Tuesday of last week (16th of August) was the feast day of St. Stephen, proto-matryr of the Christian faith. There is another St. Stephen, who was grand prince of Hungary at the beginning of the last millennium. He is the patron saint of that country and, by reading her constitution, it's edifying for humanity that it bears the golden hallmarks of holiness and saintliness. In a recent article in the journal on religion and public life, First Things, there was a piece about how this awareness of it's own past and traditions has made it a shining jewel in an increasingly secular Europe. Enshrined in it's constitution is recognition of the dignity of all human life from conception to natural death and an upholding of the sanctity of marriage and an affirmation of it's primacy in the functioning of a healthy society and it's centrality to the genesis of new life. Children deserver to be brought up by their natural parents to the extent that this is possible. It's refreshing and proper that a government should uphold and sustain this time tested and naturally harmonious paradigm.
According to a report from EWTN
“Human dignity is inviolable,” the constitution states. “Everyone has the right to life and human dignity; the life of a fetus will be protected from conception.”
“Eugenic practices aimed at selection of persons, making the human body and its parts a source of profit and the reproductive cloning of human beings are prohibited,” the document adds.
The new constitution also states that “Hungary protects the institution of marriage between man and woman, a matrimonial relationship voluntarily established, as well as the family as the basis for the survival of the nation. Hungary supports child-bearing.”
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Monday, August 8, 2011
The 3 % Planned Parenthood distortion
There was a very insightful article recently published by Abort73, a campaign to have the Roe Vs. Wade supreme court decision to ultimately be rolled back. The article can be found here and it speaks of the distorted numerics which Planned Parenthood bandy about to camouflage how many abortions they actually carry out and claim legitimacy as a general health care clinic to raise funds from an unsuspecting public and mislead federal initiatives. When I encountered a young man who was attempting to gather funds in the street for Planned Parenthood, he defended my accusation that they perform the bulk of the abortions in America, he responded with a canned reply - "abortions consist of only 3 % of our services. Since many debates and arguments have been seen to have been won and lost on the basis of definitions alone, it's worthwhile to consider what they mean by a service. It's turns out that an abortion is indeed a "service", although what kind of service this really is and in whose service it's really done is quite another matter. But by their economic reckoning, handing out a condom is also a service. So, they have played down the percentages by doing more of something else.
Since they are known to perform the bulk of abortions every year in America (around 305,000) there must be a more honest metric. They are, in the main, a private business and so making money is a large part of what they do, so in terms of revenue, the fraction of abortions per year brings in about $ 182 million of the $374 million total revenue as reported by the STOPP report of September 29th 2010. That's on top of the bone-chilling $536 million they get in government and contributions. So a much more fiscal, economical and common sense picture of how much of what Planned Parenthood actually does is abortion can be depicted as follows :
But the really interesting question is this : why are they downplaying the fact that providing abortion, amid the services which backup a promiscuous lifestyle (contraception, STD testing, etc), is such a large part of what they do. It's as if they really see abortion as the horror that it is, deep down. If there is nothing wrong with abortions why down play how much one does it ? And, as the Abort73
articles says : if there's nothing wrong with abortion, then what's wrong with teenage pregnancy ? You can leave a baby at any police station, hospital or manned firestation in Massachusetts within 10 days of giving birth. With the help and care of such crisis pregnancy centers as Caritas Christi, Daybreak and Pregnancy Help Boston, there's always support and hope if you have the courage and confidence to get through it. Anything is better for both the baby and parents, then the murder of an innocent.
Since they are known to perform the bulk of abortions every year in America (around 305,000) there must be a more honest metric. They are, in the main, a private business and so making money is a large part of what they do, so in terms of revenue, the fraction of abortions per year brings in about $ 182 million of the $374 million total revenue as reported by the STOPP report of September 29th 2010. That's on top of the bone-chilling $536 million they get in government and contributions. So a much more fiscal, economical and common sense picture of how much of what Planned Parenthood actually does is abortion can be depicted as follows :
But the really interesting question is this : why are they downplaying the fact that providing abortion, amid the services which backup a promiscuous lifestyle (contraception, STD testing, etc), is such a large part of what they do. It's as if they really see abortion as the horror that it is, deep down. If there is nothing wrong with abortions why down play how much one does it ? And, as the Abort73
articles says : if there's nothing wrong with abortion, then what's wrong with teenage pregnancy ? You can leave a baby at any police station, hospital or manned firestation in Massachusetts within 10 days of giving birth. With the help and care of such crisis pregnancy centers as Caritas Christi, Daybreak and Pregnancy Help Boston, there's always support and hope if you have the courage and confidence to get through it. Anything is better for both the baby and parents, then the murder of an innocent.
