36 years of shame
So, not surprisingly, President Obama is set to undo the Mexico City Policy, which has prohibited US funding to organizations that promote or provide abortions overseas. So now our tax dollars will be used to offer, or in some cases force, abortions in other countries. Just what we need – to spread our Culture of Death around the world.
Clinton had undone the policy first put in place by Reagan, then W. reinstated it. And this back and forth always takes place on the Jan. 22 anniversary of Roe v. Wade. But this seems like such a slap in the face to the millions of pro-life supporters, especially those who will march today. For someone who says he wants to reach out to those who disagree with him and find common ground… Well, he couldn’t have waited until next week to do this? We know the pro-abortion forces won in Novmeber, and we know they’re going to make policy changes like this. And now we know for sure that there really is no desire to find common ground. It’s just going to be about forcing a pro-abortion agenda on everyone. It doesn’t bode well. At all.
I say again what I did after the election – Lord, have mercy on our souls. Shame on all those who voted against their conscience on the very existence of life because they wanted to vote for a black man, either because race meant more to them than millions of innocents slaughtered or they were so excited about voting for a black man that they chose to remain ignorant of the virulant pro-abortion platform of the Democrat Party and this president. Shame on our bishops for not speaking more forcefully about this, particularly our own. He put out a reasonably strong statement about the preeminence of the life issue, but he waited until right before the election to put it out – really too late given all the early voting here. And then he rushed to congratulate Obama on his historic election. That’s all well and good, but perhaps he could have added a statement like, “From one black man to another, I need to point out to you that this abortion position you support so fiercely is killing *our* people.” It really is a genocide in the black community, and we need to be able to say that.
Shame on all of us for electing a man who strongly supports such evil. Shame on all of us for abiding this evil in our country for so long.