Leftists have dropped their sheep’s clothing. No more “safe, legal, and rare” sloganeering. Instead, we’re getting infanticide cheering. Once a population has had its collective conscience seared from decades of “socially constructed” propaganda, there remains no need for cloaks of deceit. “Abortion is back, baby,” scream leftist women. But maybe “bloodletting,” the medieval practice of drawing blood from patients to cure illness, is a better term than the clinical “abortion.” Since abortion advocates view human fetuses and full-term, de facto babies as parasites that harm their maternal “hosts,” maybe “bloodletters” is a better term for feticide fanatics.
What compounds the horror of this pestilent practice is that we have lawmakers who claim to be Christians eagerly promoting it. There are about 70 pro-feticide Congress-folx who identify as Catholic, and there are about 113 pro-feticide Congress-folx who identify as Protestant or Greek/Eastern Orthodox. All, of course, are Democrats.
What presumptuousness for any Christian to claim to believe that “For by [God] all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible … all things were created through him and for him,” and then claim that women have a right to hire people to kill the innocent humans God created. And what galling presumptuousness for any Christian to claim that women have a right to hire people to kill innocent humans because those tiny humans are imperfect, or inconvenient, or because their biological fathers are criminals.
And yet self-identifying Catholics have repeatedly signed a “Statement of Principles” spawned and co-authored by the tatted, purple-haired, octogenarian Rosa DeLauro, which reads,
[A]s Catholic Democrats serving in the House of Representatives, we are proud that we are part of the faithful pro-choice Catholic majority. … Our faith unfailingly promotes the common good, prioritizes the dignity of every human being, and highlights the need to provide a collective safety net to our most vulnerable.
For the heretical signatories, “every human being” excludes human beings conceived and growing in their mothers’ wombs. To be clear, the product of conception between two humans—one man and one woman—is inarguably a human. That’s science.
DeLauro et al. continue, emphasizing that their motivation to maintain in law legal permission to slaughter innocent human lives emerges from their religious faith:
We are committed to making real the basic principles at the heart of Catholic social teaching: helping the poor, disadvantaged, and the oppressed; [and] protecting the least among us.
In the heartless dystopia socially constructed by these Catholic heretics, already-conceived, still-developing humans are excluded from the “least among us.” There can be no more unjustly marginalized group than helpless humans dismissed as not even worthy of being called “least.”
With stunning dishonesty, DeLauro and her fellow travelers grotesquely abuse Catholic teaching:
The Catechism of the Catholic Church plainly states that “A human being must always obey the certain judgment of his [or her] conscience. If he [or she] were deliberately to act against it, he [or she] would condemn himself [or herself].”
The heretics omitted the very next statements in the Catechism:
Yet it can happen that moral conscience remains in ignorance and makes erroneous judgments about acts to be performed or already committed.
This ignorance can often be imputed to personal responsibility. This is the case when a man “takes little trouble to find out what is true and good, or when conscience is by degrees almost blinded through the habit of committing sin.” In such cases, the person is culpable for the evil he commits.
Ignorance of Christ and his Gospel, bad example given by others, enslavement to one’s passions, assertion of a mistaken notion of autonomy of conscience, rejection of the Church’s authority and her teaching, lack of conversion and of charity: these can be at the source of errors of judgment in moral conduct.
In Catholicism, as in many Protestant and Orthodox traditions, conscience is not some intellectually and morally untethered aggregate of subjective feelings. It is informed by and tethered to Scripture.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops responded to the heretics:
Members of Congress who recently invoked teachings of the Catholic faith itself as justifying abortion or supporting a supposed right to abortion grievously distort the faith. It is wrong and incoherent to claim that the taking of innocent human life at its most vulnerable stage can ever be consistent with the values of supporting the dignity and wellbeing of those in need. ‘Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception,’ including through the civil law [Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2270, 2273].
[C]onscience is not a license to commit evil and take innocent lives. Conscience cannot and does not justify the act or support of abortion. In fact, conscience ‘must be informed and moral judgment enlightened’ with the Word of God in faith and prayer, and ‘guided by the authoritative teaching of the Church’ [CCC 1783, 1785].
Tragically, it’s not just Catholics who are exploiting Christianity for the pernicious purpose of murdering humans in their mothers’ wombs. Protestants do it as well, and there is no clearer embodiment of this evil phenomenon than Senator-elect from Texas James Talarico who cites his Christian faith as boldly and frequently as a traveling tent-revivalist.
Just take a gander at his victory speech in which he refers to David and Goliath (you can guess who Talarico fancies himself), to biblical commandments to love God and one’s neighbor, and to his faith-based belief that “love is revolutionary.” He concluded by saying,
2,000 years ago, when the people at the top hurt his neighbors, that barefoot rabbi didn’t stay in his room and pray. He walked into the seat of power, and he flipped over the tables of injustice. As this movement heads to the seat of power, as we head to the United States Senate, we know what this moment requires of us. Texas, it’s time to start flipping tables.
Talarico, who supports the medical abuse of gender dysphoric minors, the unjust sexual integration of private spaces and sports, and the slaughter of innocent humans, grossly abused the biblical story of Jesus overturning the tables of the moneychangers.
Jesus didn’t walk into the seat of government to flip over tables of injustices committed by lawmakers. He walked into a house of worship angry that religious leaders had corrupted and desecrated the holy place intended for the sole purpose of worshiping God.
God’s hatred of corruption and desecration extends to the corruption and desecration of his holy Word as well. Talarico twists Scripture again in his quest to rationalize the legal killing of the unborn as he did when discussing the Annunciation on a podcast.
He used the Annunciation to suggest that the right of preborn humans to be protected from extermination is subordinate to “consent.” Weird seminarian Talarico girly-mansplained to Joe Rogan,
[B]efore God comes over Mary and we have the Incarnation, God asks for Mary’s consent. … That is an affirmation in one of our most central stories that creation has to be done with consent. You cannot force someone to create.
Creation is one of the most sacred acts that we engage in as human beings. But that has to be done with consent. It has to be done with freedom. And to me that is absolutely consistent with the ministry and life and death of Jesus.
As apologist Trent Horn explains,
Creation requires consent, but abortion isn’t the decision to “not create.” Abortion is the decision to destroy what is already created. To make an analogy, a pilot must consent before he decides to fly you in a private plane. But once he does that, he can’t revoke consent or abort the flight by parachuting out midway through the trip, leaving the passengers to crash.
Likewise, whenever a child has come into existence, he must be protected.
Christian conservatives should take note and remember that leftists hate biblically informed political views only when those views are conservative.