-=ISSUE #4 - PART 2/2=- =CONTENTS:= -==========================================================================- =[PART 2/2]= I....ELECTION 2000 II...LETTERS TO THE EDITOR III..CONTACT INFO. -==========================================================================- -[=ELECTION 2000=]- A. "THE CATHOLIC VOTE" TO AIR B. THE ELECTIONS AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT C. WHY VOTE LIFE? D. SUPREME COURT CONSEQUENCES -==========================================================================- ******************************************************* I am Norma McCorvey, and was the plaintiff Roe in the Supreme Court's Roe vsWade decision which legalized abortion in 1973. Some candidates in our upcoming election say that they support Roe vs. Wade. Take it from me: they don't know what's good for women or for America. They talk about a "woman's right to choose." What an insult! Women don't get abortions because of freedom of choice. They get them because they feel they have no choice -- and it's usually the man who is making sure they have no choice! Norma McCorvey October 28, 2000 ****************************************************** -==========================================================================- ="THE CATHOLIC VOTE" TO AIR= We are proud to tell you about Priests For Life running a few shows and Masses on your local EWTN (Eternal World Television Network) Channel. If you do not have EWTN in your area, we suggest you (1) get your cable company to carry this channel! and (2) listen and watch their television and radio station on-line in the mean time. You can watch or listen live at http://www.ewtn.com/ The schedule of shows and Masses are as follows: Fri. Nov. 3 at 3am- Political Responsibility full hour show Fri. Nov. 3 - DAILY MASS shown four times with homily by Fr. Frank on Political Responsibility: 8am, 12 noon, 7pm, and Midnight Fri. Nov. 3 at 10pm- Political Responsibility full hour show DAILY short spots at various hours -==========================================================================- ****************************************************** I am Mary Doe of the Doe v. Bolton U.S. Supreme Court decision, the companion case to Roe v. Wade which legalized abortion in America. A woman’s health both mentally and physically is not helped by abortion. I have met lots of women who tearfully tell me about how they have been hurt by abortion, some from physical injuries but all suffer mentally with the guilt of killing their child. While I have never had an abortion myself, I suffer each day knowing that a legal matter of mine was twisted and used to legalize the murder of innocent children. Abortion is very wrong. No one who supports abortion deserves to hold elective office. Vote Prolife....it’s what God does. Sandra Cano October 28, 2000 ****************************************************** -==========================================================================- =THE ELECTIONS AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT= by Fr. Frank Pavone (National Director of Priests for Life) A chorus of voices has rightly been raised to abandon the practice of capital punishment, and the Priests for Life association has been among those voices. Some people also raise this as a campaign issue (though both Presidential candidates favor capital punishment). Yet others go a step further, and say that one's support of capital punishment somehow "cancels" one's opposition to abortion, and makes the candidate no better than a pro-abortion candidate. This is not at all the case. Just ask the question, "Under what circumstances can our country make the best progress against capital punishment?" The answer I propose is, "When we begin moving away from abortion." One of the reasons capital punishment is wrong is that it feeds the notion that we solve our problems by killing people. To overcome it, we need to help people see that killing people is not the way to solve problems. Does the practice of killing 4000 babies a day to solve the problem of crisis pregnancies make this task easier or harder? When people live under laws and court decisions that legitimize death for the innocent, will it be harder or easier for them to legitimize death for the guilty? To ignore the impact that a continued abortion policy has on one's views about capital punishment is to ignore the meaning of the consistent ethic of life. The key idea of the consistent ethic is linkage. Progress in one area of the defense of life facilitates progress in all areas, whereas setbacks in one area create setbacks in others. Continued setbacks in restoring protection to the unborn will make it all the more difficult to insure protection for those on death row. (An interesting observation in this regard is the timing of the Supreme Court's decision to allow the death penalty to be reinstated. The year was 1976, three years after Roe vs. Wade.) Practically speaking, therefore, in regard to the upcoming elections, even if candidates' positions on capital punishment are equally unsatisfactory, that does not make the candidates equally unsatisfactory. Those who will help us make progress against abortion are, whether they know it or not, helping our fight against capital punishment. [CHECK OUT THE PRIESTS FOR LIFE WEBSITE BY VISITING http://www.priestsforlife.org/] -==========================================================================- ==WHY VOTE LIFE?