Roman Catholic Bishops in North Dakota opposed state personhood bill which passed North Dakota House;

opposition of Roman Catholic leaders helped defeat historic personhood bill in North Dakota Senate by 29-16 vote

The Vatican / Roman Catholic hierarchy is NOT Pro-Life !!! (Including the Bishops, Cardinals, Pope, Vatican, Jesuit General). Does any thinking American really believe that the opposition and obstruction of these Bishops in North Dakota (like the opposition of the Bishops in Michigan (2006), Georgia (2008), Montana (2008), and Colorado (2008) to state-level personhood legislation) would be sustained without the support and endorsement of the Vatican / Pope ??? Roman Catholic principled pro-lifers like Judie Brown have been betrayed by the false religionists of Rome, including the Bishops, Cardinals, Pope, and Jesuit General.

Steve Lefemine
CCL
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NORTH DAKOTA BISHOPS NULLIFY PERSONHOOD!
Posted: Friday April 3, 2009 at 8:38 am EST by Judie Brown
www.all.org/newsroom_judieblog.php?id=2551
[emphasis added by CCL]

CCL Note: Mrs. Judie Brown is the American Life League President, which she co-founded in 1979. The ALL organization's website (http://www.all.org/) asserts: "It is the largest grassroots Catholic pro-life organization in the United States..."


EXCERPTS below from Judie Brown's article "NORTH DAKOTA BISHOPS NULLIFY PERSONHOOD!":

1) Professor Dianne Irving: "In these times of "accountability", isn't it time that the American [Catholic] bishops be held accountable for the scandalous anti-life policies that too many of them have been forming and advancing for the last 40 years?"

2) Judie Brown: "As you will learn from Mr. Hale, the Bishops in North Dakota did not provide solid arguments for opposing personhood; their position was strictly political."

3) Robert L. Hale: "Four days before the Senate hearing on the bill, North Dakota's two Catholic bishops, Paul Zipfel of Bismarck and Samuel Aquila of Fargo, called a news conference to announce they could not support the bill as written. They offered amendments that gutted the bill in its entirety -- striking every word of the original bill, including the operative word "person." "

4) Robert L. Hale: "The intent of Rep. Ruby's bill was to respond to Justice Blackmun's acknowledgment in Roe v. Wade that the U.S. constitution did not define "person." ... The Justice noted, ... , that if "personhood is established, the appellant's case, of course, collapses, for the fetus's right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the Amendment (14th)." "

[ CCL Note: The 5th Amendment is a better Constitutional reference than the 14 th. ]

5) Robert L. Hale: "Bishop Zipfel has used his office and the North Dakota Catholic Conference to gut HB 1572." "The bishops totally eliminated every word of the bill, including the critical word "person,"..." "... Bishop Zipfel and the North Dakota Catholic Conference..., their actions speak louder than their words. They propose to gut a bill that poses one simple question to the Supreme Court: In the absence of a U.S. Constitutional definition of "person," can a state define "person"? "

6) Robert L. Hale: "For those who wonder why abortion, after 36 years, is still taking almost 1.5 million lives each year in the U.S., the bishops' actions in North Dakota help to answer that question."

7) Judie Brown: "As we ponder the situation that has arisen not only in North Dakota, but also in states like Colorado, Georgia and Montana, where Catholic bishops have undermined personhood efforts, we really need to inquire of them regarding the substantive reasons why they are literally taking indefensible positions. As Mr. Hale points out, it has been 36 years and to this very day not one United States Catholic bishop has ever publicly advocated for personhood. What could the reason for this silence possibly be?"

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Steve Lefemine, CCL: "Dear Mrs. Brown - Please believe your own eyes and ears and good sense ! It was the National Conference of Catholic Bishops which originally established National Right to Life [sic] in 1968. We know that the incrementalist, personhood-bill-obstructionists at National Right to Life [sic] are a major obstacle to ENDING and not just perpetually, perennially, “regulating” child-murder-by-abortion. Even though NRL is officially now an “autonomous” organization, the evidence indicates it is still a "pro-life" [sic] front organization for the Vatican. The Vatican / Roman Catholic hierarchy is NOT Pro-Life !!! (Including the Bishops, Cardinals, Pope, Vatican, Jesuit General). THAT is the obvious reason."

The full article "NORTH DAKOTA BISHOPS NULLIFY PERSONHOOD!" by Judie Brown can be seen at: www.all.org/newsroom_judieblog.php?id=2551

The full article "NORTH DAKOTA BISHOPS NULLIFY PERSONHOOD!" by Judie Brown, with commentary by Steve Lefemine, can be seen at:

Catholic Bishops in North Dakota opposed state personhood bill which passed North Dakota House;
opposition of Roman Catholic leaders helped defeat historic personhood bill in North Dakota Senate by 29-16 vote
- Judie Brown (ALL) article, April 3, 2009 - "NORTH DAKOTA BISHOPS NULLIFY PERSONHOOD!"
- Steve Lefemine (CCL) commentary, May 21, 2009 - The Vatican / Roman Catholic hierarchy is NOT pro-life !!!
(Including the Bishops, Cardinals, Pope, Vatican, Jesuit General)
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/2009-05-21-Judie-Brown-April-3-2009-ND-Bishops-nullify-personhood.doc

The evidence is there for all with "eyes to see" - the Roman Catholic hierarchy (Bishops and above) and National Right to Life [ originally formed by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in 1968 ], are opposed to the numerous past and ongoing efforts to establish personhood for the unborn, and thereby END, not just regulate abortion. For Rome, the primary goal is ecumenism, not protecting the unborn, and the "pro-life movement" in America has been a fruitful opportunity for Rome's centuries-old agenda (since the 1500's) to counter the effects of the Reformation, and to undermine the Bible-believing, evangelical churches and Christians with the heresies of Romanism.

Rome is “using” the “pro-life movement” in part to further its ecumenical goal of religious hegemony, while sacrificing the lives of pre-birth human beings to do so.

The Vatican / Roman Catholic hierarchy is NOT pro-life !

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