The following comes from a Jan. 8 story on LifeNews.com.
It’s only January of 2015 but the 2016 election cycle has already begun. Today, Senator Barbara Boxer of California became the first senator to announce her retirement at the end of her current term. Boxer earned a harrowing reputation as one of the U.S. Senate’s most outspoken abortion advocates. According to National Right to Life, Boxer voted against all limitations on abortion during a congressional career that has spanned more than three decades.
One of Senator Boxer’s most infamous moments came during the debate over the gruesome practice of partial-birth abortion on October 20, 1999. In an exchange with then-Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, Boxer asserted that she believes life begins when the baby comes from the hospital.
“I think when you bring your baby home, when your baby is born — and there is no such thing as partial-birth — the baby belongs to your family and has all the rights.”
pressed her further on the issue, “I ask the senator from California, again: you believe, you said ‘once the baby comes home.’ Obviously, you don’t mean they have to take the baby out of the hospital for it to be protected by the Constitution. Once the baby is separated from the mother, you would agree — completely separated from the mother — you would agree that baby is entitled to constitutional protection?”
The exchange continued with Boxer refusing to precisely draw a line between abortion and infanticide.
Boxer: I will answer the question when the baby is born. The baby is born when the baby is outside the mother’s body. The baby is born.
Santorum: I am not going to put words in your mouth –
Boxer: I hope not.
Santorum: But, again, what you are suggesting is if the baby’s toe is inside the mother, you can, in fact, kill that baby.
Boxer: Absolutely not.
Santorum: OK. So if the baby’s toe is in, you can’t kill the baby. How about if the baby’s foot is in?
Boxer: You are the one who is making these statements.
Santorum: We are trying to draw a line here.
Boxer: I am not answering these questions! I am not answering these question….
Sen. Boxer’s abortion advocacy didn’t end there. In 2013, Boxer opposed a resolution calling for hearings in the wake of the Kermit Gosnell horrors in Philadelphia. Boxer claimed the problems at the Gosnell abortion facility were really no different than problems at any other medical clinic. Abortionist Gosnell and his associates were later convicted of murder on several counts and a host of other charges.
Most recently, Boxer vocally opposed legislation to protect pain-capable unborn children at twenty weeks and older from excruciating late abortions. The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which polls have shown over 60% of Americans support, was labeled “extreme and dangerous” by Sen. Boxer….
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Barbara Boxer has been a key contributor in supporting the wholesale slaughter of millions of unborn babies and partially born babies. This is the American Holocaust. Barbara Boxer refused to answer Rick Santorum’s question because she knows that the answer IS you are murdering a baby. Jesus wept two times in the Gospel. He wept over the death of Lazarus and He wept over Jerusalem.
Comment written about Barbara Boxer’s retirement. – Taken from The Jerusalem Post
Poupic • 2 days ago
Who cares if she retires? She is a flaming Democrat supporter of anti- Semite Barack Hussein. She is Jewish? A lot of good she did for Jews. I always voted for her while in California and for the other one, Feinstein who also did a lot of good for Jews. Two typical US Jews supporter of anti- Semite Barack Hussein. When are you leaving too? Anyone else would be better for Jews, maybe they would not support another anti- Semite.
Pray the Rosary daily.
“Rachel weeing for her children for they were not”.
I met Rick Santorum. He is really a good Catholic and also an excellent speaker. God bless him and his family for standing up for life!
Blood on the Innocents on her hands….
“Catherine” is correct: Barbara Boxer is a simply dreadful pox on the reputation of the State of California and of the US Congress. Her shrill, and whiny, defenses of abortion have no basis in anything, except for a woman to have unfettered sex, and to murder her child, even while virtually outside her body.
Senator Santorum is to be thanked for standing up to this harridan.
Of course, many, many Catholics love people like Boxer. Just look at how Cardinal Dolan simply drooled over being with President Obama at the Al Smith dinner; and Abp. Cupich really does not like anyone to say much nasty about abortion. Hard to be invited to super parties, the kind the Democrats throw, if you tell the religious truth.
