Writing as a Catholic, who fully understands that the right to life of every conceived child is the very underpinning of all other rights, I am heartened by the announcement today by the US Council of Catholic Bishops.  This weekend, the Bishops have called for every single mass in every single American parish to be alerted to their stalwart opposition to Nancy Pelosi’s healthcare reform bill.

The bill, of course, contains national coverage for abortion.  As most fully understand, leftists have always considered complete, unfettered access to abortion to be a part of “health care.” The same is true today and it is very doubtful that this far-left Congress, controlled in its entirety by liberal Democrats, will be able to pass national healthcare reform without the votes of these strident abortion proponents.

Interestingly enough, the Soviet Union was the first to legalize abortion. By the end of its existence, in the USSR upwards of 70% of all pregnancies ended in abortion.  This proved to be a demographic nightmare, producing increasingly small generations of young workers, and played perhaps the largest part in the demise of the USSR.  Yet, other countries jumped on the idiot’s bandwagon with the Soviets and by the mid-1970s abortion was not only legal, but being encouraged on various “humanitarian” grounds around the world.

Even if one completely ignores the very real fact that every single walking-around human being is an ex-embryo and an ex-fetus, who would not be here either if his mother had not carried him to term after his conception — even if one completely ignores the fact that abortion has become a genocide far larger in scope than the Nazis and even the communists perpetrated — even ignoring all that, abortion so disturbs the natural demographic patterns of a society that none can survive too long after it is introduced.  Unless a society maintains a birth rate of 2.1 per childbearing female, then that society will certainly die from pure attrition.  Many of America’s problems in this current time can be directly traced to our callous murder of 50 million of our own offspring since 1973.  Creatures who devour their own children should not expect a rosy future.  That’s just plain old common sense.

Of course, there are hosts of other reasons to oppose the national healthcare insanity.  I, for one, am happy to see this staunch opposition from our own Bishops.  Better late than never.  Now, if they would do us the favor of excommunicating Pelosi, Kerry and Biden, I could sleep a bit better too.

Here is the info on the Bishops actions in opposition to national healthcare:

http://www.catholic.org/politics/story.php?id=34735