THE BIG CON - 5 of 6

THE BIG CON - 5 of 6
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Friday, September 11, 2009

Special Report – Catholic World Report- Aug. – Sept. 09 - THE BIG CON

With the publication of the Notre Dame ad, one cannot help but be reminded of the 1984 full-page New York Times ad placed by Frances Kissling’s abortion advocacy organization, Catholics for a Free Choice. Entitled “A Diversity of Opinions Regarding Abortions Exists Among Committed Catholics,” Kissling’s 1984 ad, like the Catholics in Alliance 2009 ad, included signatures from Catholic theologians, priests, nuns, academics, & other high dissenters within the Church.

However, times have changed, as Catholics for a Free Choice has been eclipsed by the younger, hipper, and more savvy organizations like Catholics in Alliance and Catholics United, which now use SOROS money to profess a pro-life orientation while promoting pro-abortion politicians and policies.

No longer a major player in Democratic politics, Frances Kissling has retired from the now re-named Catholic for Choice, as the organization has become ever more irrelevant. While still heavily financed by pro-abortion organizations poised to benefit by increasing abortion in the Catholic countries of Latin America and Europe, the abortion advocacy organization’s influence has declined.

The group occasionally issues meaningless press releases designed to remind Catholics that it is still around, but it is only a matter of time before the organization and its overt pro-abortion philosophy quietly fades away.

When Alexia Kelley was appointed to the Obama administration, the director of Catholics for Choice questioned Kelley’s “pro-life” orientation – but no one in the media paid much attention except a few bloggers and Catholics United.

On his website, Chris Korzen claimed that the Catholics for Choice attack on Kelley and the organizations Catholics in Alliance and Catholics United is “intended as a cover for Catholics for Choice’s increasing irrelevance, and its inability to offer any real solutions to the challenges of our day … the organization accomplishes little more than creating a hostile and divisive political climate.”

Korzen is correct. Unlike Catholics for Choice, the Catholics United and Catholics in Alliance have wisely refrained from open support for abortion. BY DECLINING TO ENGAGE AUTHENTICALLY IN THE CONTENTIOUS CULTURE WARS SURROUNDING ABORTION, CATHOLICS IN ALLIANCE APPEARS TO BE TAKING THE MORAL HIGH GROUND IN THEIR MESSAGING, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME PROMOTING PRO-ABORTION POLICIES AND CANDIDATES LIKE KATHLEEN SEBELIUS FOR CABINET POSITIONS.

George H. Kubeck, The 3,000 killed on 9/11 match the 3,000 snuffed out daily by abortion.