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Great! Lila Rose: "A Brief History of Live Action"

The young and hugely impactful group. Here is their full website - Live Action. We should be advertising this group far and wide.

 

Jesuit publication America: column agreeing with Bishops saying abortion should be top Catholic voter priority

The article is 15 paragraphs and written by Alexandra DeSanctis - only takes a few minutes to read the whole article.

U.S. bishops said abortion should be Catholic voters’ top priority. Here’s why they’re right.

Bishop McElroy said the inclusion of the word “preeminent” before the letter’s mention of abortion is at least discordant with and perhaps inconsistent with the pope’s teaching. “It is not Catholic teaching that abortion is the preeminent issue that we face in the world of Catholic social teaching,” he added.

Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia pushed back against this claim, even as he agreed with Bishop McElroy that the pope’s language could be added to the letter. “I am against anyone stating that our stating [abortion] is ‘preeminent’ is contrary to the teaching of the pope. That isn’t true,” he said, noting that it “sets up an artificial battle” between the U.S. bishops and Pope Francis.

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Even though, as Archbishop Chaput said, the church holds that all human lives have equal dignity—and that reality has various policy implications open to prudential disagreements among the faithful on issues like immigration and the climate—Catholic teaching has long held that the right to life is paramount. In other words, Catholics must prioritize the fact that every innocent human being has a right not to be killed, a truth that abortion directly attacks.

Here is how Pope St. John Paul II put it in his apostolic exhortation “Christifideles Laici” in 1988: “The common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights—for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture—is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition for all other personal rights, is not defended with maximum determination.”

 

From Consistent Life - recent various state pro-life initiatives

Not every state has a Cuomo for Governor.  And not every Democrat politician is pro-abortion.

 

So far, there are several abortion initiatives in the works.
        In Louisiana, one is already on the ballot: the Love Life Amendment to say there’s no “right” to abortion in the state constitution. It was sponsored in the state legislature by Democrat Katrina Jackson (pictured), who spoke at the recent Rehumanize International conference in New Orleans.
        In Kansas, the state supreme court has already declared a “right” to abortion, so pro-lifers are asking the Kansas legislature to put a similar amendment on the ballot for Kansas.
        Other initiatives are currently gathering signatures. In Colorado, stopping late-term abortions; Washington state, parental notice to protect minors. Michigan has two, as pro-lifers disagree on what’s most effective: a dismemberment late-term ban, or a ban once there’s a fetal heartbeat.  
     
        We’ll add writing, videos, and artwork to the new website to help educate people on the connections to consistent-life issues. Anyone wanting to contribute those, or simply offer points that should be made or links to other good websites, can send them to [email protected].