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Let Lauren Live!
ChristtheKingMaine ^ | May 7, 2008 | Judie Brown

Posted on 05/08/2008 3:14:03 AM PDT by 8mmMauser

LAUREN RICHARDSON - YOU CAN HELP!
By Judie Brown

It has been a source of ongoing sadness to read of the difficulties Lauren Richardson’s father has had over the course of the past several months. For those of you who are not familiar with her case, Lauren overdosed on heroin on August 28, 2006. She suffered oxygen deprivation and, as a result of the overdose, is now in a coma and unable to speak out for herself. At the time of the overdose, Lauren was expecting a baby. Her parents honored what they knew would have been her wish and did all they could to keep her healthy and comfortable until the child was born. Today, though Lauren may not be aware of it, she is the mother of Ember Grace, who was born in February 2007.

Since the birth of her daughter, Lauren remains unable to speak of her concerns, but she has a loving father who is doing all he can to protect her from suffering the same fate as Terri Schiavo. However, Lauren’s mother, who has been named her legal guardian, is sadly not of the same opinion and is working with attorneys to pressure the courts to permit Lauren’s starvation.

Lauren’s father has kept hope alive, even at times when there appeared to be no hope in human terms. Lauren’s father is a man of hope in Christ and is dedicated to spending every breath he has on defending Lauren, regardless of what it might cost him in physical exhaustion and worldly goods. The most recent update for those concerned about Lauren tells us the following:

We struggle at times as we seek to share with the public the details of what is happening with Lauren because of the disagreement we have with Lauren’s mother. We cannot understand her reasoning in refusing a path of hope, healing and restoration for Lauren and insisting on causing her death by withholding food and water from her. The issue in Lauren’s case is the eternal truth that all people, no matter what their medical condition, bear the image of God and deserve basic care and an opportunity to be restored to health.

Bobby Schindler, Terri Schiavo’s brother, has written about Lauren in an editorial earlier this year, "False Compassion," and is working closely with Lauren’s father in order to provide expertise that he is uniquely qualified to share during a trying time like this.

There are many links on the Life for Lauren web site that will assist you in tracking this case and learning who is supporting Lauren’s ongoing care and who is opposing it. More importantly, there is something you can do to express your concerns.

ACTION NEEDED NOW

The governor of Delaware, Ruth Ann Minner, is being asked by pro-life Americans across this nation to intervene in this case in order to save Lauren from what many fear is an imminent court order dictating that Lauren be starved and dehydrated to death. I am asking you to be one of those who communicates your passionate belief that Lauren’s life is sacred and deserves to be protected from those who would order her death. The governor’s e-mail address is governor.minner@state.de.us.

Further, it would mean a great deal to Lauren’s father, Randy, if you sent him a copy of your e-mail to Governor Ruth Ann Minner. Randy’s e-mail address is Lifeforlauren@aol.com

During a recent visit to Anchorage, Alaska where Bobby Schindler was invited to speak, he told a reporter from The Catholic Anchor, "Once we accept that killing is an acceptable answer to human suffering, we lose any type of parameters. Euthanasia is a form of abandonment. It is not compassion."

Truer words were never spoken. As I frequently tell people who argue that we pro-lifers are being heartless and cruel for fighting to defend the rights of a "hopeless case," "God is the author of every human being’s life, and He has never given permission to a single one of us to arbitrarily rob another human being of life for any reason including disability or illness."

As Flannery O’Connor once wrote on the subject of false compassion, "In the absence of faith, we govern by tenderness. And tenderness leads to the gas chamber."

Lauren Richardson is not terminal – she is severely disabled. Lauren Richardson should not be murdered.

Judie Brown is president of American Life League and a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: charliecrist; googling; johnmccain; justsayno2johnmccain; lauren; moralabsolutes; prolife; richardson; schiavo; terridailies; vp
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To: All; wagglebee
Judging a tree by its fruits...

Thread by wagglebee.

