By DEXTER DUGGAN
With all of the Democratic Party’s presidential candidates for 2020 agreeing on radical pro-abortion extremism that most Americans reject, even though the Dem contenders need majority voter support, what’s around the corner if Democrats retake national power next year while an adoring media would glow with glee over new political strength for the Culture of Death?
“Diversity” in the Democratic Party’s presidential race means a large group of variegated candidates all saying the same thing.
“I don’t think there is room in our party for a Democratic candidate who does not support women’s full reproductive freedom,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand was quoted by the Des Moines Register, which posted:
“During a meeting with the Register’s editorial board on Monday (June 10), the New York senator said all of the Democratic presidential candidates need to support repealing the Hyde Amendment, a law that blocks federal funding for abortion with few exceptions.”
Gillibrand used standard Dem avoidance of reality regarding massive permissive abortion, calling it such good things as a human right, and insisting that this vital blessing was opposed simply by unacceptably assertive religious views.
The Des Moines newspaper quoted her ramblings: “I don’t think it’s appropriate for Democrats who claim we are the party of women to impose religious views on other people. I just don’t think it’s appropriate.”
Meanwhile, pro-life Republican President Donald Trump on June 18 formally announced his bid for a second term to a packed arena of enthusiastic supporters in Orlando, plus tens of thousands more people watching huge screens outside. Trump included a strong pro-life message.
LifeNews.com reported on June 19 that Trump said, in part: “Virtually every top Democrat also now supports taxpayer-funded abortion right up to the moment of birth — ripping babies straight from the mothers’ womb. Leading Democrats have even opposed measures to prevent the execution of children after birth. You saw that in Virginia.”
Just after Trump’s campaign kickoff, pundit Glenn Beck told his radio audience that although photos show both Barack Obama in 2008 and Trump in 2016 drew large, enthusiastic crowds for their first successful presidential campaigns, crowds for the disappointing Obama diminished for his re-election race in 2012, but Trump’s had not.
Dem Party leaders, continually surrendering to pro-abortion extremists, should serve as a warning to everyone else of what will be done to pro-lifers and other traditionalists if Dems were to regain full national power after a smirking dominant media skewed 2020 campaign coverage.
If the Senate and White House were unified with bad Catholic Nancy Pelosi’s House chamber while their extremism was shielded by an adoring media, laws soon would be rolling out to punish and marginalize the many millions of Americans opposed to the Dem Culture of Death.
Gillibrand’s embarrassing comments were spared from gaining much attention by agenda-setting dominant media.
But in Gillibrand’s upside-down world, promoting unlimited abortion shows “moral clarity,” while opposing it renders a person out of order.
The conservative Washington Free Beacon site quoted her on June 11: “I think there’s some issues that have such moral clarity that we have as a society decided that the other side is not acceptable. . . . Asking someone to appoint someone who takes away basic human rights of any group of people in America — I don’t think that those are political issues anymore.”
Declaring views opposite to hers to be unacceptable on the scale of political correctness, Gillibrand said she believes that “for all of these issues, they are not issues that there is a fair other side. There is no moral equivalency when you come to racism, and I do not believe there is a moral equivalency when it comes to changing laws that deny women reproductive freedom.”
The Des Moines Register quoted her, “I would have a problem if my colleagues weren’t pro-choice.”
In these candidates’ race to reach the worst stand on abortion, there was nothing too extreme or repulsive, not partial-birth abortion, not “fourth trimester” abortion, not a street thug escaping a criminal charge after killing a pregnant mother’s wanted baby.
If presidential hopeful Joe Biden truly had wanted to scoop up more support by standing out from the field of fellow Democrats, he would have spoken out strongly to continue his longtime support of the Hyde Amendment against most federal abortion funding. But Biden quickly capitulated, rendering himself just one more pipsqueak in the one-note chorus.
The executive director of the pro-life Democrats for Life of America (DFLA), Kristen Day, issued a statement on June 9 saying:
“We are extremely disappointed that Vice President Biden chose to cave to the pressure of the abortion lobby instead of standing with a majority of Americans who support the Hyde Amendment. With all the major candidates fighting to be the most extreme on abortion, there is a wide-open lane for a candidate to bring an alternative position to the discussion and to unify Democrats around common-ground principles.”
The beleaguered pro-life Democrats’ news release, acknowledging how their party had changed for the worse, added, “The Hyde Amendment was signed into law in 1977 by Democratic President Jimmy Carter, with the support of almost half of the Democratic legislators in the U.S. Congress.”
A May 31 DFLA news release congratulated Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, “for his integrity and courage by signing Louisiana’s legislation to prohibit abortion once a heartbeat is detected.”
This news release concluded: “The Democratic Party’s efforts to move away from the goal of making abortion ‘safe, legal, and rare’ — the goal set by President Clinton — along with an increased effort to exclude pro-life Democrats from the party, are only playing into the Republicans’ hands to reduce the effectiveness of the Democrats’ ability to protect both women and children.”
As a pro-life Democrat on the national scene, Edwards was about as rare as a live baby at a Planned Parenthood abortuary.
