We should overturn Roe v Wade. Abortion, except to save the life of the mother or to prevent the permanent loss or damage to the mother’s bodily organs, should be illegal.
I oppose abortion, rape, discrimination against women, violence against women, the sexual double standard, euthanasia, stratification of our society along lines of money, racism, gay baiting, race baiting, anti-semitism, attacks on religious freedom, attacks on the pope, blind partisan politics that puts political parties above the welfare of this nation and even above following Christ.
I am a pew-sitting, sometimes conservative, sometimes liberal, pro life, Jesus-loving Catholic.
Abortion is wrong, and it must be illegal. I say that for one reason: Abortion kills a living child. If abortion did not kill a living child, it would be the height of cruelty to make abortion illegal.
Rape, misogyny, hatred and degradation of women is wrong for one reason: Women are human beings, made in the Image and Likeness of God. Misogyny is a direct attack on that Image of God that is woman. It is also an attack on Our Lady, on maternity and the life force that women embody.
Rape is the twin brother of abortion and often leads to abortion. Both abortion and rape attack the life-giving power of women. Both rape and abortion attack maternity. Both of them are human beings acting on behalf of satan to attack The Woman, Our Lady, at the source.
I want to see Roe v Wade overturned. I want it because laws that define a group of human beings as less than human and say that we may kill them at will are anathema. I want it because abortion kills people.
I also want to see an end to misogyny, violence against women and rape. I want it because you do not molest, rape, beat, torture and degrade people. Any religious teaching, social practice or group of laws that defines half the human race as less than fully human and promotes relegating them to second-class status, that subjects them to violence, abuse and discrimination, is anathema. Misogyny is wrong because it allows half the people God made to degrade, limit, destroy and even kill the other half of the people God made.
You cannot justify abortion with misogyny. You must not make deals with the devil to attack legal abortion by justifying rape, rapists, sexual predators, misogynists and woman haters. That is anathema.
Satan is the author of both abortion and misogyny. You can not follow both satan and Christ. It is a practical impossibility. To oppose abortion and favor misogyny is following Satan. To favor abortion and oppose misogyny is following Satan. Following Jesus means you must love both the baby and the mother. There is no place for either abortion or misogyny in the heart of a follower of Christ.
People who favor legal abortion usually do so because they see it as the only way to deal with the injustice and cruelty of misogyny.
There was a time when people who opposed legal abortion said they loved the mother too. Love them both was their slogan.
Roe v Wade needs to be overturned with a just law. Bad laws that punish and harm women will only lead to overturning the overturn.
You can choose to oppose legal abortion and misogyny both. It will be a lonely outpost of a position, but it is the right one.
Jesus never said that you could find Him by following the crowd. Simeon prophesied that Jesus would be a sign of contradiction when He was an eight day old baby.
If you’re going to follow Him, you must resign yourself to being a sign of contradiction, as well.
Don’t give up on doing what’s right. But do it with love. Do it with prayer. Do it in league with the Holy Spirit. Do it in faith. Do it because Jesus died to save you and you owe Him a debt you can never repay.
God will take care of the rest.
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