President of Planned Parenthood to Speak at Democratic Convention

By Keith A. Fournier
8/24/2012
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)

Cecile Richards, the President of Planned Parenthood and Nancy Keenan the President of the National Abortion Rights Action League, will have a place of prominence as speakers at the Democratic Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Speaking of abortion, Democratic Governor Bob Casey once wrote: "It's hard to think of anything more foreign to the principles of the Democratic Party or the whole American experience. Far from being "inclusive", it excludes an entire class of fellow human beings from our care and protection. It's the only "constitutional right" we're ashamed of, avoiding the word abortion with contorted euphemisms like "reproductive rights" and "termination" and "evacuation". Far from liberating women, abortion has become a lucrative industry, exploiting young women beyond anything ever imagined."

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CHESAPEAKE, VA. (Catholic Online) - Next week the Republican Party gathers in Tampa, Florida to nominate Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan as their candidates. The following week the Democratic Party gathers in Charlotte, North Carolina to re-nominate President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden as their candidates.

Then, the Presidential campaign of 2012 begins in earnest in the United States. Since the candidates of both major are a foregone conclusion, do these conventions really matter? Does the selection of speakers at the conventions matter? Are the Party platforms all that important?

My answer to all three questions is yes.

Yesterday I wrote about the Republican Convention and Platform. Some of my readers accused me of being partisan. Once again, I write as a private citizen. Also, once again, Catholic Online is a for profit organization and is not restricted in its political speech. So, I will confess, I am a reluctant Republican. I was forced out of the Democratic Party when its leadership was hijacked by the abortion supporters and cultural revolutionaries who now control it.

Over the years I have sincerely sought to inform my political participation by the principles offfered by Catholic Social Thought. I have taken on both major political parties in the United States over the years in my writings. Like many others, I have seriously considered helping to found an alternative. However, I have chosen to work within the current structure and thus had to choose one Party over the other. I always look to the candidate first and then to the Party platform.

The modern Democratic Party still claims to care about the poor. However, it officially rejects the cry of the poorest of the poor, our first neighbors in their mother's womb. The Democratic Party Platform calls the taking of their lives a "Right". It rejects the true Right, the inalienable Right to Life.

The efforts of Kristen Day and Democrats for Life to include language in the Party Platform recognizing the Democratic Party as a "big tent" which included pro-Life Democrats was roundly rejected. So much for the Party claim of inclusivity.

I hope there are some Pro-Life Democrats as Kristen continually asserts. I was disappointed in recent years by elected Democrats who claimed to be Pro-Life and voted in a manner completely inconsistent with it. I have also been disappointed by Republicans. So, if there are any Pro-Life Democrats left, maybe they can pick up the pieces and rebuild if the Regime ruling their Party is ousted after a loss at the Ballot Box in November.

I would love to see both major political parties in the United States Pro-Life. After all, the Right to life is not a partisan issue it is a human rights issue. It is time to acknowledge as a Nation what medical science confirms and the Natural Law reveals, children in the womb are human persons and possess that inalienable right to life our founders proclaimed in the Birth Certificate of this Nation.

Without the right to life there are no other rights. Without the freedom to be born, there are no other freedoms. Using rights language to support abortion on demand is reprehensible. That is what the Democratic Party - which once claimed to represent those with no voice - has been reduced to.

This year the Democratic Platform officially rejects marriage and, by extension, the family and society founded upon it. They will follow the pattern of sophistry they used in rejecting the Right to Life. They will call their decision to no longer defend marriage something other than what it is.

True marriage is the most fundamental of all human social institutions. It is a relationship revealed by the natural law. Civil institutions do not create marriage nor can they create a "right" to marry for those who are incapable of it.

Party Platforms which call upon civil institutions to abandon marriage are dangerous. The institutions of government should, when acting properly, defend marriage against those who would redefine it. To do otherwise can never serve the common good.

Marriage is the lifelong union between one man and one woman ordered to love, the conception and rearing of children and the formation of family, which is the first vital cell of society. The 2012 Democratic Party Platform rejects this truth. The Party is now officially opposed to marriage.

Government has long regulated marriage for the common good. The ban on polygamy and age requirements were enforced in order to ensure that there was a mature decision at the basis of the Marriage contract.

To limit marriage to heterosexual couples is not discriminatory now, nor has it ever been. Homosexual couples cannot bring into existence what marriage intends by its ...

