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Thursday, September 25, 2008

Excerpts: Faulty Logic in Abortion Bill

The following excerpts are from Zenit.org To read the full text go to:
WASHINGTON, D.C., SEPT. 23, 2008 (Zenit.org).-
Cardinal Points to Faulty Logic in Abortion Bill


"A proposed "Freedom of Choice Act" is not about freedom at all, says the chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities.Cardinal Justin Rigali, archbishop of Philadelphia, pointed out the faulty logic in the proposed act in a letter Friday to all members of Congress.The act "would deprive the American people in all 50 states of the freedom they now have to enact modest restraints and regulations in the abortion industry. FOCA [the Freedom of Choice Act] would coerce all Americans into subsidizing and promoting abortion with their tax dollars. ......"


"....it creates a 'fundamental right' to abortion throughout the nine months of pregnancy, including a right to abort a fully developed child in the final weeks for undefined 'health' reasons. No government body at any level would be able to 'deny or interfere with' this newly created federal right......"

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