Rev. Carlton Veazey, president and CEO of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, told a small crowd of pro-abortion protesters that women have a “God-given right” to abortion and that opposition from pro-life congressmen and religious leaders would never take it away.
Veazey, closing speaker at a “Stop Stupak” rally on Capitol Hill staged by major pro-abortion groups such as Planned Parenthood, NARAL-Pro Choice, and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) told the crowd that not only did they have a constitutional right to abortion, but that they had a God-given one as well.
“Don’t let anybody tell you that religious people don’t support choice,” Veazey said at the gathering in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. “You not only have a constitutional right for abortion, but you have a God-given right.”
The rally was held to inspire abortion rights protesters ahead of a day of lobbying for federal funding of abortion in health care reform legislation. The event also served as an outlet for the activists to vent anger at the amendment offered by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) to the House health care bill.
The amendment prohibits any federal money from paying for any part of a health insurance plan that covers abortion and was successfully attached to the House bill in a bipartisan vote.
Pro-abortion members of Congress also attended the rally. They urged attendees to lobby hard against the Stupak amendment to have it stripped from a final version of the bill.
“Make no mistake, the Stupak amendment does not reaffirm existing law – it goes way past it,” said Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.). “It disallows private insurers who operate in the new exchange from covering abortion services in plans receiving government subsidies.”
Calling the Stupak amendment “a stain,” DeLauro said that pro-abortion activists must make legislators “feel your wrath” if abortion coverage is to be preserved.
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Abortion A God Given Right
I suppose the logic goes something like this:
Autonomy is a God-given right.
The decision to abort naturally proceeds from Human autonomy.
The decision to Abort is therefore a God-given right.
But you still have to ask? Which god is that again?
carl
Let’s lobby hard in favor of Stupak. Do I need to ask what church this “priest” belongs to? Minister of death.
[2] oscewicee
Do I need to ask what church this “priest” belongs to?
I wondered that myself. So I looked him up. Veazy is a Baptist Minister.
carl
Thanks, Carl. How did TEC miss that opportunity? It’s rather depressing to think of Baptists going that route too.
Unbelievable
Oh how Margaret would love this moment. A Negro lauding the killing of the unborn. At last somebody realizes that reducing the number of Negroes, is truly for society’s own good. Finally her well meaning lectures on Eugenics are taking fruit. Oh if only all the targeted groups would cooperate with a vision for a better America. Oh well you can’t have everything. Here in one package is a non white feeble minded person reminding us that God (that is God with a big G) loves abortion. Yes Margaret would love this.
Evil does seem to find its own.
God given right! I guess I have the God given right to take him out. This was my first thought, I have to repent as my warrior mentality comes to the top once again-many decades ago I was trained to protect this country and its citizens, including the unborn. When I read about abortions, even those described in the legal opinions, I understand the righteous anger of some, I know it is wrong to play God and make the ultimate judgment call but it hurts to do nothing. There is no fear of God. There will be.
Isn’t Veazy’s Baptist affiliation the Jimmy Carter Baptists?
Don’t worry oscewicee… “Baptist” is a label that means far less than even “Episcopalian”.
It’s almost a rock-solid certainty that this isn’t a Southern Baptist… and if it is, it won’t be for long.
http://www.rcrc.org/about/members.cfm
Lovely picture of the Episcopal Church banner, wot?
Oh I’m sorry, I thought it said “Sleazy”: Abortion a God given right…my bad guys, my bad.
~jacob
Which god? Molech?
He sounds a lot like John Calhoun.
TEC requests federal funding for abortions
http://lifenews.com/nat5742.html
The numbers of abortions that TEc wants to pay for….
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5808a1.htm?s_cid=ss5808a1_e