Part 4 - A Parable - The Abortion Party

Part 4 – A Parable – The Abortion Party
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Monday, December 27, 2010

“The Democratic formal and unwavering support for abortion has given abortion the appearance of normalcy, of being mainstream. On the contrary, it is inimical not only to Christian living but to good human living. “When each politician with whom I visited sought to defend himself by saying that he himself had never had an abortion or procured one, I quoted to each of them – and I quote to you today – John 19:11, where Jesus said to Pilate, ’You have no power over me if it had not been given to you from above. For this reason the one that handed me over to you has the greater sin.’

“I paraphrased this for them: “The abortionist would have no power over the preborn child if it had not been given to him by the courts and the legislators. For this reason, the courts and legislatures who handed millions of human babies over to the abortionists have the greater sin.’

“As most of you know, my parents named me for St. John Fisher, who, alone among all the bishops of England, stood fast with the pope and the Church against schism, and was martyred. So, I cannot help reflecting on these current circumstances in light of those of England, and of Henry VIII, in the 1500s. King Henry believed that his wife, Catherine of Aragon, had failed him and England in not bringing forth a male heir. On its face, this would seem to have little to do with today’s debate about abortion because, after all, Henry wanted to have a child, not to abort a child. But it has a great deal to do with today’s debate.

“Henry urged what in today’s terminology would be called the right of an individual to reproduce. To bear a son, however, he would have to abort the marriage. He would treat Catherine and the institution of marriage like so much dung. And he would require every person in the realm, his chancellor and friend St. Thomas More, and all the bishops of the realm, to actively support him. He would sunder the Church between her English and non-English parts, he would sunder the pope and the faithful, rather than countenance any limitation on “right” to reproduce.

“He would kill the Church in England, he would kill More and Fisher, he would kill his marriage, he would kill innocent human beings – as long as it was to cure the disease of failed succession. In today’s terminology, he didn’t believe the Church’s view of morality should be imposed on him – and he could change the law and change the institution of marriage to fit his alleged right.

“Brothers, the men and women who call themselves Catholic and who support the alleged right to murder innocent preborn children are heirs to Henry VIII. They would kill marriage, they would kill innocent human beings rather than yield to Christ, to the constant and consistent teaching of the Church, to the pope, to the universal regard for the dignity of men and women, the dignity of marriage, the dignity of human offspring…” to be continued

George H. Kubeck, the above from New Oxford Review, Nov. 2010, A Parable- The Rise of the Abortion Party.