"We are considering executing more people than any other state in modern history — to line up human beings, every day, for executions for two-plus years. Premeditated, state-sponsored executions ... I cannot sign off on executing hundreds and hundreds of human beings, knowing among them are people who are innocent."
In light of the consistent Democratic Party's support of Abortion on Demand, up to and including minutes before a child is to be born, these words are a puzzlement.
I believe that because a child is formed in the womb, people are still convinced that the right to end that child's life is all wrapped up in what a woman gets to do with her own body.
Science disputes this, of course, as we now know the body that is being dismembered is not her body. However, the proponents of the ability to end a pregnancy being a cornerstone of female freedom firmly believe that because that child is inside a woman's body they have no rights separate from the woman.
Rather than just state that outright, proponents of Abortion on Demand try to use code words - one phrase is that the child cannot survive outside the womb before a certain time and so the right to end its life should be entirely up to the person with the womb. If one suggests that a newborn cannot survive for long outside a mother's womb, that used to give them pause. No longer. Now, in order to be a good Democrat they HAVE to sign on to the idea that it is not a person with any rights up to the moment it is born. The next debate? If the child survives the attempt to kill it, it is up to the mother to determine whether or not that child should receive medical attention. In other words, doctors and nurses - once people who took an oath to do no harm - will get to stand around and watch a child scream itself to death. Great. We have come so far.
I am a pro life, post abortive woman. For many people - usually the very far left and the very far right - I am an anathema. I have the audacity to advocate for the unborn child despite my killing my children and I have the audacity to speak about those choices and why I made them without covering myself with sackcloth and ashes and sitting in the last pew of the Church, apart from the rest of you because I am forever unclean.
I am also one of those people who is cursed with a pragmatic heart. I doubt we will ever close the barn door - the horse that is named abortion has been let lose in the United States and I know people who call themselves 'Super Catholics' who support the agenda of the Democratic Party.
Does that mean we should NOT attempt to shut the door on abortion?
No...not in my opinion.
Being Pro Life for a Catholic means being supportive of life from conception to natural death. It means looking at more than just being born. Being pro life means looking at the issues of health care, education, housing, protection from abuse (sexual and otherwise) as well as being good solid stewards of the environment. It means examining the issue of immigration - legal or otherwise - drug and alcohol addiction and crime. It means making an effort to form a society that allows for the flourishing of families with as little government interference as possible and just the right amount of protection.
Like Governor Newsom, I am against the Death Penalty. I am not against it because I am specifically pro life; rather, I am against it because there have been too many problems with its implementation. Innocent people have died. That is wrong. If we could remove the possibility that innocent men or women are executed for crimes? You might have me back on board with the concept, though I still believe it is possible to protect society without killing its erring members.
Unlike Governor Newsom, I absolutely believe it is possible to distinguish between the execution of someone who has been convicted of a crime and the execution of someone whose only crime is inconvenience, or disability or because they are the child of a criminal. These are the reasons given by those who argue for Abortion - it may adversely impact the mother (inconvenience), the child is damaged (disability) or the product of incest and/or rape (the child of a criminal).
Let's hold the Governor to his own standard. Let's demand of him that he extend the same compassion to children that he has extended to those on death row.
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