With Election Day less than 90 days away, now is the time to get active and start advocating against Prop. 1, the attempt to enshrine abortion rights into the state constitution.The California Catholic Conference has resources available in English and Spanish to assist your parish in raising awareness and encouraging voter registration and participation this fall, including:
Language from the Pew Card:
Proposition 1 is a worst-case scenario for abortion in California. It is an expensive and misleading ballot measure that allows unlimited late-term abortions — for any reason, at any time, even moments before birth, paid for by tax dollars.
Prop 1 isn’t needed. Sadly, California already has some of the most permissive abortion laws in the nation, but with reasonable limits on late-term abortions — which will still be allowed without the amendment for the life and health of the mother. Prop 1 destroys this common-sense limit.
California does not limit state spending on abortion, and with thousands more traveling from other states, the cost will be in the hundreds of millions. Don’t hand lawmakers a blank check to pay for abortions, and don’t let them make California an “abortion sanctuary.”
Vote “No” On Prop 1
The above comes from an August 16 email from the California Catholic Conference.
Like many, I always assumed that Roe v Wade would not be overturned, due to the “right to privacy” having been established for so long. What Justice Thomas and Alito did was bring the issue of “right to privacy”, be it about the choice to make an abortion, or about a couple to use contraception, or to marry, to the most fundamental issue of what justice is, the weighing of rights. When those who pushed for the “right” to choose abortion would claim this is based in the 14th Amendment and “due process”, Thomas turned this point to it’s most fundamental meaning, therefore, one must weigh the rights of a person to choose an abortion vs the right of the child to life, and the weight of that child’s rights upon the parents to raise that child in a stable situation for the child’s well being.
Therefore, by weighing the rights of those concerned, be it through “due process” that the 14 Amendment mentions, or “rights not enumerated” that the 9th Amendment mentions, reasoning used to justify the “right to privacy” for adults to choose abortion or marry whom they want or even for contraception, yet, what Justices Thomas and Alito have pointed out, “due process” and “rights not enumerated” thus draws us to the ultimate meaning of Justice, the weighing of rights. Thus, the right of a child to life, and to an ongoing relationship with his or her parents, for the well being of the child growing up, and for the protection of the meaning of the marriage of the child’s parents, that even as Pope Paul VI predicted, that contraception would lead to the breakdown of marriage and family life, and the treating of spouses and children as objects, as even commodities. Thus, because the rights of the child and family life that traditional marriage bestow outweighs the right of any adult to choose abortion, or change the meaning and significance of marriage, or even for the use of contraception, it is in the interest of the state and for the common good to outlaw abortion, support traditional marriage and regulate the selling of contraception as the state regulates any other drug.
As a “media campaign” against Prop 1, instead of debating certain limits to abortion, and accepting that it is legal in California, we should take this opportunity to argue the fundamental issue of what justice is, the weighing of rights, that the right of a child to life and to parents in a traditional marriage permanent commitment for the well being of the child and support of the family’s role in the stability of society, and even in the regulation of contraception, which undermines marriage, the rights of children and traditional families outweigh the rights of individual adults to choose abortion, change the meaning of marriage, or even to contraception
Anytime a politician or ad uses the expression “common sense” I tune out. I know they’re trying to use appealing language, but it smacks of test-group marketing and laziness instead of convictions. Instead of referring to “common sense limits”, which doesn’t make sense because that doesn’t pertain to common sense, they should refer to “reasonable limits”.
Same with the expression “blank check”.
Regardless, Prop 1 will pass. This is a futile effort. And too little too late from the bishops. Maybe if they excommunicated politicians who enacted abortion legislation the faithful would take their moral voice more seriously. Who’s gonna excommunicate Newsom?
Here’s the truth… the bishops don’t really care about this law. They are having a minimal PR campaign against it because it’s “obligatory” for them to appear to do something to oppose it, even if it won’t be effective. If the bishops cared about opposing abortion, they wouldn’t have abortion-supporting presidents of their Catholic schools, as is the case at Archbishop Mitty in San Jose, and you can bet at least twenty others in the state.
