You can’t make this stuff up.
Item One: Given the porous nature of our border with Mexico and the many poor Latin American nations to Mexico’s south, illegal immigration in this country has become a serious concern, to say nothing of a political battle in Congress and the White House. Still, there are many good Samaritans out there who put the legalities and politics aside and focus on helping these poor and vulnerable in any way they can. So when some 60,000 unaccompanied minors — we’re talking children and teenagers mostly — illegally crossed into America last year, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, partnering with the federal government, began ministering to these illegal immigrants, providing food, shelter and medicine.
And then the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed suit, claiming that because this Catholic organization did not offer contraception or abortion services to these unaccompanied minors in their care, this partnership with the federal government must be dissolved, and the ministry halted. The lawsuit is pending, as is a previous lawsuit filed by the ACLU against the same Catholic Bishops organization, which also failed to provide contraception and abortion services to those victims of human trafficking it was also ministering. Given that the most fundamental principle of the Catholic faith with respect to human life is that it begins at conception, the likelihood of Catholic Bishops offering contraception and abortion services is somewhere around zero.
Item Two: Michelle Wilkins, an expectant mother from Longmont, Colorado, was almost eight months into her pregnancy when she saw an ad on Craigslist offering baby clothes for sale at reasonable prices. Dynel Lane, a former nurse’s aide with mental issues, had posted the Craigslist notice, and when Wilkins showed up at Lane’s home, Lane attacked her, stabbing her in the belly and cutting the baby out of her womb. Bleeding profusely, Wilkins managed to call 911, crying “She cut me! I’m pregnant!” Unfortunately, when police arrived at the scene, Wilkins’ baby was dead.
Lane was subsequently arrested and charged with several crimes, but murder was not one of them because, under Colorado law, an unborn child is technically not a person and therefore causing its death is not considered homicide.
Given the uproar, the Colorado legislature is attempting to pass a law that would change this absurdity — 37 other states have such laws on the books — but the abortion lobby is fighting this. Their logic? As one pro-abortion opponent of this proposed change in the law said, the real harm done in this case was not the death of an unborn baby, but the possible threat to “reproductive freedom.”
Whether you are pro-choice or pro-life, both of the above seem to me to be very wrong.