Monday, July 11, 2011
The Philadelphia House of Horrors
An article published in National Public Radio (Weekend Edition by Kathy Lohr) started with the headline "A murder case involving a sordid Philadelphia abortion clinic is fueling debate about how clinics should be run, with several states considering stricter regulations." Now this a strange reporting slant. I would expect such an horrific story of baby murder to be stir up debate - but not a debate about how strictly these murder mills should be monitored, but rather why on earth is it an act of brutality to destroy an innocent infant
at the 7th or 8th month of pregnancy, when it is deemed legal and morally acceptable to do so at month 6 (in Pennsylvania) ? What kind of logic s behind this ? No kind of logic at all ! Since when is the age of child the arbiter of it's moral worth ? Since when does the location of the baby's body with respect to which side of the birth canal determine whether it is acceptable to murder him or her ? The horrors of the baby murdering industry has boiled over more graphically into our conscious awareness, but the news reports from the left-wing media are concerned about the squalor and sanitary conditions of these places ?
The New York times carried the story with a similar slant in their report of Kermit Gosnell's house of horrors.
In fairness, sanity (and editorial balance) did seem to prevail by the end of the article with the words : “Some anti-abortion activists in Philadelphia say they hope to raise money as a result of the Gosnell case — enough to buy his clinic and turn it into a crisis pregnancy center that would not offer abortion.” That's progress.
But at the same time, can anyone out there answer a simple question ? What exactly is the difference between the Philadelphia house of horrors and any Planned Parenthood clinic apart from the fact that, in the case of the latter, the staff clean up (and cover up) more efficiently ?
at the 7th or 8th month of pregnancy, when it is deemed legal and morally acceptable to do so at month 6 (in Pennsylvania) ? What kind of logic s behind this ? No kind of logic at all ! Since when is the age of child the arbiter of it's moral worth ? Since when does the location of the baby's body with respect to which side of the birth canal determine whether it is acceptable to murder him or her ? The horrors of the baby murdering industry has boiled over more graphically into our conscious awareness, but the news reports from the left-wing media are concerned about the squalor and sanitary conditions of these places ?
The New York times carried the story with a similar slant in their report of Kermit Gosnell's house of horrors.
In fairness, sanity (and editorial balance) did seem to prevail by the end of the article with the words : “Some anti-abortion activists in Philadelphia say they hope to raise money as a result of the Gosnell case — enough to buy his clinic and turn it into a crisis pregnancy center that would not offer abortion.” That's progress.
But at the same time, can anyone out there answer a simple question ? What exactly is the difference between the Philadelphia house of horrors and any Planned Parenthood clinic apart from the fact that, in the case of the latter, the staff clean up (and cover up) more efficiently ?
Friday, July 8, 2011
Rosary Vigil for Life in Allston, MA
Please join us for the Rosary Vigil for Life tomorrow :
Rosary Vigil for Life: under the Banner of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Sponsored by: The Helper's of God's Precious Infants
Second Saturday of each month
Rosary (fifteen decades, interspersed with song) at Planned Parenthood abortion facility
-8:45AM Procession starts at corner of Babcock St. and Commonwealth Ave. (One block from Planned Parenthood)
-Drive to Commonwealth Ave. (Meter Parking)
By MBTA: Babcock Street stop on Green Line "B" train for PP abortion facility.
-For those interested there is an 8:00AM mass at St. Mary's parish, 5 Linden Place Brookline (Off Harvard Street in Brookline Center)
Location : 1055 Commonwealth Av., Allston, MA
Sunday, May 22, 2011
21st May : Doomsday ?