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LANCASTER, UK, August 20, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Drug abuse, gun crime, pornography, alcoholism, suicide, euthanasia, and 2.2 million deaths of unborn children by "scientific experimentation" are the results of Britain's 1967 Abortion Act, that allows virtually unlimited abortion up to 24 weeks gestation, says the Catholic bishop of Lancaster.

In a 92-page document obtained by LifeSiteNews.com that is due to be released next week, Bishop Patrick O'Donohue writes, "I am convinced another cause of the wide-spread violence lies in the Abortion Act of 1967.".....

Promote Culture of Life and Catholic Teaching to Combat Crime & Cultural Degradation: UK Bishop

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1,201 posted on 08/21/2008 4:04:42 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: 8mmMauser

I can see how that would be easy to do with everyone kneeling around the altar. However, it is far more difficult now when people walk up to the priest and even more difficult with laymen involved.


1,202 posted on 08/21/2008 5:09:14 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: 8mmMauser
REMINDER: If Barack Obama picks TIM KAINE, MICHAEL SCHIAVO picked Tim Kaine first.

Kaine is a EUTHANAZI and even democrats for Terri can't stand euthanazi's but by now, they may have forgotten MIKEY SCHIAVO endorsed TK for governor. Virginia's not for lovers any more.

1,203 posted on 08/21/2008 8:18:55 AM PDT by floriduh voter ( Hey, hey, Fay, don't come back this way.)
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To: 8mmMauser

Is the GOP taking a pro-choice stand, having Rudy and the Democrat Lieberman give major speeches?


1,204 posted on 08/21/2008 3:17:13 PM PDT by Dante3
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To: floriduh voter

It would be the mark of Kaine. Virginia also thought Jim Webb, my old nemesis, was ok. I cringe when I see him in that mix.


1,205 posted on 08/22/2008 3:10:24 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: Dante3

It is unnerving. The thought of Rudy Ridge crossed my mind as a monster betrayal.


1,206 posted on 08/22/2008 3:12:15 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: Ohioan from Florida; Goodgirlinred; Miss Behave; cyn; AlwaysFree; amdgmary; angelwings49; ...
For such reason just as starters, I slam Obamunist!

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Planned Parenthood and NARAL hail Barack Obama as "100 percent" pro-choice. But perhaps they should create a special new category for pols who go above and beyond the call of duty to vote for abortion rights even when they are not in legislative play.

Barack Obama would deserve a place of honor amongst these 110 percent pro-choicers, as he sees abortion rights threatened almost everywhere, including in anti-infanticide bills.

It has now been established that his opposition to the Born Alive Infants Protection Act rested on an excess of pro-choice zeal, as evident in the fact that 100 percent pro-choicers such as Hillary Clinton voted for the Senate bill. That's the sort of enthusiasm which should earn Obama the Margaret Sanger Award.

Obama feared that the legislation could cause Roe v. Wade to unravel, though no such threat existed, since the legislation didn't pertain to unborn children.

But no matter: his pro-choice heart was in the right place. Abortion rights can never be safe enough.

~Snip~

Remember that statesman-like moment in one of the Democratic primary debates? Asked about his biggest mistake in the Senate, he grandly abased himself by saying: "When I first arrived in the Senate that first year, we had a situation surrounding Terri Schiavo. And I remember how we adjourned with a unanimous agreement that eventually allowed Congress to interject itself into that decision making process of the families.

"It wasn't something I was comfortable with, but it was not something that I stood on the floor and stopped. And I think that was a mistake..."

The Democrats are the party of socialized medicine -- a system which assumes the right of the state to meddle in the health care decisions of families -- but they would never dream of "interjecting themselves" into such minor health care matters as abortion and euthanasia.

Obama's Schiavo apology is worth recalling in light of this current controversy. Even if one were to put the most generous possible construction on his maneuverings around the Born Alive Infants Protection Act -- he now claims he would have supported it and favors health care for babies that survive abortion -- his support for euthanasia establishes that he accepts the principle of denying care to those outside the womb.

