This is disgusting. New York City Council is seeking to provide escorts for women entering abortion clinics.
Presumably, taxpayer money will fund this operation at some level. A number of pro-lifers protested this plan over the weekend.
The clinic president said they need the government escorts because women “have the right” to abortion “without people praying for their souls.”
Ugh.
The NY Daily News reports:
Msgr. Philip Reilly of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Jamaica described Quinn’s program as one-sided government
“It doesn’t make sense. She’s supposed to be my representative,” said Reilly, who organized Saturday’s protest. “If she wants to do that, she should resign.”
On Friday, Quinn announced that the City Council will begin deploying volunteers on Nov. 1 to help protect patients at abortion clinics.
“Having this program will help ensure women’s safety,” Merle Hoffman, president of the Choices clinic, said of the City Council’s Clinic Protection Program.
“Women should have the right to make their choices without people praying for their souls,” said Hoffman, who was joined about 15 supporters in front her clinic Saturday for a counter demonstration
It’s not clear what powers these “escorts” will have as they’re going to be agents of the government.
Something tells me that when it comes to a court to decide between our right to pray and someone else’s “right” not to be prayed for, we’ll end up on the losing side.
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October 22, 2012 at 5:06 am
Ain't no stupid like New York stupid.
October 22, 2012 at 10:29 am
That's creepy, agent-of-satan creepy.
October 22, 2012 at 12:44 pm
The law casts aspersions of criminality and is taxation without representation. It is immpossible to pray without praying for all. "OUR Father,", "WE give thee, thanks." This denies the right of a free people to peaceably assemble and to petition government and God for redress. A person's presence cannot be denied to access to a public place. You own it all, and I own it all in joint and common tenancy. Government of the people, does not own it at all.
October 22, 2012 at 1:15 pm
If clinics want escorts, they can recruit their own volunteers — as plenty have. That is not the job of government. No one has the right to do something without having someone else pray for his/her soul. What, we're not allowed to pray now? If I were in that district I would recruit volunteers to stand outside the rerpresentative's office for a week or so and pray for her soul and the souls of anyone who goes in and out of it. Or better yet, have them stand there with signs that say "Maybe praying for your soul, maybe just standing here."
October 22, 2012 at 1:41 pm
Where do they stand on Buddhist monks protesting the Vietnam War, or the military junta in Burma?
Tianenmen Square, pro or con?
October 22, 2012 at 3:14 pm
A woman who may be changing her mind in the matter of abortion being escorted into the abortion dimension by a pro-abort individual is being coerced. Exhibited by their complete absence of knowledge about the human person and the human person’s sovereign soul, this bill intends to prevent a pregnant woman from choosing life for her unborn child by presenting a guard against the woman, using her free will to change her mind. A person’s exercise of free will, a condition of the human soul is a prerogative of free people. The proof of a free will choice is a woman who walks into the abortion by herself. A violation of the free will of the woman to choose life is a violation of all freedom. This denial of freedom for the citizen and her free will choice may not be funded by taxes, which are collected by the government to promote the common good.
A right to not have people pray for your soul does exist, but it exists in the invisible, metaphysical world of rejecting God, not the political world and certainly not to be paid for by everyone's public tax dollars.
Prayer in a public place is representative of the sovereign person’s rational, immortal soul and his relationship with his Creator which is called religion and is protected under the First Amendment. Prayer is offered up for all persons, as it is impossible to separate God from HIS Creatures, as the creatures and all creation will perish without “their Creator”* keeping them in existence.
*from the Declaration of Independence.
October 22, 2012 at 3:34 pm
There isn't a bodyguard or "escort" large enough that can prevent someone's prayers from reaching God's ears.
Keep up the praying! If this is what the pro-abortion community is resorting then this shows their defenses are weakening.
October 22, 2012 at 9:13 pm
It is true that no one can stop prayers but the obamination could stop the praying presence at the abortion mills such as what happens with the 40 Days for Life prayer vigils.
And once a woman goes into the death camp, they will not let her leave or others come and get her so she cannot change her mind. I have seen the abortion workers chase a woman and force her back into the mill.
"Escort" a woman to the killing place–mortal sin.
October 23, 2012 at 1:23 am
Do the babies have a right to be prayed for? Oh no, how stupid of me!
October 23, 2012 at 1:54 am
If people would just stop making up stupid "rights" it would be awesome. The tolerant left…
October 23, 2012 at 3:22 am
That's like saying one has a right not to be loved or helped.