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Essay: "Joe Biden Cannot Claim To Fight For Our Nation’s Soul While Supporting Unborn Genocide"

In The Federalist by our own Theresa Bonopartis.

This article contains graphic content about abortion that might be distressing for some readers. "I have had an abortion — a horrific saline abortion in which I gave birth to a dead baby boy after hours of labor. It was over 45 years ago, yet it’s an image that will stay with me forever."

Believe it or not, I am grateful I saw that stark truth, exposing abortion for what it really is, instead of living in the darkness and lies. Like those of countless other women, my abortion was coerced, another truth so often denied or ignored by those claiming abortion is a good. The fallacy of “free choice” is easier to sell than the reality of the betrayal of boyfriends, parents, spouses, or other outside pressures.

As I listened to Sen. Dianne Feinstein during Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings speak of women she knew in the 1950s who suffered and even died from illegal abortion, I could not help but wonder whether Feinstein has ever spoken to the countless women who suffer now, or the families of those who have died from the “safe, legal abortion” she has worked so hard to ensure. Probably not. She can speak about how “distressing” it was for her not to get a straight answer from Barrett regarding whether the judge would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, but it appears Feinstein has no idea of the real distress millions of women experience every day due to a past abortion.

As we digress down this slippery slope we were warned about decades ago, “safe, legal, and rare” has become “safe, legal, and free,” as portrayed in the “Thank God for Abortion Anthem” video making its rounds on the internet. At least those proponents are honest. With more than 60 million abortions since Roe, rare it is not.

Joe Biden speaks of this election as a fight for the “soul of our nation,” and so it is. It is difficult, however, to listen to Biden speak as if he is on some high moral ground when, in fact, he advocates for abortion throughout the entirety of a pregnancy. This disregard for innocent human life goes beyond the soul of our nation. It is a fight for personal souls.

This self-proclaimed “devout” Catholic sadly has the support of some bishops, who tell their flocks they can vote for him “in good conscience.” Anyone who takes the time to contemplate the more than 60 million deaths of innocent babies, however, knows this cannot come from a good conscience, but from an absence of one.

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Two recent rescues! One blockading - risking Federal charges - and one Red Rose Rescue

The blockade rescue, on Thursday October 22nd in Washington DC, means the seven arrested could be charged under the federal FACE (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances) law which makes it a federal crime to block access. Of course this is really a political crime since other actions blocking a clinic - such as a union protest against wages or work conditions - are NOT violations under FACE.

The full story is here -

The group was composed of 23 people from different religious and political leanings, all united in the purpose of shutting down the facility for the day. Rescuers blocked the entrances of the abortion facility’s doors and stationed themselves around the complex, to form a physical block on access to the building. Once inside, the rescuers sought to offer help to families who were seeking abortion, counselling them to change their minds about aborting their babies, praying with them, and informing them on local resource centers.

The week before, on Wednesday, October 14th there was a Red Rose Rescue (RRR) at Planned Parenthood in Shrewsbury, NJ.

The complete story is here -

At 9:10 am EST this morning, two veteran pro-lifers, Fr. Fidelis Moscinski, CFR and Joan Andrews Bell, entered the Planned Parenthood in Shrewsbury, NJ.

Once inside, they gently approached mothers seated in the waiting room and offered them red roses as a symbol of life. Attached to each rose was a card that stated on one side “You were made to love and to be loved...your goodness is greater than the difficulties of your situation. Circumstances in life change. A new life, however tiny, brings the promise of unrepeatable joy.”

Dr. Monica Migliorino Miller, director of the Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, gave a statement regarding the rescue: “The Red Rose Rescue in Shrewsbury is a true defense of the unborn about to be put to death - but the goal is to also reach out to the mothers who are inside the abortion center, to talk to them, offer them words of encouragement to give life to their unborn children and offer them real practical material help. This is why the rescuers go into the abortion center. We go where the women are! They have passed by the sidewalk counsellors but the Red Rose Rescuers simply go that one extra step before it is too late.”

Westchester County Exec George Latimer invites you to an "Open Conversation on Women's Issues"

Of course this will be a big pro-abortion glorification/celebration. Pro-life women may wish to register and get our points across. Hit this link and scroll down. Their flyer is embedded below the link.