Yesterday was a strange day, it was hailed to be the end of the world, the day of final judgment by the sect Family Radio Worldwide and it was predicted to occur at 5 pm (EST?) on the 21st May, 2011. It didn't happen. On a personal level, what did happened were some interesting exchanges outside of the Allston, MA center of Planned Parenthood (or, more accurately Aborted Parenthood). I stood on the corner of the side-walk with two signs - one saying "Face it : Abortion Kills a Child" and another sign which read "End the Abortion Holocaust" on which was pictured a graphic depiction of an aborted baby. I stood within in 35 foot zone (after having been informed by the security guard, who, after having informed me that he saw nothing wrong with my standing there and having my say, told me to back off a little to be outside what is called the 'bumper zone'. Obviously this facility has had problems in the past with crowds of conscientious objectors and protesters outside who were clogging up the street access and thorough-fare.
I received well wishes from about two groups of people who expressed solidarity and moral support. While about 6 others expressed great discontent my presence and the signs I was touting. The first was a man who complained vigorously that the graphic picture of one of my signs could have disturbed his young daughter. He said : "I don't need my 5 year-old daughter seeing this (expletive)". Well, I sympathize and I was glad that he valued his daughter's innocence and upbringing such that his blood would boil to that degree. But, while it's distressing that his daughter might see these images - they are just images. If that depiction of those dead babies shocks and appalls him
, then the actions performed to get them to that state should outrage him all the more. I am just depicting what they do, they actually carry out what they do. I'm only there because they murder and destroy innocent ones like his daughter and younger. Don't bother getting angry at me, get angry at them. I'm not sick, what they are doing is sick, and murderous.
Another accosting was received from a woman who obliquely yet angrily heckled (I shall omit the expletives here)- 'we should not hear from these men....who don't even know what its like to be pregnant'. I'm not sure why this comment was made. I don't have to have first hand experience of something to know whether it's right or wrong. I don't have to be pregnant and undergo abortion to criticize this action anymore than I have to commit murder to know that killing an innocent human being is wrong.
Anther altercation came in the form of a man asking whether I was aware that we (Christians) were supposed to have been raptured already. But Catholics don't believe in the rapture, at least not in the way that the Family Radio Worldwide understand it. Another man was most disturbed by the sign about the current holocaust. He took a picture with his iphone as evidence of crazy people like myself. For an instant I thought that he was supporting my efforts. But no - he yelled 'you're sick' and said that I should not use the term 'holocaust' and his opined that that word is somehow reserved for the Jews. But there have been many many holocausts throughout history - the Russian exterminations during the Stalin era, executions under Chairman Mao and Pol Pot or the Pagan child sacrifices of the Aztecs to the Cromwelian destruction of the Irish peasantry. There are many others, alas. And my antagonists inability to recognize the abortion holocaust as such indicates he probably would have remained silent and uncritical during that more recent holocaust of the Jews in Nazi Germany as well. One other woman said simply ' get over yourself'. There was hope, however. One group of people who looked like tourists or those in town for a graduation, were looking over and seemed to want a photo opportunity as they began to flank me from both sides. As they edged up, they said 'we're with you', words I was more than happy to hear. It turned out they were from Santiago de Compostela, Spain, which was emblazoned on my shirt depicting Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the pilgrimage site. Their solidarity and moral support was a nice surprise. A well dressed businessman noticed my sign, stopped, shook my hands and asked whether I was a follower of Christ. Amongst other things he said that 'abortion is a stain on the conscience of America'.
I received well wishes from about two groups of people who expressed solidarity and moral support. While about 6 others expressed great discontent my presence and the signs I was touting. The first was a man who complained vigorously that the graphic picture of one of my signs could have disturbed his young daughter. He said : "I don't need my 5 year-old daughter seeing this (expletive)". Well, I sympathize and I was glad that he valued his daughter's innocence and upbringing such that his blood would boil to that degree. But, while it's distressing that his daughter might see these images - they are just images. If that depiction of those dead babies shocks and appalls him
, then the actions performed to get them to that state should outrage him all the more. I am just depicting what they do, they actually carry out what they do. I'm only there because they murder and destroy innocent ones like his daughter and younger. Don't bother getting angry at me, get angry at them. I'm not sick, what they are doing is sick, and murderous.