What does it matter if the human is nine months old or 90 years old? If there are "good" reasons to deny care to the disabled or elderly, similarly good reasons can be concocted to deny care to babies that survive abortion.


EXTENDING THE LOGIC of abortion and euthanasia to infanticide is not very hard, and explains why the Democrats drag their feet on bills banning it except when immediate political reasons necessitate their support...............................

Obama: 110% Pro-Choice

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1,207 posted on 08/22/2008 3:28:50 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: All; Renfield; narses
Something smells like BO. Yeah, Barry Hussein Muhammad or whatever your current name is, what about it?

Thread by Renfield with thanks to narses for the ping.

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Add in the fact that former Weatherman and admitted terrorist William Ayers (whom Obama described in the Philadelphia debate as merely a "neighbor") was head of the operating arm of the CAC, working with Obama on distributing scores of millions of dollars to grantees in the wards of the city, and you have a topic that the Obama campaign wishes to avoid at all costs...........

Obama's Lost Annenberg Years Coming to Light

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1,208 posted on 08/22/2008 3:39:23 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: All; wagglebee
He thinks we are the ones who are crazy and it is Barry hussein. He will fight to for the death...

Thread by wagglebee.

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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Barack Obama and his campaign have repeated the same excuse as to why he opposed a bill in the Illinois legislature that would have stopped infanticide. Obama is on record opposing a measure to give medical care to prematurely born babies who survive botched abortions.

One columnist says Obama's own words during the debate on the bill contradict his current claims that he opposed it because it could have contradicted Roe v. Wade.

Obama originally opposed the Born Alive Infants Protection Act in 2001 with concerns that it would impact the Roe decision and Illinois state law concerning when abortions were legal.

But, by the time the bill came up for debate again in 2002, those concerns had been rectified yet Obama continued to oppose the common sense bill...........

Barack Obama's Own Words Contradict Claims on Opposing Anti-Infanticide Bill

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1,209 posted on 08/22/2008 3:45:46 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: All; wagglebee; Lesforlife; floriduh voter; amdgmary; BykrBayb; Sun; Dante3
This great woman is an ally of ours in our fight to keep Lauren alive.

Thread by wagglebee.

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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- An African-American pro-life leader has a message for Barack Obama that plays off on the informal theme that has become a chant at his rallies: No we can't. For Day Gardner, that means the black community can't continue supporting abortion and how it racially targets black Americans.

Gardner has talked before about how abortion businesses unfairly target minority communities and how black women have abortions at much higher rates than white women or Hispanics.

But Gardner says the last straw for her is the recent controversy surrounding Obama's votes in the Illinois legislature against bills that would have protected babies who survive botched abortions.

"Barack Obama is an extremist who, in supporting what amounts to infanticide, would like to see all of us stand idle--twiddling our thumbs as unplanned children, who are born alive, die this terrible death," she told LifeNews.com Thursday.

"We must realize this is definitely part of Mr. Obama's plan for America," Gardner explains. "But it is definitely not mine. In my America, all voices shout, 'No We Can't!' and 'No We Won't!'"

Gardner is also troubled by Obama's refusal to admit that he voted against the Born Alive Infants Protection Act even after his own legislative committee adopted an amendment he now says would have made it possible for him to vote for the bill..................

African American Pro-Life Leader Tells Barack Obama: No We Can't OK Abortion

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1,210 posted on 08/22/2008 3:52:30 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: All; fightinJAG; Salvation
Meanwhile, back at the White House...

Thread by FightinJAG, with thanks to Salvation for the ping.

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The Bush administration proposed new rules today that critics say would make it more difficult for women to obtain abortions, and for men and women to obtain contraceptives.

After more than a month of internal -- and eventually public -- debate, the administration unveiled regulations that, if enacted, would provide stronger protections for doctors and other healthcare providers to refuse to perform medical procedures -- or, possibly, sell contraceptives -- if such steps violate their religious beliefs..................

Bush administration unveils new abortion regulation

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1,211 posted on 08/22/2008 3:57:34 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: All; vietvet67; narses
Mor on Annenberg flop of the achievement challenged...

