And thus starts to become pro-abortion:
File this one under “timing is everything in politics.” A recent Ohio poll showed that 64.2 percent of Ohioans strongly oppose public funding of abortion. Another 5.8 percent somewhat disagreed with that practice.
At the same time this poll was being conducted, Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan, an alleged pro-life Democrat, voted to support a bill to allow public funding of abortion. This is either unlucky timing for Congressman Ryan or a clear illustration of a politician abandoning the base that helped elect him to his current office.
It’s no secret that Congressman Ryan is very politically ambitious and has his eyes set on a statewide office in the near future.
Its an old, sad story of Democrat politics – so strong is the pro-abortion movement’s control that any Democrat who aspires to high office simply must tack towards the pro-abortion position in order to gain the Democrat support necessary for such a run. Additionally, any Democrat who desires to become President must entirely become pro-abortion in views, or its a no-go. Even someone as quixotic in his Presidential ambitions as Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) felt compelled to abandon a life time’s pro-life position in order to mount his foolish campaign for the White House.
And we are the side accused of ideological rigidity. If only! On Wednesday I went over to St. Elizabeth Ann Seton parish in order to spend some time in the chapel devoted to the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament (that would be worshiping Jesus, for those unfamiliar with Catholic practice). Right outside the door to this chapel is a memorial to all those children lost in the holocaust of abortion – and I have to say, it caught my heart, thinking of all those poor children murdered, and the poor mothers victimized by the cruelest and most inhuman practice since the days when children were sacrificed to Moloch. Where do we get this insane determination to keep legal this horrific thing, abortion? Where do we get politicians who would balance defense of life against personal ambition and come down on the side of ambition? Off to the side in that chapel is a statue of Mother Theresa holding a baby in her arms – where are there more like her, and less like the rest of us?
This will end. We will return to our senses – we will, in the fullness of time, come back to joy in life and hope in children.
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