Not this Catholic!!!
Ah let’s delve into the “Catholic” world that supports Roe v. Wade. What might we discover as we spelunk into this strange worlds.
The very serious and like totally objective article goes out in search of “Catholics” who don’t want Roe overturned. Where might they find these?
Madison Chastain, a Catholic blogger and disability advocate, describes herself as anti-abortion, yet opposes overturning Roe and criminalizing abortions. Factors that cause abortion, she wrote in the National Catholic Reporter, include lack of comprehensive sex education, inadequate health care, and workplace inequalities.
OK. Who was surprised by it being someone who writes for the National Catholic Reporter? Show of hands?
Chastain went on to say, “Making abortion illegal before addressing these injustices is going to kill women, because women will continue to have abortions, secretively and unsafely.”
This is an argument we’ve heard a million times before and it makes no sense. Let’s butcher the unborn safely. Planned Parenthood had absolutely no oversight from government. They are the back alley but a profitable one.
So who else did the AP find when searching for “Catholics” worried about overturning Roe.
Sam Sawyer, a journalist and Jesuit priest, says he is a “dedicated pro-life advocate” who favors Roe’s reversal. Yet he responded to the leak with an essay listing reasons why abortion rights supporters are so alarmed by that prospect.
“The pro-life movement and its political alliances are perceived as a threat not just to abortion itself but also to democratic norms, to judicial commitments to civil rights, and to women’s health and economic security,“ Sawyer wrote in America, the Jesuit magazine for which he is a senior editor.
Republican politicians, backed by anti-abortion leaders, “have used the lives of the unborn as moral cover for ignoring other calls for justice,” Sawyer wrote. “The pro-life movement’s political allies have gutted social safety net programs that would make it easier for women to carry pregnancies to term.”
I’m sure there were many many many abolitionists who, after the slaves were freed, wrote a list of reasons why it’s so problematic that slaves be freed. That sounds logical, right?
Who’d a thunk that the Jesuit, who is totally a “dedicated pro-life advocate” would hate pro-lifers so vehemently, you know, the people who worked for half a century to overturn Roe.
I’ll give the AP some credit. They knew exactly where to find the resistance, huh? They didn’t go to daily Mass. Nope. Jesuits and the National Catholic Reporter. Yup. That’s fair and objective news gathering, right?
May 31, 2022 at 12:38 pm
First off I would like to apologize to all the Jesuits out there for what I’m about write, who are serious about their vows and follow the Church’s teachings and like the faithful, try to fulfill their responsibilities to God and to the laity.
I give very little mind to what some of your brother Jesuits say anymore. They are no better than Biden or Pelosi in what they believe and teach to others. They themselves are a scandal to the faithful. They confuse people with their ambiguous teachings and give people false hope that the Church will change and accept homosexuality, same-sex union and abortion. I’m sick to my stomach in that I sincerely doubt the Pope has it in him to confront these recalcitrants and their false teachings and utterances. I’m having a hard time believing he will defend the teachings of the Church when it comes to the Martin’s and Sawyers of the world.
May 31, 2022 at 1:57 pm
For ref. CCC 2273 re. abortion in the law: “‘The moment a positive law deprives a category of human beings of the protection which civil legislation ought to accord them, the state is denying the equality of all before the law. When the state does not place its power at the service of the rights of each citizen, and in particular of the more vulnerable, the very foundations of a state based on law are undermined. . . . As a consequence of the respect and protection which ***must be ensured*** for the unborn child from the moment of conception, the law must provide appropriate penal sanctions for every deliberate violation of the child’s rights.'”