What is wrong with shunning such senators and representatives. Simply refuse to have anything to do with them, and say so publicly. What a terrible tragedy for millions of unborn to have Boxer in the Senate (along with Biden and Kennedy and Kerry and many other Liberals). Stand up, People. Act like Catholics, not like the dog-meat bishops and cardinals that say whatever is popular and attention getting. And, Dear Reader, you had better hurry; they may be changing the Faith for a long time soon.
Boxer started her career as a radical pro-abortion feminist and the sick people of Taxi-fornia elected her again and again and again!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika and His Church!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Kenneth M. Fisher
And who will the next EVIL person will the CA DEMOCRATIC Party of Death put on the ballot to take Boxer’s place ?
The 2014 CA State Democratic Platform (which can be found on the internet) supports the INTRINSIC EVILS of:
ABORTION, EUTHANASIA (death with dignity), EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH, HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE, CONTRCEPTION;
and SEX CHANGE OPERATIONS with hormones for life.
With the exception of homosexual marriage, the State Democrats want all taxpayers to pay for these.
Freedom of Religion means nothing to these CA Democrats. And they spread their poison throughout the Country at the Federal level.
Some of the worst oppressors of Religion are Catholic heretics,
and most CA Bishops do nothing to correct them including enforcement of Canon 915, and excommunication when necessary.
Either they are cowards or do not believe themselves.
When is the CALIFORNIA CONFERENCE of CATHOLIC BISHOPS going to address the adopted evil goals in the CA State DEMOCRATIC Platform?
What about individual Diocese Bishops addressing these Intrinsic Evils ?
What are they waiting for?
When are the Bishops going to make the CCCB do its job, or disband the useless CCCB? The CA Democratic Platform is evil and the CCCB should say so.
Or are the CA Bishops to wed to the millions of dollars in Federal Grants for the charities of: CCHD, “Catholic Charities”, and CRS. And therefore do not want to offend/bite the hand that feeds them ?
https://www.politicalresponsibility.com/voterguide.htm
Ava,
The evil Loretta Sanchez has her wicked “Catholic” eyes on replacing the evil Boxer!
Will “Bishop Vann” say anything about this? Miracles, and that is what it would take, do happen!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika and His Church!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Kenneth M. Fisher
If you live in the State of CA – here are all your Bishops:
Archdiocese of Los Angeles:
Archbishop José Gomez,
(Bishop Edward Clark, Bishop Alexander Salazar, Bishop Oscar Solis, Bishop Gerald Wilkerson)
Archdiocese of San Francisco:
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone,
(Bishop William Justice, Bishop Robert McElroy)
Diocese of Fresno:
Bishop Armando X. Ochoa
Diocese of Monterey:
Bishop Richard Garcia
Diocese of Oakland:
Bishop Michael Barber
Diocese of Orange:
Bishop Kevin W. Vann
(Bishop Dominic Luong)
Diocese of Sacramento:
Bishop Jaime Soto
(Bishop Myron Cotta)
Diocese of San Bernardino:
Bishop Gerald Barnes,
(Bishop Rutilio del Riego)
Diocese of San Diego:
Vacant,
(Bishop Emeritus Robert Brom)
Diocese of San Jose:
Bishop Patrick McGrath,
(Bishop Thomas Daly)
Diocese of Santa Rosa:
Bishop Robert Vasa
Diocese of Stockton:
Bishop Stephen Blaire
Contact your Diocese Bishop for the good of the Church;
pray for them to do God’s will, not their own; pray for them to have courage.
Encourage them to teach according to the Bible, and the “Catechism of the Catholic Church, second edition” in entirety.
That’s funny. I thought boxer was Catholic.
