HOW WE GOT INTO THIS ABORTION MESS? - 1

How we got into this Abortion Mess? 1 of 2
The website – cinops be gone – Monday, Jan. 5, 2009

We covered this topic in Feb. 22nd, 2008 with Faithful Departed, “The Collapse of Boston’s Catholic Culture.” Let’s check out Anne Hendershott’s article in The Wall Street Journal, Jan. 1, 2009 How Support for Abortion Became Kennedy Dogma. Ms. Hendershott is a professor of urban studies at The King’s College in New York, She is the author of the “The Politics of Abortion”(Encounter Books, 2007). Sadly, we may have to censure some Catholic theologians.

Caroline Kennedy of New York knows that any Kennedy desiring higher office in the Democratic Party must now carry the torch of abortion rights …

Even Ted Kennedy, who gets 100% pro-choice rating from the abortion-rights group NARAL, was at one time pro-life. In fact, in 1971, a full year after New York had legalized abortion; the Massachusetts senator was still championing the rights of the unborn. In a letter to a constituent dated Aug. 3, 1971, he wrote:

“When history looks back to this era it should recognize this generation as one which cared about human beings enough to halt the practice of war, to provide a decent living for every family, and to fulfill its responsibility to its children from the very moment of conception.”
{Today, Ted Kennedy has also a cafeteria conscience on the evils of same-sex marriage, embryonic stem cell research, etc.ghk}

But all that changed in the early 70’s, when Democratic politicians first figured out the powerful abortion lobby could fill THEIR CAMPAIGN COFFERS (and attract new liberal voters). Politicians began to realize that, despite the Catholic Church’s teachings to the contrary, its bishops & priests had ended their public role of responding negatively to those who promoted a pro-choice agenda.

{All of this happened within the Kennedy Democratic party leadership? So to cater to the Kennedy clan and be an enabler of the Democratic Party, let’s find out what happened. Notice it’s all about money and the devil has a lot of it. ghk}

In some cases, church leaders actually started providing “cover” for Catholic pro-choice politicians who wanted to vote in favor of abortion rights. At a meeting at the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport, Mass., on a hot summer day in 1964, the Kennedy family and its advisers and allies were coached by leading theologians and Catholic college professors on how to accept and promote abortion WITH A “CLEAR CONSCIENCE.”

{So we had a mindset within the U.S. Church similar to what produced the Bishop’s sex scandal. It was wrong then & 45 years later it is wrong now.ghk}

The former Jesuit priest Albert Jonsen, emeritus professor of ethics at the University of Washington, recalls the meeting in his boot “Birth of Bioethics” (Oxford, 2003). He writes about how he joined with the Rev. Joseph Fuchs, a Catholic moral theologian: the Rev. Robert Drinan, then dean of Boston College Law School; and three academic theologians, the Revs. Giles Milhaven, Richard McCormick and Charles Curran, to enable the Kennedy family to redefine support for abortion....
George H. Kubeck