Another accosting was received from a woman who obliquely yet angrily heckled (I shall omit the expletives here)- 'we should not hear from these men....who don't even know what its like to be pregnant'. I'm not sure why this comment was made. I don't have to have first hand experience of something to know whether it's right or wrong. I don't have to be pregnant and undergo abortion to criticize this action anymore than I have to commit murder to know that killing an innocent human being is wrong.
Anther altercation came in the form of a man asking whether I was aware that we (Christians) were supposed to have been raptured already. But Catholics don't believe in the rapture, at least not in the way that the Family Radio Worldwide understand it. Another man was most disturbed by the sign about the current holocaust. He took a picture with his iphone as evidence of crazy people like myself. For an instant I thought that he was supporting my efforts. But no - he yelled 'you're sick' and said that I should not use the term 'holocaust' and his opined that that word is somehow reserved for the Jews. But there have been many many holocausts throughout history - the Russian exterminations during the Stalin era, executions under Chairman Mao and Pol Pot or the Pagan child sacrifices of the Aztecs to the Cromwelian destruction of the Irish peasantry. There are many others, alas. And my antagonists inability to recognize the abortion holocaust as such indicates he probably would have remained silent and uncritical during that more recent holocaust of the Jews in Nazi Germany as well. One other woman said simply ' get over yourself'. There was hope, however. One group of people who looked like tourists or those in town for a graduation, were looking over and seemed to want a photo opportunity as they began to flank me from both sides. As they edged up, they said 'we're with you', words I was more than happy to hear. It turned out they were from Santiago de Compostela, Spain, which was emblazoned on my shirt depicting Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the pilgrimage site. Their solidarity and moral support was a nice surprise. A well dressed businessman noticed my sign, stopped, shook my hands and asked whether I was a follower of Christ. Amongst other things he said that 'abortion is a stain on the conscience of America'.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Just war doctrine, Planned Parenthood and the principalities and powers of darkness
The center and pinnacle of Catholic worship is the Holy Eucharist, the Blessed Sacrament over which the priest, in personae Christi says "This is My Body". This is the perfect sacrifice of our supreme God who loves us so much that he gave his very Flesh and Blood so that we might have life and not be bound by sin and death. Christians are the limbs and agents of Christ's body in the world, from the Pope and the greatest saints to the devout layman. And all bodies need nourishment, spiritual nourishment. We confess and repent and stay true to the doctrines of Holy Mother Church before we approach the greatest of all sacraments, still trembling with awe and reverence. We are what we eat.
Now, when Catholics engage in the battle against the evils of abortion, we are not battling against those misguided, woefully misinformed and quite frankly exploited generation of would-be mothers whose wombs are violated by the abortionists instruments. We are not even battling against the so-called clinicians or doctors and managers of these abortion mills. For we are told to love our enemy. No, we are truly battling against principalities and powers of total darkness. We fear for and care for the human beings caught up in this. It does lasting violence to the prospective mother, most women regret having an abortion, and it does horrible violence to the child. As Catholics, who are often accused of being judgmental when they rail against evil actions, are being nothing of the kind. We have a worldview in which evil is truly objectified and unhuman. We categorize actions, not character or person-hood as evil. The naturalist or sketical scientist is only has the human being to hate as the terminus of the committed evil. We are your friends. War against demons is always just, they always have our destruction as their number one agenda, staring with the weakest.
As Peter Kreeft of Boston College writes in his readable and incisive boiling-down of the Church Catechism in "Catholic Christianity", he writes "no war is just in itself...the choice to go to war can be just ..the aim of [going to war] is peace. The aim is not taking lives but saving lives: the live of innocent victims of aggression". Now, I cannot think of a set of more innocent victims that those unborn babies. So, all wars start with declarations of war. We ought to go down there to those houses of horror and with the best and most charitable voice, declare this war. We must make them answer, no longer can the linguistic evasions and legalistic cover-ups be put up with.
According to the May 2011 edition of Townhall magazine, Planned Parenthood, started by the eugenicist and Marxist who advocated the forced sterilization (and "birth control" - her coinage) of the poor and mentally deficient. When the biggest commercial "non-profit" abortion mill baby murderer in North America holds 1.2 billion in assets and boasts 700,000 active contributors, we have to wonder why on earth, there is even any question of continuing the 350 million dollars it gets annually from the federal government by way of the hard-earned cash of working America. And what group are being persecuted with the 33 % of all terrible abortion - African Americans in poverty. It's looks like the founder got her way. How can the collective conscience of God fearing Americans put up with this ? It borders on a degree of complicity one could accuse the normally scrupulous Germans during the late 1930s and early 1940s...
