How glibly they lie. Now that they got their guy elected, the most radical pro-abort in history, those who claimed to be pro-lifers for Obama are calling to end efforts to ban abortion legally. How convenient that would be for the new abortion president as he puts his radical agenda in place.
Douglas Kmiec, a professor at Pepperdine, claimed in an interview with the
Washington Post today that the strategies of the past have failed. He and other members of the religious left mentioned in the article, (Sojourners; Catholics United; Richard Cizik, of the National Association of Evangelicals; Rev. Thomas Reese of Georgetown University's Woodstock Theological Center and former editor of the liberal Catholic magazine
America, and Nicholas Cafardi, former dean of the Duquesne University School of Law) have few credentials as real pro-lifers as far as I can determine. There's plenty of evidence of their demonizing the "religious right", however. Sojourners networks with dozens of groups actively working to expand abortion and homosexual rights. What have they ever done to defend unborn children or help their mothers? Nothing. And these are the advisors who will determine a more effective strategy for life? PLEASE!
Already they're talking about government programs to help women, like the
Reducing the Need for Abortion and Supporting Parents Act, sponsored by Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio and Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, a former NARAL (National Abortion Rights Action League)staff member. Can anyone really believe that a NARAL activist is interested in reducing abortion? If you think so
read the bill's description. It would increase funding for sex education and contraception including contraception for teens. Those things don't reduce pregnancy, they increase promiscuity and teen pregnancy which leads to more abortion.
Humanae Vitae predicted it and subsequent history has born it out. These people are either useful dupes or liars and, frankly, when I read their disingenuous mouthings I come to the conclusion that they are
people of the lie. The outcome of bills like the "Reducing...Abortion...Act" will mean more money for Planned Parenthood and other "reproductive health clinics" that offer the pill in one room and abortions in another. And it is absolutely predictable that legislation will be introduced to hamper the 3500 crisis pregnancy centers in this country, especially those that offer medical care. Archbishop Chaput of Denver said Kmiec and some of these groups have "undermined the progress pro-lifers have made and provided an excuse for some Catholics to abandon the abortion issue." Pro-life activist Joe Scheidler called it a "sellout."
As for the "failed" efforts of the past 35 years, that contention simply isn't true. Abortion rates are down. And Life Site News reports that "
Research from University of Alabama professor Dr. Michael New shows states that have passed the most pro-life laws to reduce abortions have seen the biggest abortion declines."
But that is a thing of the past. The people of America have put a killing machine in place and once it starts working in earnest the blood will flow at a greater rate than we have ever seen before. It's a machine that thrives on human corpses. It is unlikely to stop with the tiny bodies of our unborn children. The only answer for Christians is to continue to defend the innocent and to fall on our knees before the Lord of life and beg his mercy on our poor country.
