Catholic Bishops Support Communist/Socialist Government Takeover of Healthcare

"THE END OF THE AMERICAN DREAM"

MEDIA RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
07 November 2009
CONTACT: Katie Walker
540.659.4942| kwalker@all.org

STATEMENT REGARDING CARDINAL RIGALI'S MEMO PROTECTING THE "STATUS QUO" ON
LIFE

Brown: "Faithful Catholics have a responsibility to vigorously oppose
abortion in healthcare, not negotiate the status quo."

Washington, DC (07 November 2009) American Life League president Judie
Brown released the following statement on the news that Cardinal Justin
Rigali will support Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Affordable Health Care for
America Act (H.R. 3962), provided an amendment preserving the status quo
for abortion is voted upon.

"Our Catholic bishops should be fearlessly leading the way towards a
culture of life. Fighting to maintain a status quo credited to the
destruction of 51 million preborn children is wrong and confusing to 65
million Catholics united in the defense of life.

"What Cardinal Rigali has permitted by way of political maneuvering is to
allow an amendment to be heard and watch it be defeated. While our Catholic
bishops will scramble to define their opposition to abortion in the
aftermath, Pelosi will wave Rigali's support for health care reform as
evidence that lay Catholics would somehow be wrong in opposing her bill.

"In endorsing Pelosicare, our Catholic bishops have risked making
themselves political pawns in advancing a culture of death that treats
human life as disposable.

"Once again, this incrementalist approach to abortion will serve to
enshrine in law grave injustices condemned unequivocally by the Catholic
Church. Among these are rationed health care, In vitro fertilization,
embryonic stem cell research, human experimentation, euthanasia and birth
control.

"Faithful Catholics have a responsibility to vigorously oppose abortion in
healthcare, not negotiate the status quo.

"Our bishops, when they negotiate anything less than the full protection
all human beings deserve, undermine the very principles of the Catholic
Faith and destroy the confidence of faithful Catholics across America.

"Our Catholic bishops should point to the unchanging principles and
doctrines of the Catholic Faith, not negotiate a status quo that ends human
lives. Today's letter abrogates those principles. Americans should know
that a truly Catholic position on health care protects human life at all
stages and at all times.

"Negotiation on truth is never a Catholic principle. Truth alone should
inform the consciences of faithful Catholics, and truth demands the full
protection of human life."
American Life League was cofounded in 1979 by Judie Brown. It is the
largest grassroots Catholic pro-life organization in the United States and
is committed to the protection of all innocent human beings from the moment
of creation to natural death.  For more information or press inquiries,
please contact Katie Walker at 540.659.4942.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Politico: Bishops sign off on deal as vote nears (07 November 2009)
http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=85070&N=486&L=3464&F=T

USCCB: Bishops To House: Keep Abortion Funding Out Of Health Care Reform,
Make Health Care Available To Vulnerable (06 November 2009)
http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=85070&N=486&L=3465&F=T



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Katie Walker
Director of Communication
American Life League
1179 Courthouse Road
Stafford, Virginia 22554
540.659.4942