Despite its current legal status, or the manifold reasons for it cause, abortion is an experience of human death. Each and every year worldwide Tens of Millions of innocent children, “innocent persons”, are denied their right to life on earth. In our country alone nearly 50 million children have succumbed under the weight of such unjust laws since 1973.
As inexplicable as it may seem, some Catholics are prepared to support pro-abortion Senator Barack Obama and the Democratic Party this election cycle. The reasoning goes, they’ve found ‘proportionate reasons’ that make it possible to override their good conscience that justifies a vote for a candidate who supports legalized abortion when there’s a choice of another candidate(s) who does not support such intrinsically evil policies.
But can a Catholic in good conscience prefer a candidate’s positions on peace, the economy, health care or immigration etc. to the point of overriding that candidate’s support for legalized abortion? How is it possible that these ‘proportionate reasons’ overcome 50 million children killed in America these past 35 years?
The simple answer is they don’t.
For a Catholic with full command and understanding of the gift of his or her faith means for them to have experiential spiritual knowledge of the object of their faith. Through the action of the Holy Spirit in baptism and the sacraments, especially the Holy Eucharist, a certain spiritual understanding has occurred which reveals within our hearts and souls confirmation of the new reality found present in the Life of Christ; put simply, by the Spirit, which the world does not know as yet, we are aware of where we’ve come from and towards where we are journeying; herein is the revelation that everything about our faith revolves about the Author of Creation—the Author of Life.
If, by the grace of the Holy Spirit, there were a clear understanding of the origin and destiny of men’s lives that fell upon them and America like a blanket of dew in the next few moments, by virtue of the power and action of such spiritual love hearts would be converted and healed, abortion mills would be shuttered, and the next day the abortion industry would’ve collapsed—because the same spirit of love who is sent to heal and forgive us also convinces us of sin--however horrible and grave. America would have heard the words of the One who commands that men should not kill—in any manifestation.
Public policy discussion during elections speaks of our personal concern on issues that affect our communities, our nation, and our people. But the threatened unborn are persons of our communities, of our nation, and people too; albeit a people without voice. And this is where Barack Obama fails as a proclaimed Christian—either through ignorance, as he himself suggested at the Saddleback Debate, or through political expediency, he denies the created reality of life so rooted in the Christian faith he professes. So much so, that he is willing to continue this genocidal war on children both within and outside the womb of life…
Before dear Catholics you cast your vote for Obama and America’s future, as you yourself pass through this world toward life, you must know:
1. Barack Obama has promised to sign The Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA). FOCA is a radical bill. It creates a “fundamental right” to abortion throughout the nine months of pregnancy. No governmental body at any level would be able to “deny or interfere with” this right, or to “discriminate” against the exercise of this right “in the regulation or provision of benefits, facilities, services, or information.” For the first time, abortion would become an entitlement the government must condone and promote.
2. Barack Obama is so entrenched in the culture of death at odds with the culture of life that as a state senator he failed three times to stand up for the rights of infants born alive during an abortion in voting against (or present) on the Born Alive Infants Protection Act.
3. The experience of human death by abortion is not limited to the victim alone, but extends to the mother and the father as well. A vote for Obama will further solidify the already tragic, yet, often unspoken reality of mental health effects caused by abortion within relationships and families. The best evidence indicates that a minimum of 10-30% of women who undergo an abortion report pronounced and/or prolonged psychological difficulties attributable to the abortion. These adverse psychological outcomes include guilt, anxiety, depression, sleep disturbance, relationship problems, substance abuse, symptoms of posttraumatic stress, and increased risk of suicide. Male responses to a partner’s abortion include grief, guilt, depression, anxiety, feelings of repressed emotions, helplessness/voicelessness/powerlessness, posttraumatic stress, anger and relationship problems (Coyle, 2007).
As inexplicable as it may seem, some Catholics are prepared to support pro-abortion Senator Barack Obama and the Democratic Party this election cycle. The reasoning goes, they’ve found ‘proportionate reasons’ that make it possible to override their good conscience that justifies a vote for a candidate who supports legalized abortion when there’s a choice of another candidate(s) who does not support such intrinsically evil policies.
