Kansas Governor Is Forcing Disabled People Off Medicaid<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nGod\u2019s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you. \u2013 Romans 2:24<\/p>\n
Not a few conservative Catholics will argue \u201cBut this is a prudential judgment! Abortion is not a prudential judgment\u201d.<\/p>\n
True. So think about it. Why is it that \u201cprudential judgment\u201d is always invoked in order to justify ignoring the obviously good and decent thing to do in clear contempt of the spirit of Christ and never to justify doing the Christian thing? Why not approach it the other way round and say, \u201cIf we are trying to win hearts to the prolife cause, would it not be better to err (if you want to call it \u201cerring\u201d) on the side of *not* scandalizing normal people by treating the disabled like garbage?\u201d<\/p>\n
Normal people look at behavior like this and do not conclude \u201cAbortion is what truly matters!\u201d They look at it and very rightly conclude that \u201cprolife\u201d people care more about dumping on the weak, disabled, and poor than about taking the slightest effort to rally normal people to the prolife cause. They rightly perceive that what really interests the anti-abortion-but-not-prolife pol and his supporters is not the sacredness of *all* human life from conception to natural death, but the use of the unborn as human shields for what are often profoundly inhuman ideological agendas.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kansas Governor Is Forcing Disabled People Off Medicaid God\u2019s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you. \u2013 Romans 2:24 Not a few conservative Catholics will argue \u201cBut this is a prudential judgment! Abortion is not a prudential judgment\u201d. True. So think about it. Why is it that \u201cprudential judgment\u201d is always invoked in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[442],"class_list":["post-55617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-prolife-means-more-than-anti-abortion"],"yoast_head":"\n
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