The “Last Lion” of Abortion [Senator Edward Kennedy]

Catholic Exchange.com ^ | May 27, 2008 | Fr. Thomas Euteneuer

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The “Last Lion” of Abortion

May 27th, 2008 by Fr. Thomas Euteneuer

Sen. John McCain responded to the news of Sen. Edward Kennedy’s brain tumor saying that Ted Kennedy was the “last lion of the Senate.” Nice words, but hollow. Clearly Kennedy has been a forty-year force to reckon with in the US Senate, but lionizing him for his headstrong political partisanship over four decades is a little like saying that sticking around for a long time and being opinionated qualifies as a “legacy.” That very record of anti-life advocacy is the measure by which his soul will be judged.

While I pray for Sen. Kennedy’s recovery from a brain tumor, I pray more for his recovery from the cancerous metastasis of abortion ideology in his soul. Ironically, in the same years in which abortion has become less and less acceptable to the American public, it has become more and more of an obsession for Sen. Kennedy. Prior to Roe v. Wade, Sen. Kennedy had actually held a pro-life view of the sanctity of life. In a letter to a constituent he said,

“While the deep concern of a woman bearing an unwanted child merits consideration and sympathy, it is my personal feeling that the legalization of abortion on demand is not in accordance with the value which our civilization places on human life. Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even at its earliest stages, has certain rights which must be recognized — the right to be born, the right to love, the right to grow old.” (See http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=31615 )

However, post-Roe, Kennedy’s record of recognizing the “value which our civilization places on life” has been, shall we say, less than stellar. In fact, he has a 0% record of voting in favor of life, and there is not one life-related issue in which his vote reflects a concern for the weakest members of our society, let alone the concern that his supposed Catholic faith places on them. Senator Kennedy

• Is rated 100% by NARAL for his pro-choice voting record.
• Voted NO on banning human cloning.
• Voted NO on banning partial birth abortions.
• Voted NO on notifying parents of minors who get out-of-state abortions.
• Voted NO on criminal penalties for harming an unborn child during the commission of another crime.
• Voted NO on maintaining the ban on military base abortions.
• Voted YES on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines.
• Voted YES on $100 million to “reduce teen pregnancy” by hedonistic sex education programs and contraceptives.
• Is a sponsor of pending radical legislation in the Senate to promote special protections for homosexuals in the workplace. (See http://www.ontheissues.org/Social/Ted_Kennedy_Abortion.htm)

In other words, Kennedy has spent the better part of his long political career promoting the forces that kill and maim and destroy all the things that we hold sacred. What a shocking example of public service for a man who purports to call himself Catholic.

A month to the day after illicitly receiving Communion at the Mass of the Vicar of Christ in our nation’s capital, Sen. Kennedy seems to have been given a real wake up call. When all moral voices go unheeded, the prospect of death tends to focus the mind on the truth. Let us all pray for his conversion from a career of abortion advocacy, for his enlightenment and for a peaceful death, something denied to all aborted babies in this country.

 

Fr. Tom Euteneuer is president of Human Life International.

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**Let us all pray for his conversion from a career of abortion advocacy, for his enlightenment and for a peaceful death, something denied to all aborted babies in this country.**

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[knittnmom]

...saying that sticking around for a long time and being opinionated qualifies as a “legacy.”

If that's the definition of a legacy - I'm a legacy! And I have relatives who qualify as living legends!! :-)

But seriously, it's too bad Kennedy changed his mind after Roe v. Wade - he could really have left a valuable legacy.

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[Judith Anne]

I will join that prayer.

[fetal heart beats by 21st day]

I will join you in that prayer.

[DieHard the Hunter]

Praying for Ted Kennedy is hard work. I am trying, and it isn’t easy. All those dead kids...

[pray4liberty]

We prayed for his salvation this past Sunday in church. I pray he repents before it is too late for him. His mother must cry tears from Heaven.

[Salvation]

**it’s too bad Kennedy changed his mind after Roe v. Wade - he could really have left a valuable legacy.**

Yes, indeed. Think how different that would be.

[Salvation]

**I pray he repents before it is too late for him.**

His repentance is the key.

Dear God, guide this man to your humility and forgiveness. Let him make one last GOOD confession.

[Judith Anne]

No, it isn’t easy. Yet we are assured that Christ’s grace is sufficient for all our sins, and though we may be horrified we pray for his salvation, still.

[philly-d-kidder]

What I never understood with Liberal Catholics is He Thinks the Good Deed of his Family Leading the special Olympics while he personally tries to Promote pre natal genetic testing to encourage abortion? I dpn’t get how you sort That one out in your Mind? Pray for Him...

[Tribune7]

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[Salvation]

Yes, he does need prayers.

Many Catholics can not figure out how he went CINO either.

[353FMG]

Kennedy could redeem himself by publicly renouncing his stand on abortion and all other liberal opinions he holds. He could also publicly state that he regrets the affair that caused Mary Jo Kopeckny’s death. That would really shake up the MSM and all liberals. But then again, the culture of death may be so deeply engrained in his charater that he is convinced of his good intentions.

[DieHard the Hunter]

Amen.

[Salvation]

**Kennedy could redeem himself by publicly renouncing ......**

Do you really think that would happen?

Maybe on a death bed Confession to a priest. Then sealed with the Seal of Confession and no one would ever know.

[Judith Anne]

Even if those things happen, I doubt the press will report them, and may even suppress them, or blame his brain tumor for making him “crazy.”

Still, we pray.

[ikka]

Apparently the Senate Democrats are pro-life -— when it comes to Senator Kennedy!