You can always trust an obamunist...to be an obamunist.

Thread by vietvet67 with thanks to narses for the ping.

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It does not take much for grantees who receive funds from the Obama-Ayers led Anneberg Chicago effort to sign its praises. When an outside group audits the performance and reveals scores of millions of dollars were all but wasted, I think that should have some bearing on our evaluation of Obama as a leader of change efforts.

No wonder the Obama campaign is engaging in an extraordinary level of secrecy regarding Obama's track record as State Senator (his written records unavailable), lawyer (no list of his clients available) and leader of the failed effort to reform public schooling in Chicago..........

More on the Annenberg Challenge

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1,212 posted on 08/22/2008 4:05:02 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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As the Obamunist is just biden his time...

Ken Conner tried to help Terri while on Jeb Bush's staff.

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LifeNews.com Note: Ken Connor is a pro-life attorney who was intimately involved in the fight to save Terri Schiavo and is the former president of the Family Research Council. He is now the chairman of the Center for a Just Society.

"At what point does a baby get human rights, in your view?" Most people have a ready answer to this question. A "pro-life" supporter will generally point to conception, while a "pro-choice" proponent will often point to birth.

There are a variety of opinions, but the average person does have an opinion. Not Barack Obama. He wouldn't answer this most basic question about human rights.

Senator Obama's response to Reverend Rick Warren's question during the Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency was, "Well, I think that whether you're looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade."

He went on to state that he is "pro-choice", but that both sides should "find common ground" by seeking to "reduce the number of abortions." Still he refused to answer the question of what constitutes a human being worthy of rights and protections.

You would think a man who studied at Harvard and Columbia and who is running for the office of President of the United States would have taken the time to figure out his position on this controversial question.........

When Does a Baby Get Human Rights? Barack Obama's Abortion Confusion

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1,213 posted on 08/23/2008 3:20:41 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: All
More on Janet Rivera...

I may only excerpt from the Fresno Bee.

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Janet Rivera's entire family had to fight a government that was determined to remove basic medical care from a disabled woman.

Rivera was left to die a painful death by starvation and dehydration a few weeks ago when Fresno County decided to stop giving her food and water. But when she began to improve, public outcry helped Rivera finally get her feeding tube back after 12 days without it.

It's one thing to allow a family member to die of natural causes from an illness. It's another thing to remove basic care like food and water from a disabled person.....

Don't take away basic care from the disabled

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1,214 posted on 08/23/2008 3:25:24 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: All
Haleigh Poutre, minor update...

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SPRINGFIELD - A Hampden Superior Court judge Friday denied a defense lawyer's request to move the trial of Jason D. Strickland out of this county because of the intense publicity regarding his case.

Strickland, formerly of Westfield, faces a series of assault and battery charges in connection with injuries sustained by his stepdaughter Haleigh Poutre, 14. After Haleigh was brought to Noble Hospital Sept. 11, 2005, in Westfield with a severe head injury, her adoptive mother and stepfather were charged with abuse.

Judge Judd J. Carhart said that in the age of the Internet, publicity spreads to a wider area. He also said that most of the publicity seemed to have been "a long time ago."...

Trial move request denied

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1,215 posted on 08/23/2008 3:29:45 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: All; wagglebee
The underlying intent of Malthus: Something noble, or simply a ruse to kill and destroy as many souls as possible? I see an ugly lust for death masked by that noble claim.

Thread by wagglebee.

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Nothing makes a Malthusian's heart beat faster than a good famine and so these are feast days for good Malthusian hearts. Parts of the world are now awash in water shortages and in food riots.

Thomas Malthus was the 18th century preacher/mathematician who first postulated that overpopulation would inevitably lead to widespread starvation, galloping disease, war and other grisly large-scale die-offs.

Using Malthusian arguments the eugenicists and the population controllers waged a 20th century campaign to lower fertility rates and were successful beyond their wildest dreams. So successful were they that the UN predicts that every country in the world, with the exception of a tiny few in sub-Sahara Africa, will reach below replacement fertility by 2025.....

