Religion in the News: [Abortion] Feminists pray to Mary for legal abortion

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MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH Feminists pray to Mary for legal abortion Asking that it be established throughout Latin America

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: July 3, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

Despite clear Catholic teaching to the contrary, U.S. abortion advocates in Latin America have distributed a prayer card asking the Virgin Mary to intercede to establish abortion on demand throughout the region.

Many participants at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean meeting in Puerto Rico were stunned Monday when they received a prayer card with the words, "The love of God and of Mary of Guadalupe is greater. ... For women's lives, safe and legal abortion," reports the Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute.

The words are superimposed over an image of the Virgin Mary. The back of the card says, "Dear Mary of Guadalupe, we thank you because your love is greater, because you listen to us without judging, because you know our heart and you respect the intimacy of our decisions."

The cards were distributed by the American group Catholics for a Free Choice and its Latin American counterpart, Catolicas por el Derecho a Decidir.

One observer told the Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute, "How insulting it is that CFFC, a rich American pro-abortion group, would attempt to use the Latin American people's strong devotion to the Virgin Mary to impose their abortion agenda here."

At a press conference, CFFC released polling data that purports to show Latin American Catholics overwhelmingly accept a broad reproductive rights agenda.

According to the CFFC press release, "Before Catholics were more afraid of what the bishops and the church were saying -- now they are deciding for themselves. What we see is a more mature society and a more democratic one in which the most important guide is the individual conscience, not the institution of the church. What we also see is how isolated the bishops are from society and from faithful Catholics."

Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute, however, points out the very polling data seems to tell a different story.

For instance, the report admits, "Catholics are divided on the question of whether one can have an abortion or support someone who does and continue to be a 'good Catholic.'"

CFFC claims "a majority of Catholics in all three countries [Bolivia, Colombia and Mexico] believe abortion should be permitted in some or all cases."

But the report also states, "Only a small number of Catholics in the three countries say that public health entities should be required to provide abortions to those who ask for them."

The data also show the overwhelming majority of respondents, in some cases more than 90 percent, do not believe abortion is justified "when the woman chooses," "because of a lack of economic resources," "when a contraceptive method has failed," or "when a woman does not feel capable of taking care of a child at that moment."

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-- David Ortiz (cyberpunk1986@hotmail.com), July 03, 2004

Answers

Now I know there's no level abortion advocates won't stoop to for their cause. How very satanic.

-- Andy S ("aszmere@earthlink.net"), July 03, 2004.

Wel this is sicker than usual...

-- ZAROVE (ZAROFF3@JUNO.COM), July 03, 2004.

Yes, that is sad..

-- David Ortiz (cyberpunk1986@hotmail.com), July 05, 2004.

When my mom hears about this, she'll hit the ceiling!!! (She HATES the radical feminists and their whacked out agendas.)

-- Garret Ford (Parallax281457689@Yahoo.com), July 07, 2004.

Instead of mothers hating and hitting the ceiling, perhaps you should ask why pro-choice has become so prevalent?

Understanding and researching the situation, instead of judging, should surely provide solutions.

"radical feminists" are not the root of the problem, they are a by- product of the lack of human rights for women.

-- Tiffany Griffin (griffin_tiff@hotmail.com), July 07, 2004.



Please deliniate which "rights" women want that they do not currently have.

-- jake (j@k.e), July 07, 2004.

Instead of mothers hating and hitting the ceiling, perhaps you should ask why pro-choice has become so prevalent?

{Its not that prevailent. Over 50% of te populace actually opposes it.Those whoa re for it usuaally support it as a byprodict of the reponcibility free society we have created where peopel feel they shodl not be obligated for their actions or to others.}-Zarove

Understanding and researching the situation, instead of judging, should surely provide solutions.

{I have. I am not agaisnt Womens rights, as you imply below, I am opposed to Murder.}-Zarove

"radical feminists" are not the root of the problem, they are a by- product of the lack of human rights for women.

{No, they aren't. Radical Feminists arived on the scene after women won all the rights of men. They now want to reverse the social injustice, rendering Men as Second Clas citesens and makign women superior, which is equelly qrong. They arr essentially sfferign an imbalenced need for pwoer and controel and use their gender issues as a mean to unify and glavinise the movement and add focus. Women have all the same rights as men these days.}-Zarove

-- ZAROVE (ZAROFF3@JUNO.COM), July 07, 2004.


I don't understand. Why do they pray to Mary? Isn't that like praying to George Washington or any other deceased person?

-- Henry (HenryJ525@dodgeit.com), July 09, 2004.

Hnery, I think yo miss the poin of this thread...Adn we hav discussed the whoel prayers to Mary thign before...

-- ZAROVE (ZAROFF3@JUNO.COM), July 09, 2004.

I understand the point of the thread. What they are doing is as ludicrous as me praying to God to kill my neighbor.

Is the discussion about my question still on these boards somewhere?

-- Henry (HenryJ525@dodgeit.com), July 09, 2004.



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