Abortion Extemism in Albany, As Usual

1. Well, this certainly clarifies things. Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith announces that at a time of desperate budget problems, passing a "pro-choice" agenda is a priority item for the NY State Senate. He added that the Legislature "must pass" the "Reproductive Health Act" and the "Healthy Teens Act. Perfect -- in a time of desperate fiscal crisis, the new Senate leadership bows before the altar of Moloch.

2. You MUST COMPLY with the Culture of Death or it will stop you from doing anything remotely good. Now the ACLU is suing to stop Catholic agencies from helping sex trafficking victims, because they don't provide them with condoms, emergency contraception and abortion. That's right -- they think the way to help exploited women is to facilitate the exploitation (i.e., contraceptives) and to raise the abuse to the next level (abortion). Thanks to the ACLU, all the compassion of the Evil One is on full display.

3. Okay, a media-savvy woman pulls a publicity stunt, says that she wants to raise money for a graduate degree by claiming that she is auctioning her sexual services to the highest bidder. (Of course, she says she's selling her "virginity", but if she's doing this, then that's long gone, at least spiritually) The salacious media of course picks up on it and gladly splashes it in the papers. Given the way our culture has been going, this will probably be the premise for a game show in the near future.

4. Yet another study demonstrating the link between hormonal contraceptives and breast cancer. And yet again, there is virtually no chance that this will be publicized in the media or that it will change medical practice.

5. The Episcopal Church really is in very sad shape. Their bishop of New Hampshire, who is openly homosexual and who is at the forefront of their revisionist wing, will give a prayer of some kind at one of the inaugural events. He claims to be horrified at how "specifically and aggressively Christian" such prayers have been in the past, and says he will pray instead to "the god of our many understandings" (is that the same God who is "the Way, the Truth, and the Life"?). What can you say, except that we should pray for the remaining Christians in the Episcopal Church.

6. Posted yesterday on my official ArchNY blog on our State Senate's new leadership and their unwavering commitment to abortion and contraception.