Parson Malthus Makes a Comeback as Overpopulation Zealots Destroy World

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1,216 posted on 08/23/2008 3:38:10 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: All; wagglebee
Some libs and lefties are pro-choice simply because it is in their instruction manual. But, no, not the Obamunist! He wants 'em dead. Way beyond the requisite acceptance of baby killing as a good thing to do, he shows a rare lust shared only by the greats in the death industry. Thread by wagglebee:

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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- How strongly does Barack Obama believe in unlimited abortions? Strongly enough that the only article he wrote for the Harvard Law Review while he was a law school student talked about how fervently believed in legalized abortion. Obama's name wasn't attached to any other legal scholarship during the time.

In an article unearthed by the Politico web site, Obama, as the president of the Harvard Law Review, wrote an unsigned article touting abortion.

The web site says the article comes in at six pages and is contained in the third volume of the 1990 Harvard Law Review..............

Barack Obama's Sole Article in Harvard Law Review Promotes Abortion

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1,217 posted on 08/23/2008 3:55:35 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: All
More and more object to B.O. in Pew.

Thread by wagglebee.

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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- While the media and political skeptics say Americans are no longer interested in the issue of abortion, a new survey from the Pew Forum shows otherwise. It finds more than one-third of Americans say abortion is important to their presidential vote, with 39 percent saying so.

The number is down from the figure Pew found in 2004, when 47 percent of Americans said abortion played a role in determining their presidential vote.

The Pew survey also found that "Voters who are strongly opposed to abortion are much more likely than other voters to say that these are very important voting issues."

That confirms other polls showing that pro-life voters have a much higher voting intensity than voters who support abortions. That intensity has been responsible for giving pro-life candidates like John McCain an edge over pro-abortion candidates like Barack Obama.....

Survey: 39 Percent of Americans Say Abortion Important to Presidential Vote

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1,218 posted on 08/23/2008 4:02:26 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: All; wagglebee
PP is at it again, this time with the "A" word...

Thread by wagglebee.

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WASHINGTON, DC, August 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Today, Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region announced that it has launched the "'A' Word Campaign" and its new Web site for teens, http://www.theawordohio.com. The campaign is set to hit the Cincinnati area just in time to coincide with the nation's largest abortion giant's push to open a new killing center just down the street from Western Hills High School, which has a high percentage of minority students.

Planned Parenthood's 'A' Word Campaign supposedly stands for "abstinence, access, affordability and advocacy." In one of its web sites (http://www.takecaredownthere.com), Planned Parenthood implies that abstinence includes deviant sexual practices. According to Planned Parenthood's statement, released Aug. 21, the campaign is meant to foster a perception that Planned Parenthood is about more than just abortion.........

Planned Parenthood's 'A' Word Campaign Targets Cincinnati Teenagers

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1,219 posted on 08/24/2008 3:22:59 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: All; wagglebee
Biden and the Obamunist, a team so tragically funny, I would laugh if it were not so serious...

Thread by wagglebee.

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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A pro-life Catholic group says it will be easier for Catholic voters to reject Barack Obama as president now that he has strong abortion advocate Joe Biden on board. Although some pundits say Biden is an Irish Catholic who will help Obama in states like Pennsylvania, Brian Burch says he will turn off voters.

Burch, the head of the pro-life organization Fidelis, tells LifeNews.com that Biden's pro-abortion views, like Obama's, pose a major challenge for American Catholics.

Fidelis warned late last month that a pro-abortion Catholic choice as a vice presidential candidate would offend many Catholics who have struggled with the scandal of prominent pro-abortion Catholic politicians like Senator Biden.

“Barack Obama has re-opened a wound among American Catholics by picking a pro-abortion Catholic politician," Burch said...........

Joe Biden Makes It Easier for Catholics to Oppose Pro-Abortion Barack Obama

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1,220 posted on 08/24/2008 3:28:00 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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