But can a Catholic in good conscience prefer a candidate’s positions on peace, the economy, health care or immigration etc. to the point of overriding that candidate’s support for legalized abortion? How is it possible that these ‘proportionate reasons’ overcome 50 million children killed in America these past 35 years?
The simple answer is they don’t.
For a Catholic with full command and understanding of the gift of his or her faith means for them to have experiential spiritual knowledge of the object of their faith. Through the action of the Holy Spirit in baptism and the sacraments, especially the Holy Eucharist, a certain spiritual understanding has occurred which reveals within our hearts and souls confirmation of the new reality found present in the Life of Christ; put simply, by the Spirit, which the world does not know as yet, we are aware of where we’ve come from and towards where we are journeying; herein is the revelation that everything about our faith revolves about the Author of Creation—the Author of Life.
If, by the grace of the Holy Spirit, there were a clear understanding of the origin and destiny of men’s lives that fell upon them and America like a blanket of dew in the next few moments, by virtue of the power and action of such spiritual love hearts would be converted and healed, abortion mills would be shuttered, and the next day the abortion industry would’ve collapsed—because the same spirit of love who is sent to heal and forgive us also convinces us of sin--however horrible and grave. America would have heard the words of the One who commands that men should not kill—in any manifestation.
Public policy discussion during elections speaks of our personal concern on issues that affect our communities, our nation, and our people. But the threatened unborn are persons of our communities, of our nation, and people too; albeit a people without voice. And this is where Barack Obama fails as a proclaimed Christian—either through ignorance, as he himself suggested at the Saddleback Debate, or through political expediency, he denies the created reality of life so rooted in the Christian faith he professes. So much so, that he is willing to continue this genocidal war on children both within and outside the womb of life…
Before dear Catholics you cast your vote for Obama and America’s future, as you yourself pass through this world toward life, you must know:
1. Barack Obama has promised to sign The Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA). FOCA is a radical bill. It creates a “fundamental right” to abortion throughout the nine months of pregnancy. No governmental body at any level would be able to “deny or interfere with” this right, or to “discriminate” against the exercise of this right “in the regulation or provision of benefits, facilities, services, or information.” For the first time, abortion would become an entitlement the government must condone and promote.
2. Barack Obama is so entrenched in the culture of death at odds with the culture of life that as a state senator he failed three times to stand up for the rights of infants born alive during an abortion in voting against (or present) on the Born Alive Infants Protection Act.
3. The experience of human death by abortion is not limited to the victim alone, but extends to the mother and the father as well. A vote for Obama will further solidify the already tragic, yet, often unspoken reality of mental health effects caused by abortion within relationships and families. The best evidence indicates that a minimum of 10-30% of women who undergo an abortion report pronounced and/or prolonged psychological difficulties attributable to the abortion. These adverse psychological outcomes include guilt, anxiety, depression, sleep disturbance, relationship problems, substance abuse, symptoms of posttraumatic stress, and increased risk of suicide. Male responses to a partner’s abortion include grief, guilt, depression, anxiety, feelings of repressed emotions, helplessness/voicelessness/powerlessness, posttraumatic stress, anger and relationship problems (Coyle, 2007).
4. It is time to seek healing for ourselves and our nation from the trauma of abortion.
In 1930 Pope Pious wrote:
“Those who hold the reins of government should not forget that it is the duty of public authority by appropriate laws and sanctions to defend the lives of the innocent, and this all the more so since those whose lives are endangered and assailed cannot defend themselves. Among whom we must mention in the first place infants hidden in the mother's womb. And if the public magistrates not only do not defend them, but by their laws and ordinances betray them to death at the hands of doctors or of others, let them remember that God is the Judge and Avenger of innocent blood which cries from earth to Heaven.”
It is my hope that your Catholic vote will truly reflect the God who is both perfectly just and perfectly merciful, for once again he has placed before our freedoms the choice of life or death. Let us choose life, a non-negotiable truth of faith.
James Mary Evans
County Chair/Catholics for McCain/ Josephine County
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