Ellen Goodman......abortion agenda?

Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston did preside over the funeral Mass of Senator Ted Kennedy; it was his duty as a priest of Christ. He did not judge the Senator but as a compassionate Shepard to his flock presumed (hoped) the Senator died in the State of Grace and a friend of Christ. He presided at the Mass of Christian Burial.

As a Cardinal (a Prince of the Church) he had a duty to explain his position on the abortion issue; just like any news writer or politician has and he did. Ellen Goodman criticized him for a breach of etiquette for lobbying at a funeral; what a hypocritical position she placed herself in. I guess in Ms. Goodman's elitist, liberal view the sensitivities of a family trumps the truth of the millions of dismembered developing babies that have been aborted, not for medical reasons, but as a form of birth control....if abortion isn't the greatest sin against Ms. Goodman's sense of "civility" than I don't know what on earth could be.

Ms. Goodman talks about reproductive health care and pro-choice Democrats as though they are benign Constitutionally justified positions; they are not. No where in the Constitution of the United States is there a right to privacy which the Supreme Court that passed into law Roe V. Wade created and used to justify a women's right to abortion on demand. It was a right created by a liberal Supreme Court to justify their position and to satisfy a presumed social and political need at the time.

Reproductive health care and pro-choice are just code words for abortion on demand. I pray that Ms. Goodman will someday see deep within her soul the value of innocent human life and fight to protect it and not destroy it. A Culture of Death can only lead to darkness and more death; I don't find anything uplifting in that view.

If you want to share your views with Ms. Goodman her e-mail address as listed in the Northwest Herald is: ellengoodman1@me.com

Abortion...scars our very souls

Five Star General and President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, in one of his memoirs, said this about the death toll in World War II; "The loss of lives that might have otherwise been creatively lived scars the mind of the civilized world." Since Roe v. Wade more that a million lives have been lost to abortions each year in this country. The same can be said about the loss of these innocent lives also; what an egregious loss of human potential and creativity that might have changed the world for the better. I believe that the moral aspects of abortion notwithstanding, that our society has the civil responsibility to curb the rate of abortion on demand to an absolute minimum. Our society, has an intrinsic right to protect the lives of the unborn if for no other reason than it has the selfish right of society to protect these unborn potentially creative lives (self preservation). Who knows what the millions of lives that have already have been aborted and the millions that will be aborted might have or will discover or create for the betterment of our society if only they were allowed to exist.

I believe that the right of self preservation of our society trumps the so-called right to privacy that is found nowhere in the Constitution of the United States of America.

Showing his true colors?

In spite of the genetic gifts inherited from his white mother and black father, God given ones and learned ones through study at elite universities President Obama still doesn't "get it". His superb rhetorical skill and affability promote and promise a Utopian world, peace, prosperity, health and universal happiness through his leadership and change. I agree these goals are admirable ones and we all should strive to make them reality. So much for his goals and words: now lets talk and look at the reality of his actions...the "real stuff" of a person that emanates from his inner voice of conscience which is the product of his "formation" from an infant to President of the United States of America.

On Friday, January 23 he struck down the ban on using tax payer money to assist international (foreign) groups that perform abortions. I believe that the President truly wants to do many of the good things he promoted during his campaign. However, a Utopian society cannot be achieved by promoting and subsidizing a "culture of death"; one that says it wants to make people free in the truest sense of the word but bases the achievement of that goal on the amoral assumption that the taking of life, pre-born, during birth, in diseased states, or in the elderly is warranted because it will be balanced by the good it will supposedly achieve for the many. This proposition has been used in the past and has only brought more death, misery and the collapse of nations and civilizations. To promote this course of action is to promote our eventual extinction from the face of the planet. The more we cheapen life the more its intrinsic value decreases...eventually to the point of being worthless.