The emperor has no clothes.
Will the promotional materials be provided in Latin for the TLM communities?
Don’t know…will the provided promotional materials have a lot of pictures for the progressive communities (if they hit them on a day they’re actually at Mass)?
Hmm. Are you suggesting the promotional materials need to be different for the TLM communities? Do you expect the promotional materials to be printed in….Latin?
You probably don’t need promotional materials in the TLM communities.
What a cheap shot!!
The supposed motivation behind the Dobbs decision was to return the question of abortion to the people. Well, folks, ya got what ya paid for.
The legal reasoning is that the Constitution does not provide for an individual right to abortion, so the invented right in the wrongly-decided Roe v. Wade ruling had to be reversed. As a consequence, it becomes a matter for legislatures to decide about.
The Constitution also does not provide for a right to same-sex marriage. That needs to be overturned next. Can’t wait.
We know. We’re getting more dead brown and black babies.
if even one life was saved due to the braking effect of Dobbs on abortions, what we got was well worth it. it seems that many lives were saved, even if the tide comes back in.The Immaculate Heart never loses.We just don”t live long enough to see all the victories.
Oooof, spare us YFC….as if the meat grinder that is the State of California actually needed a constitutional amendment to target the poor and minority communities with the death of their children, all the time gaslighting them by telling them it’s ‘healthcare’. It has been full steam ahead on blacks and Hispanics for over 40 years and that’s not changing.
This is grandstanding and the most perverse virtue signaling by the governor yet.
Why is there so much hatred for humanity in California? Especially for the poor and vulnerable? Because the progressive white elite want to be able to indulge themselves in their material opulence without having their buzz harshed with seeing the destitution they’ve created, that’s why.
YFC supports sodomy and abortion but thinks he is a Catholic in good standing.
I don’t support abortion
What would it take for a Catholic “leader” promoting mass murder to be excommunicated?
Please bishop(s), fulfill your high calling and do the right thing, for the sake of Mr. Newsom and all who are watching.
Our bishops have the duty to tell Catholics, “Abortion is killing a helpless, unborn child in the mother’s womb! Abortion is a mortal sin! And you will be excommunicated for it!” Our bishops have not been doing their job! They once (before Vatican II) were strong leaders in the Church and in society, for Christ, against sin! Fallen, weak, ignorant, secular laymen will not do this difficult job well, in the public square. Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.. ” Psalm 139:13 “For You created my inmost being, You knit me together in my mother’s womb…”
The “Common Man” in times past, never used to have the power to make huge, important moral decisions, on such “life-and-death” matters, as Abortion— killing a helpless, unborn child, made by God. We used to be led by strong Catholic leaders, and various American Protestant leaders, too. Long before the 1973 SCOTUS Roe vs. Wade decision, I used to think it was a great blessing, that although Abortion might be discussed in a college classroom, and debated philosophically, academically, it was out-of-the-question, to go any further– Abortion is Murder, and not in a “common man” voter’s hands! All the clergy of all the churches, were huge leaders on such subjects, and highly influenced all important moral decisions of the Law. Since the Modernist, individualist movement, of the late 19th century, through the 20th century, (and even before, during the Godless, anti-Christian, “Enlightenment” period, nearly deifying “Man”) secularism and science has gradually replaced clergy leaders and revered, great scholars, in Western culture. The rise of the “Common Man” and his/her (dumbed-down) language, beliefs, customs, decisions, and individuality– has been quite glorified. How tragic, that these decisions are now in the hands of voters– not excellent and powerful clergy moral and spiritual leaders, who lead us all, and speak for God!
California’s #1 export — is people. The ones who don’t leave are aborted/murdered.
Archbishop Cordileone’s letter to the faithful on Prop 1
https://sfarchdiocese.org/letter-to-the-faithful-on-proposition-1/?fbclid=IwAR1OWQfiBvrWcrY4g1k_pWYNZCNGDMo7AipLmv1dhYXE6ZQzBdqe53_gYyg