babies - and the lies they weave to justify it.

Certainly here is something that despite our doctrinal differences, Catholics and Protestants can unite on.


56 posted on 08/25/2008 8:20:29 AM PDT by rbmillerjr (send concerns to Russian Trade Ministry rustrade@verizon.net Hit Russia in wallet....)
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To: edcoil

Her statement is very not true. The Church’s teaching is very clear. Life is precious from the moment of conception until natural death and at every point in between.

Church teaching is also very clear on the matter that there are certain times when those precious lifes may be taken (death penalty and war for example).


57 posted on 08/25/2008 8:21:29 AM PDT by CTK YKC
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To: rbmillerjr

Abortion and homosexuality are the reason that the “liberal tradition” churches exist.

Both destroy the family unit, and consequently, our society.


58 posted on 08/25/2008 8:22:28 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: aruanan

“Abortion
Here, too, Professor Maguire argues that because some Catholic theologians do not consider abortion to be always wrong there is no unitary Catholic position on abortion. In fact, he argues that the dominant current of Catholic tradition supports early abortion because some eminent theologians of the past, such as St. Thomas Aquinas, did not believe that a fetus becomes a human person until several weeks after conception. Such judgments about the status of the fetus were based on the relatively primitive biology of the ancient and medieval periods. More importantly, these theologians never drew the conclusion that abortion was morally justified. Since modern biology provides clear evidence of the humanness of the embryo from the moment of conception, today there can be no reason that can justify the taking of innocent human life that occurs in abortion. Contrary to what Professor Maguire asserts, the Catholic tradition has never supported abortion. The Second Vatican Council clearly stated that “[l]ife must be protected with the utmost care from the moment of conception: abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes.”[18] Furthermore, the intrinsic immorality of abortion has been repeatedly and forcefully emphasized by the popes, particularly by Pope John Paul II.[19]”
http://catholicposition.blogspot.com/2008/08/catholic-teaching-on-abortion-us.html


59 posted on 08/25/2008 8:23:26 AM PDT by tflabo (.)
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To: CTK YKC

Plain scripture uninterpreted by the Church is clear on those issues as well, so Protestants should have the same viewpoint.


60 posted on 08/25/2008 8:23:58 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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