While Obama has often used the right wing frames when it comes to abortion, Obama made a promise to those of us who support reproductive freedom. His promise was that one of his first acts as president would be to sign the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA).
What is FOCA? It’s a bill that forbids state interference with the reproductive choices of women. Every statute, ordinance, regulation, administrative order, decision, policy, practice or other action present and future will be considered null and void.
So, what’s a anti-choice activists to do? Why vow to continue the war against against women, of course. And that’s exactly what a group of Catholic bishops here in America have promised:
The nation’s Catholic bishops decided yesterday to fire an opening salvo at the incoming Obama administration, pledging to work with the new president on issues such as immigration and healthcare but also warning that the Catholic Church will do everything it can to oppose his support for abortion rights.
Meeting a week after Democrat Barack Obama, a strong supporter of abortion rights, won a majority of the Catholic vote en route to a relatively easy victory, the bishops were clearly agitated by the prospect of eased restrictions on abortion rights over the next four years.
Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Chicago warned that Catholic hospitals might have to close if, as he and other bishops fear based on legislation considered by Congress this year, a Democratic Congress and a sympathetic Obama administration decide to eliminate the right of doctors to refuse to perform abortions
I for one don’t give a fuck if every religious back institution in America chooses to shut down if faced with having to cease discriminating against women. I don’t care how many medical professionals and pharmacists get fired. They should be fired.
Of course, no article about religious leaders threatening to continue a war against a minority group would be complete without some fucked up logic:
Paprocki said he sees “increasingly militant and virulent threats to preborn life.” Another bishop, Jaime Soto of Sacramento, said, “There really is plenty of choice for women in this culture” and warned that legislative changes supported by Obama would create “a culture of coercion for women.”
Doing away with various things that are designed to force women into remaining pregnant against their wills is creating a “culture of coercion”? Yep. It makes sense to me. How about you?
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What about the right of that baby the woman is carrying? who will grow up to be a woman or a man with rights? I have two children neither of them where planned by me. I never even considered getting rid of them even if it meant to move back to my parents with my husband. It’s not a war against woman it’s a fight for children. The word fetus means small baby. BABY remember it’s a child not your body, she/he is just living there for a bit and is vulnerable. Woman should learn that choices has consequences.
No one, baby or adult, has the right to another person’s body for any reason. My own daughter could be in a position where she needs a kidney.
She would not be entitled to one of my kidneys. You can call me an ass for refusing to give her one, but you can’t force me to give her the kidney.
And that’s what you’re doing when you declare that women must be forced to remain pregnant. You’re forcing women to turn over control of their body to, in your view, another person.
As for suffering the consequences of one’s choices, I’ll assume that you also support denying medical care to people injured in car wrecks involving alcohol?
After all, they chose to drink and they chose to drive. Any fool should know that drinking and driving can and does cause wrecks. Why should those fools not be made to suffer the consequences of being foolish?
Choices. They have consequences, right?
Daizy – What? -What?- Women should learn that choices have consequences? Plenty of women perfectly understand that there are consequences to actions. Why in goodness gracious would you think otherwise?
And if you think it isn’t a war against women, think again. It is. The Catholic church is doing their very best to put women in their “place” as reproductive factories for the continuation of the species. But have you even looked around you? There are way too many humans on the planet and we don’t need any more!
By your logic, every single sperm and every single egg ever formed has to become a fetus or else it should be considered abortion. That’s not even possible – there are millions of sperm in a man and it would ruin every girl’s life if they had to do nothing but give birth – from the moment they are able to! What a horrible, wretched world you’ve got in your head. You’re not moving to improve humanity, you’re moving backwards in time to when women had no rights. Oh! And are the rights of a fetus more important that a woman’s who is already alive and in existence? How dare you put us so low! People like you sicken me!
If I sound angry, yes, I truly am! This has gone way too far and it’s pissing me off!
The Catholic Church preaching morals.
That’s quite one of the most hilarious contradictions I’ve read in a long time. From the organization that brought us the dark ages, indulged in ‘witch’ burning, encourages unprotected sex in AIDS-riven Africa, condemns extreme wealth at the same time as being one of the planets largest land owners…..and is also infested with pedophiles and has been exposed at actively covering up some of the worst child abuses. Hey Catholic bishops, give me a fucking break. Leave women alone!
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