Catholic bishops plan to forcefully confront Obama

I'm, not sure 8-9 month abortions can be preformed.
I thought partial birth was 3-5 months? Sources? Or are you just promoting Pro-life Propaganda?

condom education!!!!!!!!

To blanch: Sources please! Sorry, I don't see the Catholics out there doing much except trying to increase their own ranks. And, do you think their policy of no birth control, no abortion is really helping? Especially in Africa? We've had 8 years of Global Gag Order and it hasn't done anything but create more misery and hardship for people.

To Synclaire:
If you knew anything about development work and the world in general you would know that they are possibly the biggest voices of the poor including "alive children who are dying daily because of starvation, poverty, war, disease", women who have no choices over their bodies and also unborn children who have no choice over their own lives.
And if you think abortions at 8/9 months are a myth, well that shows your lack of awareness of what goes on in the world.

Synclaire, I agree with every single word that you wrote above. Thanks for stating things so clearly and succinctly.

Who are these mythical people out there getting abortions at 8/9 months and where are the doctors who are performing them? It's total scare-tactics from the anti-choice community. As for Catholics, they, just like every other religious wing nut should stay the hell away from womens rights. Not their body, not their choice! Why aren't they more concerned with the alive children who are dying daily because of starvation, poverty, war, disease, etc etc etc.

and after confronting Obama, they'll forcefully confront little children.

Coming from the Philippines, I've seen first hand how much havoc the Catholic clergy can wreak on a population. I can remember some years back when the Philippine government attempted to have a condom campaign to control the run-away population growth, the bishops in the country rallied the masses for a counter campaign.

As of 2000, population was 76,504,077.
As of 2008, population is 88,570,000.

And most of the population's in the rural areas, which comprises about 95% of the country! In 2006, almost 27.6 million people lived below the Philippines' poverty threshold. This represents 26.9 per cent of Philippine families and 32.9 per cent of the population. According to international data, 44 per cent of the population subsisted on US$2 or less a day.** And the bishops are still holding their ground because "God told men to multiply."

The country's already exhausted resources are being pushed more beyond it's limits by the population explosion. That includes education, food, petrol, etc.

The sad part is the sheeple in the Philippines are swayed much more easily. Never ever let this group have any say in anything. Maybe we ought to have a campaign reminding humanity of the Dark Ages when the Church's influence was at it's height?

**http://www.ausaid.gov.au/country/country.cfm?CountryID=31

RE: The above posts but also in general...
I think the question to ask is why are so many women getting pregnant unwillingly and to tackle those causes.
Legalising abortion masks the problem, it doesn't solve it.

Sumiboom, The two posts that you have written above are very good. I hope that everyone reads them, and, more importantly, that everyone clicks on the BBC link and reads the article on the effects of banning abortion and limiting birth control in Latin America.

The person that posted this article clearly didn't read it properly. Obama has never suggested infanticide, which is what killing a baby born after 8-9months is.

Abortion, on the other hand, is a right that every woman should have the right to CHOOSE to do, within the legal time limit. There are a million valid reasons women make the hard choice of aborting an unborn child, including rape, economic hardship and mental disorders.

Abortion made illegal only leads to more maternal deaths. Women need this option in a way that a celibate old man living in a palace in Europe will never understand.

bring it, ¢hildfuckers.

P.S. Don't shove your fairy tale "religions" down my throat. Especially one led by a king that you call a pope.

Let them confront Obama. It's not his job to appease the clergy. It is his job to appease the American people and Americans support for abortion is above 60%. Hell, American Catholics support for abortion is at 50% and it's their clergy making all the noise. So welcome to the Pro-Choice America = )

Killing a fetus is wrong for the same reason killing adult humans is wrong. It robs us of a future of value.

I am a recovering catholic that was raught with fear and guilt as a young child, i am still in counsling. These assholes need to back off and sit down with the rest of us freaks and wait your turn cause you don't manage the keys to heaven you friggen touchers.wow do i sound ugly?no more baby's for you, hat wearin club totin pagans.Oh man that just sounds a little angry to me......

fine, a baby is a baby even if it still looks like a frog's embryo, fine, there are cells that "beat" like a heart, fine its a human being, even without brain activity, but ok, fine, its a human being. fine, its been 10 days after the literal conception and you consider that ball of cells a human being, fine

there is no way to draw a line on the sand without it being blurry, UNDERSTOOD, then WHAT ABOUT THE MORNING AFTER PILL?!?

im stopping now, got a little upset.

do onto others as you would want done onto you!

ok, im stopping now.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

first, sushi bandit. awesome response, thanks for setting this straight.

second. why should the pope have any say in our government policies.

I think the Catholic bishops need to crawl, in penance, on their knees from DC to Boys Town Omaha, and back before they start confronting anyone about anything. In fact, take two laps fellers.

So are they suggesting that Obama is the first president that legalized partial birth abortions - please -why now! the issue is not to save the mother sometimes people just wait along time to decide or get the money to do it. I've seen pictures I wasn't prepared for what i saw.

the Pope should had done same when the iraq war started which led to millions of lives lost

letting a human die while it can be saved is against the oath that doctors take so im not really sure if there is going to be much of that going on.