Catholics for Abortion makes Statement

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The Non-Prophets, Episode 22.27.4 featuring Secular Rarity, Helen Greene, Phoebe Rose and Kelley LaughlinCatholic Democrats issue new ‘statement of principles’ defending abortion rightsReligion News, By Jack Jenkins, June 24, 2023, https://religionnews.com/2023/06/24/catholic-democrats-issue-new-statement-of-principles-defending-abortion-rights/ This next story is about a group of Catholic Democrats in the U.S House of Representatives who unveiled a new statement of principles last week reaffirming their support for abortion rights and expanding on a similar letter that they had sent back two years ago.They referenced a poll from the public religion Research Institute that shows 61 of Hispanic Catholics 62 percent of white Catholics and 71 percent of Catholics of color all say abortion should be legal in all or most cases.While it is good to see anyone facing the right direction, you have to be concerned about people who admit to basing their life on guidelines from an organization that has condoned child abuse. It shows a lack of continuity in people's morals in such a way that is deeply deeply disturbing.Can people who follow a code coming out of the backside of a Papal headdress really be useful allies? How comfortable are you with them making laws that affect everyone?While their effort is in the right place, this time, should we congratulate these people for doing the most basic of good. How often will these same people be on opposite sides tomorrow? As said in the episode , “I'm not going to cheer you for not stabbing me today you would have done it yesterday oh you didn't do it today”The pope is not quaking in his bed hiding under the covers because these 30 Democrats signed a piece of paper , just a baseless symbolic thing in many ways.But in a more charitable view those individuals who signed this statement likely don't think this was a ploy, it is literally the exact same thing that has been done for decades. Perhaps just 30 individuals who genuinely believed things and wanted to put it out there to people and that's what you do as a public official.Does their statement have the potential of reaching people in the middle who are both religious and against abortion who see this as a tool to swing their vote? Perhaps helping people to sway more towards secular humanism?Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-non-prophets--3254964/support.

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