The Arrogance Of An All Male Authority And The Refusal Of It To Face A Reality They Will Never Have To Experience First Hand

I READ IN the National Catholic Reporter that: 

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco is asking "all Catholics and others of goodwill" to join a prayer and fasting campaign for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Catholic Democrat who supports legal abortion.

She represents California's 12th Congressional District, which is entirely within San Francisco.

What has prompted the prayer and fasting campaign is her leadership on the Women's Health Protection Act, or H.R. 3755, passed by the House in a 218-211 vote Sept. 24.

It codifies the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion nationwide. The measure establishes the legal right to abortion on demand at any stage of pregnancy in all 50 states under federal law.

"A conversion of heart of the majority of our congressional representatives is needed on this issue, beginning with the leader of the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi," Archbishop Cordileone said in a statement Sept. 29.

Let me ask in turn that people pray for the conversion of Archbishop Cordileone and the rest of the US Catholic Conference of Bishops, that they have a conversion to the reality that making abortion illegal in all of the 50 states and territories of the United States will not stop abortion, it will only set us back to the pre-Roe days when abortions happened, very often, only they were done in illicit conditions for most WOMEN, with many being injured, some permanently injured, some dying some being subjected to terrible abuses and blackmailing during one of the most vulnerable periods of their lives.  And the illegalization of abortion not only had that effect, it also led to far more frequent incidents of infanticide, of the murder of unwanted babies who had been born.   To pretend that that experience of the illegalization of abortion is not what we have every reason to expect if it is again made illegal is willful, sinful and evil complicity in what will happen if they get their way.  That was considered acceptable in most states up till Roe was decided, the status quo of that era, allowing that to continue was an act of collaborative evil.

Pray that the USCCB and the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy face the hard truth that the one and only way to prevent abortions happening isn't to make it illegal it is to promote the use of birth control so that unwanted pregancies do not happen nearly so often as they do in our country, in no small part due to the Catholic hierarchy, other religious alleged authorities having suppressed the promotion of contraception, the respect of Women, the encouragement of Women to have full control of their bodies and their lives with the understanding that since pregnancy occurs only within their bodies that it is their right to be the one to make the decision to become pregnant in the first place and that they must exercise the responsibility to control that right. 

I would suspect that Nancy Pelosi, having been a mother, HAVING BEEN PREGNANT, something that no one in the Catholic hierarchy has ever been in the entire history of the Roman Catholic Church, knows more about that than all of the USCBB combined in its entire history.   I would ask her to include the Bishops, the Pope, and others in control of the Catholic Church in a prayer for their conversion from the arrogance of dictators to having the humility to allowing Women to own their own bodies without the coercive interference of the state or a church run exclusively by men.