== "Calls to advance human rights are illusions if the right to life itself is subject to attack" (US Bishops, Faithful Citizenship, 1999). What if you were told that all your rights were guaranteed and secure, except your right to live? That would be an empty promise, wouldn't it? After all, rights don't do us much good if we're not alive to enjoy them. That's the problem with candidates who sound good because of all the rights they want to promote, but won't let people be born to enjoy them. That's the problem with the "pro-choice" mentality. To choose to take away a baby's life by abortion is to take away all that baby's present and future rights. Government has no authority to do that. Government exists, instead, to secure the rights of the people. Some candidates claim not to know when life begins. So if they're hunting, and don't know whether what is moving behind the bush is a bear or a man, may they shoot? If not, then how do they justify abortion when they're not sure what it destroys? We have a moral responsibility to vote. There is no perfect candidate, but this year's elections can move our nation at least a little closer to moral sanity on this issue. When you vote, make sure you know where the candidates stand on abortion, "the fundamental human rights issue for all men and women of good will" (US Bishops, Resolution on Abortion, 1989). -==========================================================================- ==SUPREME COURT CONSEQUENCES== To view the entire article, please visit http://www.catholicreality.com/supreme.txt ABSTRACT: This article is not too terribly long, but it deals with the major differences that matter the most to Catholic Law Professors. We encourage you to read this to not only get an understanding of the differences between the candidates, but also understand the importance of this election as far as Justices being appointed is concerned. Thanks... -==========================================================================- -[=LETTERS TO THE EDITOR=]- A..Letters B..Write Us!! -==========================================================================- ==LETTERS== This month we recieved two letters to the editor in response to who they are going to vote for in this election... ********************************* DEAR EDITOR, I did watch the presidential debates the other evening and have decided that money means so much to America that anything on the moral side will always come in second. We as a people will settle for anyone that we feel can make us more prosperous. He can be the slime of the earth and a total disgusting human being but if he can put a dollar in our pockets then he must be the man for us. It truely makes me sick that a good moral man with the intentions of saving human life has to stand up and defend himself. I wonder what excuses people are planning to give God at judgement day on why they have killed his children. Do you think that when He hears,"But we weren't planning on having any children" He will say, "Oh, I understand." I DON'T THINK SO! Pray for the children, Vernette ********************************* Vernette, You know what? It kinda makes we wonder if that is all people see when they get up in the morning...Dollar signs? The greener the better.. Thanks for the letter! ********************************* DEAR EDITOR, After reading Father Frank Pavonne’s letter, votesmart, I have decided to vote for Bush. Father Frank Pavonne is head of Priests for Life, a order of Priests dedicatated to Respecting Human Life from conception to Natural Death and encouraging others to do the same. You can find his letter by going to http://www.priestsforlife.com or http://www.ewtn.com then vote2000 , then click on votesmart. I am voting for Bush because he has a history of voting pro-life. And because the Catholic Church teaches that at the moment of conception the new life has been given an eternal soul by God and to end that life is to kill the new life created by God. Some may say that "I am personally pro-life but do not believe in pushing my views on others". If to have an abortion is killing a new life created by God and the commandment "Do not kill" was given to Moses by God Himself, then the "view point" do not kill is not invented by pro-lifers but by God . And the Constitution is supposed to protect our God given rights. The most basic of these rights is "the right to live" Therefore to vote pro-life is to ensure that politicials will secure our God given right to live and our constitutional rights. If politicians do not ensure the constitutional rights of the helpless babies what will stop them from then taking away all our constitutional rights. The right to vote, freedom of speech, the right to practice our religion and the right to raise our own children. This has happen in Russia, China and many countries. What is to stop it from happening here if we allow politicians to take away the right to liveof the helpless babies. No one is taking away the "choice" of the mother to have or not have a baby. They may choose to have sex or not and they may choose to give a baby in adoption. All we pro-lifers are saying is "the babies have a constitutional right not to be murdered" once God has created them. Jennifer Racancoj ********************************* Dear Jennifer, Great letter. I don't think I could have done any better myself. Perhaps you should be the editor of this newsletter and not me? Thanks for your thoughts, its appriciated! ********************************* -==========================================================================- =CONTACT INFO!!!= -==========================================================================- If you want to get your thoughts out, send us a Letter to the Editor! 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