The mother of all atrocities
Abortion has become so mainstreamed in this country and much of Western Europe, the word and its euphemisms can lose the force of reality.
Here’s a bracing smack of reality.
The prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments, Cardinal Antonio Canizares, asserted on Monday that Spain’s laws, which “must protect the defenseless, are being used today to eliminate those who are weak, innocent and defenseless.â€
During remarks at King Juan Carlos University, Cardinal Canizares said, “Medicine must be for curing and not for killing. Laws must serve to protect the defenseless but they are being used to kill these human beings. The present situation reminds us precisely of the gravity of abortion, a reality that reflects so many things.
“Without a doubt nothing else more clearly manifests the crisis of humanity we are suffering,†he said.
Abortion is a “very grave†problem, he said, and humanity needs to be aware that the greatest crisis we are suffering is the “47 million legal abortions†that, according to the World Organization of Health, take place each year. “This is something unprecedented in the history of humanity,†the cardinal noted.
He ought to come to the US, where the Obama administration and many members of Congress are trying to rush through a health care overhaul that will mandate taxpayer funded abortion and spread its access widely. The word “abortion” is nowhere in the dense bills, but all kinds of provisions are there requiring unfettered access to it as a “reproductive” and “essential health” service.
This cardinal calls it what it is:
“This practice is a crime, the killing of a human life, an innocent, weak and defenseless human being. Is there any other greater atrocity?†he asked.
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I was told by someone recently who’s religious that he doesn’t understand why some of us “obsess” over abortion when so many other social justice issues should take precedence.