What
an abomination FOCA is! Catholics
can never be justified in electing
a President whose first promised
act is to sign the FOCA. The
door is already wide open to
abortion. FOCA would open the
floodgates.
Reject
abortion. Reject those who support
abortion.
God
bless.
frank
Bishop:
Freedom of Choice Act Unjustifiable
Says Law Will Allow Full Access
to Abortion
KANSAS
CITY, Missouri, OCT. 28, 2008
(Zenit.org).- A U.S. bishop
says people
of good will should question
a candidate's determination
to reduce abortions when he
also promises to immediately
sign upon taking office the
Freedom of Choice Act.
Bishop
Robert Finn of Kansas City-St.
Joseph said this in a statement
last week that aimed to educate
voters about a bill the next
U.S. president might have the
chance to sign into law or veto.
The
bishop explained: "The
Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA),
was first introduced in November
of 1989. […] The more
recent wording of FOCA, introduced
last year, is as follows: A
government may not: (1) deny
or interfere with a woman's
right to choose -- (A) to bear
a child; (B) to terminate a
pregnancy prior to viability;
or (C) to terminate a pregnancy
after viability where termination
is necessary to protect the
life or health of the woman;
or (2) discriminate against
the exercise of the rights set
forth in paragraph (1) in the
regulation or provision of benefits,
facilities, services, or information."
Bishop
Finn explained that this act
applies to "every federal,
state, and local statute, ordinance,
regulation, administrative order,
decision, penalty, practice,
or other action enacted, adopted,
or implemented before or after
the date of enactment of this
act."
It
would thus "make null and
void every current restriction
on abortion in all jurisdictions,"
he said.
Citing
an article from the Family Research
Council, the bishop noted that
among the laws FOCA would automatically
overturn are 44 states' laws
concerning parental involvement;
40 states' laws on restricting
later-term abortions; and 46
states' conscience protection
laws for individual health care
providers; as well as 38 states'
bans on partial-birth abortions.
Backward
Bishop
Finn then mentioned a group
"calling itself Catholics
in Alliance for the Common Good,
which says that electing candidates
who have permissive or clearly
pro-choice stances in support
of abortion, but are determined
to provide more assistance to
poor and vulnerable women and
families, would actually help
to reduce abortions in the United
States."
"This
group," he said, "I
believe has its priorities backward."
"It
seems unlikely," Bishop
Finn contended, "that candidates
advocating full access to abortion
-- which attacks the most vulnerable
poor, the unborn -- will at
the same time have a consistent
or principle-based plan for
helping other poor people. […]
When a candidate pledges to
provide 'comprehensive sex education'
to school children and promises
to promote -- or to 'sign immediately
upon taking office' -- the Freedom
of Choice Act, Catholics and
all people of good will have
cause to question the sincerity
of the candidate's determination
to reduce abortions."
Referring
to a pastoral letter he wrote
with Archbishop Joseph Naumann
of Kansas City, Kansas, Bishop
Finn affirmed: "[W]e
can never vote for a candidate
because of his permissive stand
on abortion.
At the same time, if we are
inclined to vote for someone
despite their pro-abortion stance,
it seems we are morally obliged
to establish a proportionate
reason sufficient to justify
the destruction of 45 million
human persons through abortion.
"If
we learn that our 'candidate
of choice' further pledges --
through an instrument such as
FOCA -- to eliminate all existing
limitations against abortion,
it is that much more doubtful
whether voting for him or her
can ever be morally justified
under any circumstance."
"For
to me life is Christ, and death
is gain." (Phil 1:21)