No, Boxer is of Jewish descent, and many Jewish people carry Ty Sachs (spelling?) disease that affects some of their progeny. It is a horrible disease, and II am assuming that some of them abort the child before it is born, but would it not be better to allow the child to live and find a cure or love it while it is still living? When we start playing God by deciding who should live and who should die, where does one stop? No one is safe any more.
Boxer, Pelosi, Reid, Biden, Kerry — such evil people! Satan loves them. Unfortunately, so do many Catholics…
Somehow Barbara Boxer could not avoid using the word “baby” for both the child inside and outside the womb. Could it be because it is so obvious that it is a human being at that time? As the saying goes “Denial is not just a river in Egypt”. Taking “the Fifth” did not seem to help her. Around and around she goes, where she stops nobody knows. She will still be spinning when God catches her. I would not want to be in her shoes at that time.
I do not believe the culpability is all Boxers, though, Someone in authority may be giving her very bad advice. After all there are three major branches of Judaism — Orthodox, Conservative and Reformed. This is “the elephant in the living room” about which no one wants to talk.
Editor, please post this to clarify. I meant that for the most part there is a world of difference on the issue of abortion between the Orthodox and the Reformed rabbis. The Orthodox Jewish position being more like the Catholic one.
My point was that the Orthodox rabbis’ stand on abortion is closer to the Catholic one, and most reformed rabbis are far more permissive.
Anne T.
I understand your point. A few years ago I was listening to Dennis Prager’s radio show and a woman called in to speak with him. During her discussion with Dennis, this same woman just happened to cavalierly throw out the statement “Oh BTW, I am a Catholic and I’m pro-choice.” The topic they were discussing had not been about abortion but this woman caller made that comment. Dennis wound up the conversation with her and then he told her that she sounded like a “very good and nice person.” I had never called a radio show before but I called to express my thoughts. I told Mr. Prager that I was a Catholic and that I had just heard the previous caller say that she was a pro-choice Catholic. I told him that the previous caller was not in conformity with what the Catholic Church actually teaches. I told him that you cannot be Catholic and pro-choice. Then I asked Dennis Prager how he would feel if he was listening to a radio show and a woman called in to talk with the host and said, “Oh BTW I am pro-choice in regards to those who thought it was necessary to murder some of the Jews in the Holocaust” and then you heard the host tell the woman calling that she sounded like a “good and nice person.”
continued from January 13, 2015 at 9:48 am.
Dennis Prager said that abortions should be rare but that he supported a woman’s right that in some cases it is necessary and that abortions should NOT be done in later trimesters if avoidable. He said that in these cases that it is better to have an abortion in the earliest trimester because it is wrong to have abortions in the later trimester. Then I asked Dennis Prager if he was saying that a wrong or evil can be negated because of (time) or trimesters. I asked him if it was evil in the later trimester for a mother to abort her baby then how could going back a few months make a wrong or and an evil all of the sudden acceptable? I asked him if the truth can change with trimesters such as the truth about the holocaust changing with the passing of months or time? I was trying to ask him if it was less of an evil to murder someone who just arrived at Auschwitz than to murder them a few months later? He then proceeded to defend his position and said there wasn’t a sure answer regarding these difficult choices. Then I asked him “How about the sureness of Moses being given the Commandment. “Thou Shalt Not Kill? I had never heard Dennis Prager become silent but he did and then he went to break and ended the call.
It used to be that all doctors in this country and many others were taught that they were to try to save both the mother and child. It made for fine doctors who even developed the Caesarian to save mothers lives. Now in most cases if the physicians are good, the only time it is necessary for the child to die to save the mother is in an ectopic pregnancy. Because the child is in the mother’s tube it will die anyway, so the tube with the child in it is taken out to save the mother. it is not considered an abortion since the child is not directly killed, and it will die anyway, so the Church approves it.
There never is a time when a partial birth abortion should be done to save the mother as in a partial birth abortion the child is partially delivered, a hole made with surgical scissors in the back of his/her head and the brains sucked out with a machine. Very barbaric.
