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Now is NOT the time to be silent
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Posted by: angelofthelord
A Supreme Court vacancy is imminent, and the battle regarding who will fill
that vacancy will be a big one. Pro-abortion forces in the Senate, and
throughout the land, having lost the Congress and the White House, will do
everything possible to hold on to the Courts.
You and I cannot vote for Supreme Court Justices. But we can make it clear
to our Senators and through letters to the editor that we object to efforts
to keep pro-life judges off the courts. Please be ready to speak out as soon
as a vacancy occurs.
Contact your representatives & Senators in Washington DC.
The commitment to defend the weakest and most vulnerable human beings does not arise from a political party or platform, nor from any kind of
personal or communal agenda.
Nor does it arise from bishops, priests, or pastors. Rather, it arises from
our humanity itself, fashioned as it is by the hand of God. God, who is life, writes upon our hearts its value, and He bestows on us both the gift of life
and the privilege and duty to defend it.
Nobody needs any kind of permission to defend life, nor can anyone excuse
himself from that duty. Nobody has a monopoly on the defense of life, nor is
the pro-life task a means to an end. Defending life is an end in itself, and
has in itself all the justification it ever needs.
The two major political parties in America, right now, take opposite views
of the right to life. The Democratic Party platform (2004) reads, "Because
we believe in the privacy and equality of women, we stand proudly for a
woman's right to choose, consistent with Roe v. Wade, and regardless of
her ability to pay." The Republican Party platform (2004)
reads, "We must keep our pledge to the first guarantee of the Declaration of
Independence. That is why we say the unborn child has a fundamental
individual right to life which cannot be infringed. We support a human life
amendment to the Constitution, and we endorse legislation to make it clear
that the 14th Amendment's protections apply to unborn children. We oppose
using public revenues for abortion and will not fund organizations which advocate it."
There are, nonetheless, pro-life and pro-abortion members of both parties,
including legislators on the state and federal level.
Recently, pro-life Democratic members of Congress held a press
conference led by Democrats for Life and held it at the headquarters of the
Democratic National Committee in Washington. The topic was the "95-10"
Initiative, which contains numerous legislative proposals aimed at reducing
the numbers of abortion by 95% in the next ten years.
There are many proposals in this package, like women's right-to-know
provisions, funding for promotion of alternatives to abortion, strengthening
of adoption practices, and more. These are key goals for all of us to pursue.
The precise way in which these and other proposals in 95-10 should be
written into law will, of course, need to be carefully
debated and refined. For example, we always have to avoid the trap of
thinking that access to contraception is a solution to the abortion problem.
The opposite, in fact, is true.
And in the end, we cannot be content to reduce the numbers of abortions. We have to acknowledge that laws permitting even a single abortion
undermine the very fabric of our freedom and our republic. Abortion is an act
of violence that no nation has the right to
permit. But when anyone in our great nation, Democrat or Republican, wants
to advance the Culture of Life to any degree, that deserves an "Amen!" from
us all.
Posted by: Remnant7
For people interested in knowing about some websites to help you get up to speed on the most pressing issues of the day that we, as Christians, should be involved in, here's a few:
Eagleforum dot com (give them your email address for Congressional alerts, Court watch alerts, etc.)
ACLJ (click on the "links" tab for add'l helpful and informative links) - Christian alternative to the liberal ACLU group.
Townhall dot com (They have a "contact congress" link, columnists link where you can click on "Phyllis Schafly" for excellent commentaries of today's issues that you won't hear on the regular news, but is very straight forward and full of God's truth!)
We do all need to be involved contacting our Senators and representatives at all levels, most correspondence can be done on-line. Also, just a few searches and it's easy to find the information that will help you make informed decisions and tell these representatives what you, the american public, think.
Well, that's my input 
Posted by: son of God
we singed our pretition to d.c and in pray for it amen 
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