Monday, November 28, 2011

CURBING CHOICE IN THE NAME OF CHOICE


CATHOLIC LEAGUE


FOR RELIGIOUS AND CIVIL RIGHTS

CURBING CHOICE IN THE NAME OF CHOICE


November 28, 2011
 
Catholic League president Bill Donohue responds to a New York Times op-ed page advertisement placed today by Catholics for Choice:

 
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"Choice" has no normative value absent an object, but even then it may carry no moral weight. Choosing chocolate over vanilla is a choice without moral consequence. But choosing to abort one's baby clearly has consequences, both for the woman and her child: for the woman, they are traumatic; for the baby, they are deadly. No Catholic can support such a choice. Indeed, in this instance, the very name "Catholics for Choice" is an oxymoron.
 
Ironically, the Catholics for Choice advertisement in the New York Times focuses exclusively on limiting the choices of Catholics: it wants to deny Catholic institutions the right to a religious exemption from healthcare services they cannot in good conscience countenance.
 
Here's another irony: there really is no organization called Catholics for Choice. It has no members, and is in fact nothing more than a well-funded letterhead, sponsored by the establishment. Over the years, its biggest and most consistent donor has been the Ford Foundation.
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One more irony: bigotry has always stained the Ford legacy. Henry Ford was a notorious anti-Semite, and today the Ford Foundation is the most generous donor of anti-Catholic causes. Indeed, the Ford Foundation is so busy working against Catholics that it is currently funding the vile "ants-on-the-crucifix" video at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
 
Contact: office-of-communications@fordfoundation.org


Contact our director of communications about Donohue’s remarks:
Jeff Field
Phone: 212-371-3191
E-mail: cl@catholicleague.org

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