An Open Conversation on Women's Issues

 

 

Amy Coney Barrett and her "People of Praise" community

First, here's the People of Praise website:

Who We Are: People of Praise is a charismatic Christian community. We admire the first Christians who were led by the Holy Spirit to form a community. Those early believers put their lives and their possessions in common, and "there were no needy persons among them."

The Catholic League put out some bullet points in a PR: IN DEFENSE OF PEOPLE OF PRAISE

With the impending battle over Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the Supreme Court, many reporters are focusing on a charismatic Christian organization, People of Praise, to which Barrett reportedly belongs.

 

Much of the coverage has been negative. The media and left-wing activists have tried to present this group as a fringe cult. These claims are bogus. People of Praise is comprised of many well-educated Christians. Indeed, they are a vibrant community that makes the Church stronger. Consider what those who know the organization have said about it.

 

• • Sean Connelly, communications director for People of Praise, said, "[C]harges of the mistreatment of women, insularity, lack of privacy and shunning are contradictory to our beliefs and our practices as a community." 

• • Connelly also said, "Contrary to what has been alleged, women take on a variety of critical leadership roles within People of Praise, including serving as heads of several of our schools and directing ministries within our community."

• • Joannah Clark, who grew up in People of Praise and is now the head of the Trinity Academy in Portland, Oregon says, "This role of the husband as the head of the family is not a position of power or domination.... It’s a position of care and service and responsibility. Men are looking out for the good and well-being of their families."

• • Clark also said, "At any point, a community member can decide to leave and is free to do so."

• • Clark added, "There’s a high value on personal freedom," and "I've never been asked to do anything against my own free will. I have never been dominated or controlled by a man."

• • Clark further added, "I consider myself a strong, well-educated, happy, intelligent, free, independent woman." "We are normal people – there's women who are nurses, doctors, teachers, scientists, stay-at-home moms... We are in Christian community because we take our faith seriously. We are not weird and mysterious... And we are not controlled by men."

• • The late Cardinal Francis George wrote, "In my acquaintance with the People of Praise, I have found men and women dedicated to God and eager to seek and do His divine will. They are shaped by love of Holy Scripture, prayer and community; and the Church’s mission is richer for their presence."

• • Bishop Peter Smith, an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Portland, Oregon and member of People of Praise, said, "We're a lay movement in the Church.... We continue to try and live out life and our calling as Catholics, as baptized Christians, in this particular way, as other people do in other callings or ways that God may lead them into the Church."

• • Nathan W. O'Halloran, a Jesuit who grew up in a charismatic Catholic group, writes in America Magazine that "the charismatic movement...has been an answer to the prayer and the desire of many Catholics to live a more animated and evangelistic Christian life."

• • Dan Philpott, a Notre Dame political science professor whose children attend Trinity School, run by People of Praise, said, "In my view, the phrases 'right' and 'conservative' aren't really helpful. Most Catholic lay organizations are there to help people live faithful Christian lives. It's hard to say that the causes it supports are really 'left' or 'right.' Its mission is really not political."

• • Nicolas Rowan of the Washington Examiner, observes that "The group has enjoyed friendly relations with Pope Francis, contrary to many politically conservative Catholics."

• • In the Associated Press, current members described People of Praise as, "a Christian fellowship, focused on building community. One member described it as a 'family of families,' who commit themselves to each other in mutual support to live together 'through thick and thin.'"

• • The AP also notes that "People of Praise has a strong commitment to intellectualism, evidenced in part by the schools they have established, which have a reputation for intellectual rigor."

• • The AP also reports that "Barrett’s parents are both registered Democrats, according to Louisiana voter registration records."

• • In a Politico article, Adam Wren says, "What's difficult to understand outside of South Bend, however, is just how deeply integrated this group is into the local community." (Anyone who has studied cults knows that cults try to cut their members off from the rest of society.)

• • Peggy Noonan writes in the Wall Street Journal, "O. Carter Snead, a Notre Dame law professor and director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, notes, Amy Barrett – herself a law professor as well as a judge – appears to be failing at being submissive and a total disaster at being subjugated."

 

If any senator wants to vote against Barrett, he or she will have to come up with something more credible than trying to paint People of Praise as some kind of nutty organization.

 

Amen!