And FOCA sounds like a swearword. Thread by wagglebee.
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WASHINGTON, September 23, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Writing to all members of Congress on September 19, Cardinal Justin Rigali warned against enactment of the proposed "Freedom of Choice Act" or "FOCA" (S. 1173, H.R. 1964).
"Despite its deceptive title," he wrote, "FOCA would deprive the American people in all 50 states of the freedom they now have to enact modest restraints and regulations on the abortion industry. FOCA would coerce all Americans into subsidizing and promoting abortion with their tax dollars. And FOCA would counteract any and all sincere efforts by government to reduce abortions in our country.".........
Bishops To Congress: "We Can't Reduce Abortion By Promoting Abortion"
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Thread by wagglebee.
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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Two leading pro-life advocates are defending the use of the term "holocaust" to describe the deaths of 50 million unborn children from abortion over the last 35 years. The term has upset some Jewish leaders because it is typically used in reference to the genocide of Jews during Nazi rule in Germany.
Fr. Frank Pavone, the director of Priests for Life, and Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., issued a joint statement Tuesday about the use of the term.
They say the description of abortion as a holocaust "is not meant to trivialize what happened to our Jewish brothers and sisters."
"Approximately 50 million human beings have been killed in the United States since Roe v. Wade permitted abortion throughout pregnancy," they say. "Children have been torn limb from limb by surgical forceps and killed with suction tubes - not because of anything they did, but just because they existed."
"If abortion isn't a holocaust, we need to rewrite every dictionary," the pair explain.
King and Pavone continue their statement, saying: ....................
Pro-Life Advocates Defend Use of Term "Holocaust" Related to Abortion Deaths
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