So far Dennis Prager has stood fast on marriage between one man and one woman, but I wonder if he realizes that it is a child being ripped apart or burned to death by saline in that womb. Pray that he wakes up, and tries to end such practices and help the women with children to choose life.
Prager is a personality on the radio, not a Moral Theology expert, and for all he knew that caller had the morals of Ma Barker. We are seriously wrong to think that because somebody got on the radio – or for that matter, elected to the U.S. Senate – is an expert on any topic. Boxer’s a ghoul, always has been. I voted against her every time I had the chance and so should anyone with a conscience.
We should pray for Senator Boxer, too. Perhaps there is hope for her. Perhaps under that cold exterior, there is still a heart. Perhaps she lost a female relative or friend from childbirth and does not know how to deal with it rightly.
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus make our heart like unto yours. Please heal her heart of its wounds whatever they are and help her to support life, including that of the unborn and their mothers. Please give her the assurance of your love and support and that death is not the end for those who love and serve you. Amen.
We desperately need more excellent, morally-responsible public leaders, like Sen. Rick Santorum! People like Sen. Boxer should not have any public responsibility at all! She shouldn’t even run for dogcatcher– she’d maybe kill or euthanize all the dogs in town, figuring their lives, too, were worthless! And just think of such ignorant, insensitive people like Boxer, running a nursing home! She’d maybe find devious ways, to help old and sick patients die! She sounds like an IRRESPONSIBLE, INSENSITIVE, SELFISH, AND MORALLY WEAK woman!! That is why we need good laws, based only on traditional Judeo-Christian morality, to run our country! Ignorant, insensitive, selfish, morally-weak people, all need: CONTROL!! That is why we have laws, to begin with! We also do not need the egoistic, ignorant OPINIONS, of these kinds of selfish people— they should all be IGNORED, and have no voice at all! The weak and helpless among us, such as the HELPLESS UNBORN— especially need protection, from being brutally harmed, by ignorant, selfish, immoral people!
When you accuse Senator Boxer of heinous things like killing all the dogs if she were dogcatcher or, obviously worse, saying that she’d find devious ways to help patients die, you make yourself to be the one who is IRRESPONSIBLE, INSENSITIVE, SELFISH, AND MORALLY WEAK. Please remember that you are not permitted calumny against anyone, even those you disagree with or even against you believe have behaved immorrally. You STILL have an obligation to speak the truth in charity at all times, and not conjure up accusations against them.
The only thing I said is that some Jewish women MAY (MIGHT) do partially birth abortions for children with Tay Sachs (not sure of the spelling). It is a fact that partial birth abortion is never needed to actually save the life of the mother but is mainly done because the child has Down Syndrome or some other defect. It is not just Jewish women who have partial birth abortions for that purpose, I never accused Barbara Boxer of having one herself.
By the way, Anonymous, there are some scientists and “doctors” now who ARE advocating “euthanizing” (killing to be exact) children born with defects or just letting them die after they are born. That is how far it can go when no boundaries are set.
Linda Marie,
Why “Judaeo-Christian”? Why not just Christian at minimum and Catholc-Christian at maximum?
God bless, yours in Their Hearts!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika and His Church!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Kenneth M. Fisher.
Annonymous Coward,
Learn the definitions of “calumny” and “conjure”!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts!
May God have mercy on an amoral Amerika and His Church!
Viva Cristo Rey!
Kenneth M. Fisher
Kenneth, we call it Judeo-Christian because we got the Ten Commandments from the Old Testament, and from Jesus Christ who was Jewish (from the tribe of Judah).
God bless Sen. Rick Santorum, and his wife, Karen, and seven children! His little daughter Bella, now age six, was born with a severe and rare genetic disorder, Trisomy 18, that can also be life-threatening! BLESS the Santorums! A ROLE-MODEL Catholic family! Little Bella deserved the precious life that God gave her! How many thoughtless, ignorant, and cruel parents, have evilly aborted such precious children??