Comments for The Pro-Life Democrats – Fading, Fading, Gone at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 9 out of 9 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:50:54 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-pro-life-democrats-fading-fading-gone.html#comment-4313 Pope John Paul II lamented our return to a barbarism he had hoped had been left behind forever in refering to abortion. How can this be equivocated? How are the leaders who support aborton any less barbaric than the most tyrannical individuals in human history? - Just Wondering Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:33:35 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-pro-life-democrats-fading-fading-gone.html#comment-4312 Thank you, Dr. Arkes. It all began with the massive dissent against Humanae Vitae in 1968. Roe v. Wade would not have occurred in 1973 without this dissent. What was the response of Paul VI?-freshets of tears! He never wrote another encyclical, dying in 1978. You want to write about Pro-Life Democrats being 3 degrees north of useless? Write about the Church which has been focusing on Social Justice and ICEL translations ad nauseam for fifty years. It should padlock its doors! - William H. Phelan Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:32:28 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-pro-life-democrats-fading-fading-gone.html#comment-4311 Cardinal George yesterday: “Notwithstanding the denials and explanations of its supporters, and unlike the bill approved by the House of Representatives in November, the Senate bill deliberately excludes the language of the Hyde amendment. It expands federal funding and the role of the federal government in the provision of abortion procedures.” - Brad Miner Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:21:58 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-pro-life-democrats-fading-fading-gone.html#comment-4308 Careful reading of the bill belies any notion that federal money would be used to fund abortion. Stupak's pro-life stance is admirable, but the issue has been oversimplified by casting this as a pro-life vs. pro-choice debate, a media construction that fails to grasp subtleties as pointed out by the Catholic Health Assn. - Joseph Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:04:53 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-pro-life-democrats-fading-fading-gone.html#comment-4310 The reason that readers get so mad at you Professor Arkes, is because you're right; and not just right about something stupid and pointless, but right about the most important issue of our time. Catholics who are living the hypocrisy of supporting just about any democrat/leftist/"liberal" are going to seethe in anger at someone like you who so clearly spells out the brokenness and irrationality of a Christian supporting the world's holocaust of the unborn. - Jacob Ford Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:03:54 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-pro-life-democrats-fading-fading-gone.html#comment-4309 The Republican party is not pro-life either. The main reason for that is their support for a policy denying an increase in welfare payments to unmarried welfare mothers who have more children while on welfare (the family cap). Such a policy implicitly tells welfare mothers to abort their babies instead of allowing them to be born, and is therefore pro-abortion. On the other hand, working families have dependency exemptions and child tax credits to help them with raising children. - blue8064 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:03:22 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-pro-life-democrats-fading-fading-gone.html#comment-4307 If I were American, I would see no other way, however unpleasant, than to vote for the GOP until a Republican President names a 5th anti-Roe v. Wade Supreme Court Justice. Then, I would pray that the Democratic Party stop putting abortion and sexual license at the top of its political platform. - Thibaud Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:02:40 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-pro-life-democrats-fading-fading-gone.html#comment-4306 Prof. Arkes: Another enlightening, discomforting, column. Let's (literally) pray that Rep. Stupak and enough of his pro-life Dem colleagues stand strong for life. This is a defining moment in America's history. Let's not give up the good fight, whether in the public square or in the conversion of our own hearts. - Gary Seaton Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:02:17 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-pro-life-democrats-fading-fading-gone.html#comment-4305 To the point and so true! It is well recognized, like it or not, that the Democratic party is a pro abortion party. Abortion rights are integral to its existence. Those who stay with that party and espouse a pro life philosophy must feel very lonely, and at most tolerated. I think they dupe themselves into trying to find a reason for their existence in some " seamless garment " type of reasoning. If one can tell a tree by its fruit, then you can taste and see that the fruit is rotten! - Willie Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:01:58 +0100