Matt C. Abbott
Priest-activist: Hillary 'tops the blindness list'
By Matt C. Abbott
It's official: Hillary Clinton is running for president.
Try not to get too excited.
Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, says it better than I can:
© Matt C. Abbott
April 14, 2015
It's official: Hillary Clinton is running for president.
Try not to get too excited.
Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, says it better than I can:
As I point out in my new book, Abolishing Abortion (due in August from Thomas Nelson/HarperCollins), there is a profound blind spot in the views and policies advocated by many public officials regarding the unborn. Hillary Clinton tops the blindness list. Her attitude toward children in the womb is that they are not welcome to enjoy the basic constitutional protection our nation affords to everyone else's life.But then again, Hillary is seeking her party's nomination for president, and the Democratic Party is affected by the same blind spot so severely that it's not imaginable that anyone can seriously seek that party's nomination without being blind to the children in the womb.
Now some will say that, even in political debate, we need to be nice. Particularly in church circles, as we go into the 2016 political cycle, the pleas for 'civility' will probably be louder than the pleas for the children in the womb.
But the fact is that civility is not the highest virtue in political discourse. Honesty is. This doesn't imply that we need to be mean or coarse. But it does imply that when there's a holocaust going on around us, and an entire political party not only denies it but fosters it, we can't sit back and pretend that the main thing that matters is that we be nice and non-partisan. Someone has to start sounding the alarm, and it might as well be us.
So, Hillary, are you going to answer any questions about why dismembering children in the womb should continue to be the policy of the nation of which you want to be president? And if you cannot respect the life of a little baby, how are we to expect you to respect ours?
In 2016 and beyond, the people of God have to elect public servants who know the difference between serving the public and killing the public.
© Matt C. Abbott
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