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Stephany
8 months ago
The democrat party will show what their priorities are. Obviously, most seem to be related to sex. Their convention is poised to feature the head of Planned Parenthood, NARAL, Sandra Fluke (of contraceptive fame), and others of similar interest. What does this say about where they want to lead this country, most especially our vulnerable youth.?
If we as catholics believe in the mission of Our Lord Jesus Christ, was to save our souls, why on earth would any catholic support this agenda?
This feminist nonsense is just a brainwashing of women in effort to debase them of virtue, and free men of any responnsibiility. Obama and the democrats seek to draw people into this trap of dependence which is designed to keep them in power. Who would want to give up true freedom for chains attached to a government which couldn't care less about them, except at election time?
Judy Claar
8 months ago
Deacon Keith, Excellent ! I hope Dems can See, and come to the other side. I especially liked your quote of Dem. Gov. Bob Casey: your explanation of how the Dem. Party Rejects the Poorest of the Poor, (so why are Catholic Dems. using the excuse of voting for Obama when he does not take care of the poor?) ; your discussion on True Marriage; and etc. This article should turn a Catholic Dem. to a Catholic Rep. IF one is of True Catholic thought and reasoning. It is an Excellent article backed by Facts and Truth. Thank you. Sunday Blessings...
robert matzinger
8 months ago
"Planned Parenthood," and all that it stands for, is one of the standard bearers of the democratic party. Therefor it's certainly expected that it will speak to it's masses of admirerers and thank them for their continued support for abortions upon demand and for them to be paid for by all taxpayers.
abey
8 months ago
The truth is that most of the Catholics were supporters of the Democratic party till such time Feminism(in the form of the Jezebel Spirit relating to Zechariah Ch: 5, to the wickedness in the Ephah) entered the party & many of them from its own, authenticating the words of Jesus in Revelations to the 'Church of Thyatira". However to the deceit of satan, the Catholic Church is generally being portrayed as the Babylonian harlot & the origins to these false portrayals came through the earlier breakaway groups, further capitalized by the 'Beast" to the saying "Evil" that which is garbage fishes in troubled waters. One of the chief reasons to the woes of the Church is from the preachings that come from the Pulpit more to "appeasings"(which are to idols) falsifying that Love of Christ(to the very reason as to why the Arc of the Covenant also contains the Rod of Aaron) instead of the preaching the Truth to the fulness off & like Jesus, the witness of The Father.
Jas
8 months ago
I WAS FORCED OUT OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY TOO! I WAS A HARD CORE OBAMA FOLLOWER until THE HHS MANDATE and THE REDEFINITION OF MARRIAGE etc.

I gave 100 dollars to his campaign before this campaign unrolled to be what it is: an exploitation of the human person.
vance
8 months ago
Cecile Richards is the "Poster Child" for the Party of Death. I won't be watching but I bet she will receive a long standing ovation. I for the life of me can not understand how a Catholic can vote for Obama or the Party of Death. This Party is making it as bold as possible to demonstrate how anti-Christian, anti-Catholic they are. Obama spit in the face of Cardinal Dolan when he imposed the HHS Mandate. Things promise to get worse.
Chardin
8 months ago
Maybe if people of goodwill never left the Democratic Party, it would have been possible to turn it around.
Rob
8 months ago
It saddens me that a party would embrace these morally evil things so enthusiatically. The party has become so morally bankrupt that the bar of performance for both parties just keeps going lower and lower.

I am no fan of the GOP, but no Catholic in good conscience can cast a vote the dems this cycle. As I said in another post, I still believe Romney has picked a side and so as Obama for purposes of political expediency, but choosing a moral evil is just wrong. It saddens me even more that our society believes this pro-death platform is ok. Thank goodness we aren't living for the world because right now things seem so dark.
Stephanie
8 months ago
Sorry, but IMO the "lesser of two evils" case applies here. Would you rather have someone who is pro-abortion for any reason at any point during the pregnancy, or someone who is only pro-abortion in cases of rape or incest? The pro-abortion in cases of rape or incest is at least a step in the right direction, and most abortions are not performed because of rape or incest.

I think a lot of women are being taken advantage of and treated like they're stupid, sort of forced or tricked into having an abortion. We need to spread the love of Christ, his forgiveness for women who have had abortions and repented, and spread the TRUTH about what abortion is, that the overwhelming majority say they regret their abortions (70-82%), that abortion was a very traumatic experience for women who were raped (psychologically, it's like being raped all over again), and that the incest abortions only serve to cover up domestic sexual abuse.
Lindangel
8 months ago
Dear Marcus Allen, your post is very powerful and true. As a fellow Christian and Catholic, I am just so full of anguish that our fellow Christians and Catholics, refuse to see the evil of the Democratic party and the evil of Obama. All we can do is pray to the Father and the Son and Mary that these folks will have their eyes opened before the election.

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