Enough! No Protection of Life, No Health Care Plan

Public outcry from all Catholics - bishops, priests, deacons, religious and laity - should be deafening. Abortion is not Health Care!

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Catholic Online) - Enough is enough! Enough was actually enough a long time ago, but there can't be any doubt all lines have been crossed. It is high time to draw a new line in the sand - a line that Catholics will never again cross. It is my position that Catholics who supported Obama made a grave mistake and the consequences may be catastrophic. It benefits no one to tread lightly here for fear of hurting people's feelings - the truth is plainly obvious. President Obama simply could not have gotten to the White House without the Catholic vote. He skillfully exploited some Catholics to his great advantage. It's time for folks to open their eyes to the bitter reality and make sure this never happens again.

Let's review, shall we?

As an Illinois state senator, he voted against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, intended to protect babies who survived their attempted murder by abortion. He considers partial-birth infanticide to be a legitimate medical procedure.

At a Planned Parenthood fundraising event while campaigning for the Presidency, he said:
"The first thing I'd do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. That's the first thing I'd do."

When asked by Pastor Rick Warren during the Presidential campaign when human life begins, he answered, "That's above my pay grade."

While relating the issue to his own daughters, he said that if they made a mistake, he "wouldn't want them punished with a baby." He later tried to explain what he really meant by the remark in the hopes of soothing over the understandable outcry from pro-Life people.

On his third day in office he repealed the Mexico City policy and start sending money to other countries to help fund their abortions. The Democrat-controlled Congress is now attempting to pass an amendment that would codify Obama's Executive Order and thereby prevent future presidents from ever reenacting the Mexico City policy.

In March, he lifted restrictions on federal funding of always deadly embryonic stem cell research.

He appointed Kathleen Sebelius to the Health and Human Services Department. Another Catholic who consistently protects abortion "rights". She not only dissents from her Churches' teaching but feeds the efforts to persuade confused Catholics that holding such a position is somehow "acceptable" when it simply is not. Under any Health Care Reform Plan she will have the job of "micromanaging" and deciding which health benefits are covered and which are not.

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He rescinded an important conscience protection clause designed to protect doctors and medical providers from being forced to perform or participate in abortions against their will.

Among his many unelected "Czars" (welcome to the new America), he has appointed a Science and Technology Czar with frightening and dangerous views on population control and "globalization." Dr. John Holdren wrote in his book, Ecoscience, published in 1977: "A program of sterilizing women after their 2nd or 3rd child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men... The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional possibilities for coercive fertility control. The capsule could be implanted at puberty and might be removable, with official permission, for a limited number of births." (p. 786-7)

Then there's Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, one of the chief architects of Obamacare, now serving as White House health care policy adviser. Emanuel has some very disturbing views about rationing medical care to the chronically ill, the elderly, those with special needs, and the disabled. He refers to a baby with any sort of serious genetic health condition as a "defective newborn." He seems to have argued in the past that these folks are not useful to society, represent a significant waste of money and resources, and further that decisions must be made to reduce the negative impact such people have on the health care system. In stating his belief that health care should be guaranteed as "basic" for those who are "healthy" ( have practical reasoning skills and are full and active participants in society) he also said that "services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed." (Hastings Center Report, 1996) Gee, that's a tough break for the children with autism or Downs.

Now, under what is being presented as Health Care Reform, President Obama is trying to pass FOCA piece by piece by hiding it. The fact is Planned Parenthood will be one of the largest recipients of federal dollars under this Health Care Reform Plan. The same Planned Parenthood founded by Margaret Sanger, whose eugenics beliefs are well documented, whose desire to control and reduce the black population through abortion was openly professed. The same PP that today is under investigation in several states for fraud and failing to report the sexual abuse of very young girls.

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President Obama insists he will defend the right to choose... as long as we all choose to expand access to abortion and fund it.

Does any of this sound like something Catholics should support? I say the answer is no, plain and simple. Yet, astonishingly, many still do. President Obama continues to enjoy the comfort and aid of many people and organizations bearing the name Catholic. Shame on them! How long shall we continue to bear this disgrace?

He highlights his kinship with Catholics in the area of "social justice" while denying the very foundation of all Catholic Social Justice - the dignity of every human person. He surrounds himself with Catholics who openly defy their Church on the issue of the dignity of every human person; he admits to the graduating class of a Catholic University that the two sides of the abortion debate are "irreconcilable", has the audacity to tell Pope Benedict XVI that he will work to reduce abortion and then proceeds to attempt to ram government-funded-abortion-coverage health care reform through Congress by initially pressing for a vote before anyone could even read the bill, let alone voice an objection. That's not leadership - that's bullying. Fortunately, it did not work. This is proving to be a long, hot August.

The public outcry from all Catholics - bishops, priests, deacons, religious and laity - should be deafening. Abortion is not Health Care! We cannot be silent. We cannot be deceived any longer. I for one am tired of this President making a mockery of the foundation of Catholic Social Justice teaching and I'm out of patience for those Catholics who make it so easy for him. It's time for a new Catholic Action. Now. Today. Enough is Enough! No Protection of Life, No Health Care Plan.

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Jennifer Hartline is a Catholic Army wife and stay-at-home mother of three precious kids who writes frequently on topics of Catholic faith and daily living. She is a contributing writer for Catholic Online.

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