Share This Info With "Catholic" Democrats (they may be in your family)

Greetings in Jesus and Mary.....

I pray all are well and are praying for our nation and its elections. (below a link with a prayer by Fr. Ripperger on this election).

Also, there is a link below of an analysis done by the Lepanto Institute of the debate but I want to focus on the subject of abortion (minutes 9 to 43 of the analysis). This is critical to ALL CATHOLIC VOTERS! If a person claims to be Catholic and is willing to vote for someone who wants and allows infanticide as well as unlimited abortions.....that is a problem and a mortal sin. This is why this country is suffering (and the world). Mother Teresa, when alive, stated that abortion would be the reason for a lack of peace in the world.

Following info in italics is From Lifesite News.....
"According to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) and pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute reviewed by the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI), while more than 90% of abortions occur in the first trimester, more than 50,000 abortions a year take place after 15 weeks (almost four months into pregnancy), and approximately 10,000 after 20 weeks (five months). 

Further, CLI documents that various pro-abortion sources affirm most of these abortions are not sought for extreme so-called “medical emergencies,” as their defenders insist. A 2013 Guttmacher report admitted “data suggests that most women seeking later terminations are not doing so for reasons of fetal anomaly or life endangerment,” and notorious late-term abortionist Warren Hern’s own published data found that “fetal abnormalities” ranged from just a fifth to a third of his patients – and that the most common of those “abnormalities” was Down syndrome, a condition that is neither a death sentence nor even a guarantee of an unhappy life. In any case, direct abortion is always gravely immoral and is never needed nor justified for “health” reasons.

To put late-term abortion numbers in perspective, Institute for Family Studies demographer Lyman Stone writes, “Abortions after 32 weeks are a very small share of total abortions – perhaps 0.5%.”

That would come to 5,000 third-trimester abortions – which, while a seemingly small number in isolation, would account for 2-in-10 homicides in the U.S. and be “second biggest cause of death among people under 18 (after congenital immaturity).”

As for the incidence of infanticide, “[a]lthough the United States fails to record reliable data on abortion survivors, we have estimated, through Canadian government extrapolations, that 1,734 infants are born alive after a failed abortion procedure every year in the United States,” says the Abortion Survivors Network. “In other words, about 2 out of every 1,000 abortions result in a live birth. After 49.5 years of Roe v Wade, 85,817 babies lived through an abortion procedure.”

In September 2024, the Family Research Council (FRC) wrote that “State-level abortion reporting statistics from nine states show that at least 277 infants have survived abortion since 2006.” Only eight states require reporting such data, and there are no federal reporting requirements on the subject, guaranteeing the real number is higher. Several former abortion industry insiders and policy scholars have told Congress or admitted under oath that infanticide after failed abortions happens beyond the notice of official numbers.

The law
As of July 29, 2024, nine states – Alaska, Colorado, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, and Vermont – plus the District of Columbia “do not restrict abortion based on gestational duration,” according to Guttmacher, meaning abortion can be committed up to the ninth month for any reason. In addition, “Maine allows for abortion after viability when a physician deems it necessary,” and gives abortionists effectively unlimited discretion to decide what constitutes “necessary.” 

Infanticide is technically illegal nationwide under the under the federal Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002. However, BAIPA “did not directly create civil or criminal penalties,” as admitted by a 2019 PolitiFact article (which nevertheless gave Trump a “false” rating on the subject, which LifeSiteNews dissected at the time). That law was “toothless and purely symbolic,” the article quoted University of Massachusetts law professor and Pro-Life Legal Defense Fund member Dwight Duncan as saying.

As of September 2024, only 18 states have laws requiring medical care for infants delivered alive after attempted abortions, according to FRC, leaving abortionists free to commit infanticide in a majority of the country.

The Democrats
To remedy BAIPA’s deficiencies, Republicans in Congress have repeatedly put forth the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (BAASPA), which would mandate that abortion-surviving newborns be shown the “same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence” as would be given following an intended birth, and then be “immediately transported and admitted to a hospital.” Violating physicians would face up to five years in prison, and those who go beyond willful negligence and commit an “overt act” to kill the newborn would be punished under the existing federal murder statute.

BAIPA passed Congress unanimously two decades ago, but over the past decade congressional Democrats have consistently voted against both BAASPA and the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would ban elective abortions after five months with exceptions for rape, incest, and “medical emergencies.” As noted by Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America (SBA), Harris herself voted against each measure twice during her time as a U.S. senator.

As she did in Tuesday’s debate, Harris has consistently refused when asked to identify a specific point after which she would agree to restrict abortion. Both she and incumbent President Joe Biden have repeatedly called for restoring the provisions of Roe v. Wade, which ostensibly allowed restricting abortion after viability as long as “health” exceptions were allowed, but left defining “health” up to its companion ruling Doe v. Bolton, which said “medical judgment” must be allowed to consider “all factors – physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman’s age – relevant to the wellbeing of the patient.”

Biden has specifically endorsed the so-called “Women’s Health Protection Act” (WHPA), which Harris also supports and which would forbid states from passing any law that not only prohibits abortion but would be “reasonably likely to delay or deter” or “indirectly” raise the cost of abortions. As with Roe, the bill says it would allow restrictions after a baby can survive outside the womb, but gives abortionists discretion to decide if a post-viability abortion is “necessary” for a mother’s “health.”

READ: Kamala Harris vows to sign federal pro-abortion law, pro-LGBT ‘Equality Act’ in campaign platform

Harris’s vice presidential running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, signed last year the so-called “Protect Reproductive Options (PRO) Act,” which declares abortion up until birth a “fundamental right.”

The politics
Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe in 2022, polling and ballot initiative trends in a more pro-abortion direction have frightened many Republicans into adopting a more defensive posture on the subject. However, polls also consistently show that clear majorities remain opposed to late-term abortion. 

In June 2023, a Tarrance Group poll commissioned by SBA found that 77 percent of respondents supported limiting elective abortion to the first 15 weeks. The Marist Institute’s January 2024 abortion survey, commissioned every year by the Knights of Columbus, found that only 42 percent of Americans support keeping elective abortion generally legal after the first trimester, and just 29 percent after the second trimester, while just 33 percent believe that abortion should not have any limits.
Gallup found in June 2024 that while the general public identifies more as “pro-choice” than “pro-life,” only 35 percent believe it should be legal “under any circumstances.”

We must pray and offer reparation for this sin and pray for this nation and the world to turn back to God and the sacredness of life.

Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!

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Lepanto Institute (WATCH MIN 9 to 43) Regarding Abortion

Prayer for Our Nation