Bishop Soto
The following comes from Bishop Jaime Soto’s November Reflection on the Diocese of Sacramento’s website:
It was recently announced with much fanfare that China was officially
doing away with its “one-child” policy. Many news reports have recounted
the moral and social havoc this ill-conceived government mandate has wracked upon China.
Many on this side of the Pacific may wag their heads at the brutish
brutality of China’s totalitarian state, yet the same imprudent
tendencies have been festering in the “freedom of choice” climate we
experience here in California. Local media has trumpeted
Planned Parenthood’s political survival after the release of videos
revealing the practice of aborted fetuses being harvested for organs.
Planned Parenthood’s public relations efforts are trying to push out of
the public mind the searing image of a throw-away culture where the life
of a child is considered worthless but the body parts are useful.
Women are manipulated and girls are rejected in a culture that
increasingly forces them to comply with unjust laws. California should
not be so smug as the cultural consequences of China’s folly come to
light. With one coast looking at another across a vast ocean, there may
be more of a mirror’s reflection than we would care to admit.