Let's resuscitate that first casualty of the operations of evil - truth. Let's make war against those demons who, with their evil sneer against the grammar of existence, feeding the lie in the ear of the raging hater of the unborn. Clutching their bellies in selfish sovereignty, claiming it as all their own, and as the good Prof. Kreeft indicates, in the satanic inversion of the Holy - "This is my body".
Now, when Catholics engage in the battle against the evils of abortion, we are not battling against those misguided, woefully misinformed and quite frankly exploited generation of would-be mothers whose wombs are violated by the abortionists instruments. We are not even battling against the so-called clinicians or doctors and managers of these abortion mills. For we are told to love our enemy. No, we are truly battling against principalities and powers of total darkness. We fear for and care for the human beings caught up in this. It does lasting violence to the prospective mother, most women regret having an abortion, and it does horrible violence to the child. As Catholics, who are often accused of being judgmental when they rail against evil actions, are being nothing of the kind. We have a worldview in which evil is truly objectified and unhuman. We categorize actions, not character or person-hood as evil. The naturalist or sketical scientist is only has the human being to hate as the terminus of the committed evil. We are your friends. War against demons is always just, they always have our destruction as their number one agenda, staring with the weakest.
As Peter Kreeft of Boston College writes in his readable and incisive boiling-down of the Church Catechism in "Catholic Christianity", he writes "no war is just in itself...the choice to go to war can be just ..the aim of [going to war] is peace. The aim is not taking lives but saving lives: the live of innocent victims of aggression". Now, I cannot think of a set of more innocent victims that those unborn babies. So, all wars start with declarations of war. We ought to go down there to those houses of horror and with the best and most charitable voice, declare this war. We must make them answer, no longer can the linguistic evasions and legalistic cover-ups be put up with.
According to the May 2011 edition of Townhall magazine, Planned Parenthood, started by the eugenicist and Marxist who advocated the forced sterilization (and "birth control" - her coinage) of the poor and mentally deficient. When the biggest commercial "non-profit" abortion mill baby murderer in North America holds 1.2 billion in assets and boasts 700,000 active contributors, we have to wonder why on earth, there is even any question of continuing the 350 million dollars it gets annually from the federal government by way of the hard-earned cash of working America. And what group are being persecuted with the 33 % of all terrible abortion - African Americans in poverty. It's looks like the founder got her way. How can the collective conscience of God fearing Americans put up with this ? It borders on a degree of complicity one could accuse the normally scrupulous Germans during the late 1930s and early 1940s...
Let's resuscitate that first casualty of the operations of evil - truth. Let's make war against those demons who, with their evil sneer against the grammar of existence, feeding the lie in the ear of the raging hater of the unborn. Clutching their bellies in selfish sovereignty, claiming it as all their own, and as the good Prof. Kreeft indicates, in the satanic inversion of the Holy - "This is my body".
Friday, April 8, 2011
U.S. government threatens to come to a standstill because of ......Abortion Mills
Can it be possible that people want the tax payers dollars to go to fund what is supposed to be a private abortion provider so badly, that are willing to bring the country to a stand-still ? One of the (only?) stumbling blocks in the way of finding a mutually agreeable budget between Republicans and Democrats centers around the 362 million dollars which go the the nation's number 1 abortion "services" (to kill an unborn child is not a service, but an horrific disservice). How can this be ? Do pro abortion complicit government agents really want us to actually pay for the human holocaust which abortion providers perpetrate on the weakest of our society ? The claim is that they only use the tax-payer money on activities other than abortion. It's hard to believe, considering that 98 % of what they do is abortion (see the recent, fairly balanced The Hill Blog article. There could not be a more critical time that now to get in touch with the Representatives and Senators in order to break the deadlock over this issue (see the link from Kristin Hawkins of Students for Life - here - you can dial in your zip code, get in contact, and make the case against what is at least the worst abuse of tax-payer spending, and at worst (in reality) complicity in the most horrific holocaust of modern times.
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