Veteran liberal columnist Richard Cohen wasn’t impressed by Biden’s flip on Hyde. Cohen wrote: “I am ardently pro-choice and have long been opposed to the Hyde Amendment, but I am less than thrilled at Biden’s sudden conversion. It reeks of insincerity, of a decision made simply for political reasons. . . .
“It’s troubling that Biden should so easily abandon what, until the other day, seemed a deeply held position,” Cohen continued. “It is also troubling that a major element of the Democratic Party is so intolerant of an opposing idea that it would doom a candidacy on that basis alone.”
Noting that punishing pro-lifers was a longtime crusade by Dems, Cohen recalled that way back in 1992 Pennsylvania pro-life Gov. Robert Casey, a faithful liberal Democrat, had been denied a speaking slot at the Democratic National Convention.
That would have been Bill Clinton’s national convention, by the way.
The New York Sun, the online continuation of a historic newspaper whose print edition folded in the current tough media environment, noted that even its editorial policy was being pushed in the pro-life direction as a reaction to Democrats’ pro-abortion extremism.
A Sun editorial posted June 15, “New York City’s Shocking Abortion Plan,” said there was a hushed plan to pay money from a “New York Abortion Access Fund” for abortions done on women from pro-life states — even though this apparently means “send(ing) tax collectors to raid the savings of even religious Catholics and Jews, among others, and force them to underwrite a practice that horrifies them.”
The Sun editorialized that “it’s hard, too, not to see it as the logical next step to what is happening nationally, where the Democrats are bidding to become the abortion party. The front-runner for the party’s presidential nomination, Vice President Biden, has just cashiered his long-held principle of opposing public funding of abortions. He did that to get right with the new Democratic Party ideology.
“The Sun did not set out to become even a modest tribune of the pro-life movement,” the editorial added. “We favor a liberality of spirit, a preparedness to accommodate contending convictions. Yet we recoil against the shift toward illiberality” as shown by New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s pro-abortion extremism.
Another handiwork of Democrat abortion extremism was Illinois’ radical bill declaring the killing of preborn babies to be a “fundamental right,” signed into law in mid-June by new Dem Gov. J.B. Pritzker, a multibillionaire.
Thomas Paprocki, bishop of the Catholic diocese that includes the seat of Illinois’ legislature, in Springfield, prominently informed the sinful Catholic politicians who advanced the bill that they were not to receive the Holy Eucharist until they reconciled themselves with the Church.
Paprocki’s blunt action was unlike that of many prelates over the years, who seem to fear offending Dem abortion radicals.
Many Catholic bureaucrats have seemed to fear dealing strongly against Catholic Dem pro-abortionists because the Dems still nestle in their minds as “the Catholic party,” even though the jackass party for decades increasingly has made plain it’s actually the anti-Catholic party, with some prominent bad Catholics in leadership.
When The Wanderer took a look at the Springfield Diocese’s website the evening of June 19, Paprocki’s June 6 statement still was immediately apparent. It was headlined, “Bishop Paprocki: Illinois Catholic lawmakers who promoted or voted for extreme abortion legislation are not to receive Communion.”
The lengthy news release said, “Bishop Paprocki, who is a canon lawyer, consulted with other canon lawyers throughout North America before issuing this decree.”
It began: “Due to their leadership roles in promoting the evil of abortion by facilitating the passage of Senate Bill 25 this legislative session and House Bill 40 in 2017, House Speaker Michael Madigan and Senate President John Cullerton have been barred from receiving Holy Communion in the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois under a decree from Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois.
“In addition, Illinois Catholic lawmakers who voted for either of these abortion bills are not to present themselves to receive Holy Communion,” the release added.
While Paprocki expressed his wish that these politicians would reconcile themselves with the Church, the news release said: “The decree comes as these legislative leaders have shown obstinate and persistent support of extreme abortion legislation. House Bill 40 legalized taxpayer funding for abortion and Senate Bill 25 makes abortion a fundamental right, allows for the killing of innocent children up to the moment of birth, and requires private insurance to pay for abortion, among other anti-life changes.”
Counterproductive Cupich
However, the senior Catholic prelate in Illinois, Blase Cardinal Cupich, of the Archdiocese of Chicago, declined to take such a firm disciplinary line. When The Wanderer checked his Chicago archdiocesan website the evening of June 19, there was no such warning evident to offending politicians, although a June 1 statement by Cupich called passage of the bill “a sad moment in the history of our state.”
A June 14 story by Catholic News Agency quoted Cupich to the effect that it was up to God, not him, to enforce the canonical discipline.
The story said Cupich said: “I think it would be counterproductive to impose sanctions, simply because they don’t change anybody’s minds, but it also takes away from the fact that an elected official has to deal with the judgment seat of God, not just the judgment seat of a bishop. I think that’s much more powerful.”
One wonders if the liberal Cupich ever noticed that when a sinful politician only hears that God may punish him later, he may assume that God will have forgotten by then.
Will God have forgotten Cupich’s passivity, too?
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