The USCCB is once again re-writing their statement on political life. In a media release, they gave contact information where you can ask for a draft of the document. I did so, and got a draft of the new document they are working on. …
Here is a sampling – warning, this will be long. Remember, that this is a draft. A well-done draft.
Advance copy
November 1, 2007 by Amy
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An overlooked but important “red button” issue, where we all need to re-examine our consciences re: the criticism that we focus too exclusively on the “unborn” category of the most vulnerable amongst us:
The category of “poor” ought focus on those less than 24 hours old – the US infant mortality rate (5/ooo) is the next to lowest among 36 industrialized nations, ahead of Latvia ~ ~ ~ but don’t congratulate yourselves ~ ~ ~ factor in “poverty” and the USA’s minority babies die at twice that horrific rate (10/ooo)!!!
(page 38 of 58 at http://www.savethechildren.org/publications/mothers/2006/SOWM_2006_final.pdf
And the “Pottery Barn” nation we are caretakers of?
12 Iraqi infants die for every US infant (mortality rate of 59/ooo) placing that country bottom of the “middle income” league with a stat worse than or equal to three of the bottom five “developing” countries.
(Lower table, page 34)
For a poor unborn American foetus, the US is only marginally safer to begin life that the best place in the developing world, Vietnam. What does that say about our priorities? Thirty years after we vanquished the “evil commie” Vietnamese, their babies stand as good a chance of surviving the entrance down their mother’s birth canal as a neglected unborn American?
(based on 2006 data, Caveat emptor for the predictable remedies recommended by Melinda Gates et al ;-] )
My bad –
“US infant mortality rate (5/ooo) is ranked the next to lowest …”
and
“12 Iraqi infants die for every US infantwho succumbs as a neonate…”
Sure, more politics while the Archbishop of San Francisco is coddling homosexuals and giving Communion to men dressed in drag whose only purpose is to mock the Church and insult the Body and Blood of Christ.
Perfect!