Boy howdy, the pro life and pro-abortion debate sure has heated up lately.  In case any of you have not kept up with the news, a highly charged debate has erupted over the resignation of my newfound hero, Karen Handel, vice president for public affairs for the Susan G. Komen Foundation.  Seems that Ms. Handel drove the decision to defund Panned Parenthood, the slaughterhouse organization of the unborn, funded mostly by liberal minded individuals and supported by politicians mostly affiliated with the Democrat Party.  A promise Ms. Handel made when she ran for governor of Georgia in 2010 prior to being hired by the Komen Foundation.  I get a kick of how Planned Parenthood boast that they render medical health assistance to help women burden with an unwanted pregnancy.  And by doing so, they kill their unborn baby.  Such caring individuals aren’t they?

During this Susan G. Komen and Planned Parenthood skirmish I was baffled at the public outcry over the announcement of Komen pulling their funding from Planned Parenthood.  As a Catholic and strong pro-life advocate I strongly supported Ms. Handel decision. However, I was sadden that due to the public relations mess that ensured her decision, the Komen Foundation reversed Ms. Handel’s decision to defund Planned Parenthood which sadly led to her resignation.  In departing, Ms. Handel stated that she decries the “gross mischaracterizations” of the situation and maintains that the decision was not about politics, though many politicians, mostly Democrats, decried her actions. She went on to say that before she joined Komen, the controversy related to Planned Parenthood had long been a concern to the organization.  And why shouldn’t it be, the Komen Foundation tries to save lives, while Planned Parenthood murders the unborn!  In her signoff, Ms. Handel waived her right to a severance package. Were I in her shoes I’d probably do likewise, I wouldn’t want a drop of the blood of one murdered unborn on my hands!

I just received a letter from Allied Women’s Center, a pro-life group in San Antonio that I support.  The letter stated that in 2011 the organization save 72 (mostly Hispanic) babies from being murdered at Planned Parenthood facilities in San Antonio.  I became aware of this group while attending mass in San Antonio some 15 years ago.  What impressed me with these wonderful volunteers was when they carried 3 beautiful Hispanic babies into the church and told the congregation that when they approached the mothers of the soon to be aborted babies, they begged them to let their babies live.  The volunteers assured the pregnant girls that they would help them by caring for them until their babies were born.  They went on to tell the congregations that many times after the babies are born the girls often fall in love with their babies and decided to care for them.  Every Christmas I get a letter with photos of the beautiful babies this wonderful organization save annually.

In conjunction with the Komen, Planned Parenthood funding abortion issue, the Catholic Church found itself in complete opposition with the Obama Administration in which the President signed off on a Health and Human Services ruling that says that under ObamaCare, Catholic institutions — including charities, hospitals and schools — will be required by law, for the first time ever, to provide and pay for insurance coverage that includes contraceptives, abortion-inducing drugs and sterilization procedures.  If they do not, they will face ruinous fines in the millions of dollars. Or, they can always go out of business.  In other words, the Obama Administration told the Catholic Church that its institutions couldn’t be Catholic anymore.  After a strong protest from the church’s bishops stating they will not bow down to the President’s abortion demands.  The Obama Administration sort of reversed it abortion stance. However, they will still provide insurance contraceptive coverage to those who want it free of charge. Meaning, taxpayers will be funding the killing of the most innocent of our society, the unborn.

None of this surprises me; the smallest part of this story is political.  There are 77.7 million Catholics in the United States. In 2008 they made up 27% of the electorate, about 35 million people.  Obama carried the Catholic vote, 54% to 45%.  Will Catholics support Obama in 2012?  It wouldn’t surprise me if they will.  Many of my friends and family members are Catholic and they despise abortion and same sex marriage but they still vote for liberal Democrats.  Just look at the Democrat leaders like Pelosi, Biden, Kennedy, Kerry and other Democrat Catholic politicians who champion these issues strongly opposed by the Catholic Church.

An estimated 1.37 million abortions are performed annually in the United States. Hitler and his henchmen, who slaughtered 7 million Jews, pale in comparison to what the Democrat Party supports in condoning and funding abortion institutions in the United States.  While white women obtain 60% of all abortions (1,197 daily), their abortion rate is well below that of minority women.  Black women are more than 3 times (1,207 daily) as likely as white women to have an abortion, and Hispanic women are roughly 2 times as likely (829 daily).  I’m certain that white supremacist groups like the KKK and others loved what Planned Parenthood and the Democrat Party does in killing those they hate.

I’ll end with this comment by the Rev. Clenard H. Childress, a black minister, who calls this phenomenon “black genocide”, and has built a national ministry around the exposure of what he calls “the greatest deception [to] plague the black church since Lucifer himself”.

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