BHO sure has these nuns brainwashed. Nuns used to be so strong in the faith but I am shocked to see them leading the liberal fight and siding with the most pro abortion president in history and literally throwing the babies under the bus. Glad she was reprimanded. Time for the church to stand up not blend in. She is from Chicago...doesn't she remember how BHO opposed and spoke against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act to save babies that survive botched abortions.
Baird had set off a firestorm among abortion opponents
April 8, 2010
The Chicago nun who oversees the Archdiocese of Chicago’s Office for Racial
Justice is apologizing for a comment she made making a distinction between being
“pro-abortion” and “pro-choice.” Sister Anita Baird had set off a firestorm among Roman Catholics who oppose abortion when she was quoted in a story on the anti-abortion Web site LifeSiteNews.com as saying:
“The president is not pro-abortion. The president is pro-choice. I think they are two very different things. To be pro-abortion is that you believe in abortion and you support it. And I don’t think you’ll find that the president has ever said that.”
Now, the archdiocese has posted a statement from Baird on its Web site in which she renounces her previous comments.
“I am affirming my belief in the teachings of the Catholic Church and understand that there can be no distinction between pro-abortion and pro-choice because the choice at issue is the choice to kill a child,” Baird said. “I also apologize to those who were scandalized by my statement.”
Her original comments in the story that appeared Tuesday on LifeSiteNews.com created an uproar in the anti-abortion world and have bounced around the blogosphere.
Baird could not be reached for comment today. '
Her office already was in the news for honoring — with Cardinal Francis George’s blessing — the Rev. Michael Pfleger, an activist-priest who’s been a target of some religious conservatives for his backing of Obama and his inflammatory, racially tinged comments during the election about now-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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I have to disagree with the sisiter when she now claims
"that there can be no distinction between pro-abortion and pro-choice".
To be pro choice means that you are for women being able to choose what is best for their personal circumstance. That might be raising the abortion, adoption or raising the baby herself, married or not.
When someone uses the term proabortion they mean that the only choice they support is abortion (just as when someone says prolife the only choice they support is giving birth). You don't believe me? Well, here's a good example of that attitude from Carla, a moderator at Jill Stanek made this comment today:
"Choosing abortion saddens prolifers while choosing life ENRAGES proaborts".
A prochoicer by contrast, would not be enraged by any choice a woman made.
I am prochoice and, while I must admit that they can enrage me at times, I am filled with joy by my children!
The sister had it right the first time: Proabortion and Prochoice are two different things.
Thanks for your comment. As someone who used to be pro choice and is now pro life...obviously I see it differently. You basically see all choices as equal where I see one choice ...abortion as the ending of a life which is unacceptable. It is never in the best interest of the baby to be killed. It may seem like the best interest of the mother to end the life of her baby but the baby doesn't seem to get any choice here.The whole gist of Roe versus Wade was that the mother has dominion over the life in the womb.
So being pro life once conception has occurred parenting or adoption are the pro life alternatives. Abortion is not a choice for a pro life person.
Why the change in thinking....long story but the evidence that life begins at conception is overwhelming and is quite frankly scientific evidence now. All we are discussing then is size, level of development, location and degree of dependence. So when you examine them individually they are no more reason to kill the human being than they would be to kill the toddler. So if I can't kill the toddler, I can't kill the baby in the womb no matter the circumstance.
But I appreciate your thoughts on the matter.. but to accept abortion as a choice is being pro abortion. You are a pro choice woman would say you are pro parenting, pro adoption and pro abortion.
"You basically see all choices as equal where I see one choice ..."
Who says I see all the choices as equal Susan? Pro choice does not mean that.
I can appreciate that you have your own beliefs and are therefore against abortion.
I do not not share your beliefs and I do think that abortion should be a choice in some circumstances. That does NOT mean however that I think it an "equal" choice to raising a child or putting up for adoption.
Prochoice means you are for choice. It does not mean, as Carla suggests, that you are only for abortion.
And that is exactly what the sister was originally saying. She was wrong in her apology.
But what I cannot reconcile is when is it okay for the baby to die.
As Greg Kouhl of Stand to Reason says that if abortion does not take the life of an innocent human being, we have no argument at all...do it all day long but if it does take the life of an innocent human being what justification is adequate...
Again, appreciate your viewpoints and your civil expression of them.
"But what I cannot reconcile is when is it okay for the baby to die."
Okay, that's fine but the issue at hand is not whether you think abortion is "okay" or not. It's whether or not there is a difference between being "pro-abort" and being "pro-choice".
And again, I say there is a difference. Pro-choice means that you are for choice. Pro-abortion means that you are ONLY for abortion just as pro-life
means you are only for life.
Someone who is pro-choice is not ENRAGED when someone chooses life. If they are, then they are really pro-abort.
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