Bishop Finn: Obama's Words Bring Abortion Dialogue to 'Screeching Halt'

The Church's language on racism, genocide and abortion is linked because the root of all is the denial of human dignity. Link

So it is not out of place to connect them.

So... Charlie, you think it's okay to "legalize" abortion and also have social programs that some how are suppose to educate people in not having abortions?

“We can no longer afford an academic calendar designed when America was a nation of farmers who needed their children at home plowing the land at the end of each day,” Obama said. He continued to say “That calendar may have once made sense, but today, it puts us at a competitive disadvantage. Our children spend over a month less in school than children in South Korea. That is no way to prepare them for a 21st century economy.”

Ya know, we have a speech which essential puts forth the proposition the people of good will can work together even if they hold some irreconcilable moral differences and all Finn want to focus on is "irreconcilable differences".

In America you don't get to become the President at age 46, especially if you're a black man, unless you are an exceptionally gifted politician. Obama's exceptional gift is making his opposition look obstinate, obtuse and out of touch.

In Finn's case, he didn't have to work very hard.

Well, what does it matter how the talking points work since according to Finn no one is talking anyway.

Well, I don't see them as talking points. I see them as spiritual guidance. Yeah...no one is talking. I do believe that in the end it will come to a head. If we work on things like the pregnant woman's support act and start to make headway on some issues it will highlight the horror of abortion as a function of choice. But in the end I firmly believe Obama supports abortion as a function of choice and if we make headway on the other social issues eventually there will be a massive collision on the irreconcilable parts.

I do see Bishop Finn's point. Obama is opposed to stopping abortion fully. Since he supports it as direct choice he would stand behind someone making 100,000 a year with every means to support the child, choosing to murder the baby, because that child is not human and is secondary to the exercise of that choice. If that is where he is coming from, and it is....then any dialog only goes so far and a good deal of it that can be done is surface.

Even things like the pregnant womens support act are not his or related to him in any way. They belong to the pro-life dems and bi-partisan effort that Obama was not a part of when he was in congress. He did not directly oppose it, but he did aggressivly avoid it.

So do any of you agree with me that lengthening the school day and the school year would have a positive effect on teen pregnancy and abortion (not to mention our children's competitiveness in the global economy) by keeping teens busier in the high hormone years and allowing them to become economically independent by completing their educations earlier?

To me, that's a very creative solution, because it addresses a number of problems effectively.

You want to solve teen pregnancy, the drop out rate and youth crime ?

Institute a reasonable industrial policy, start subsidizing post high school education and stand back.

The national service policy that Obama would like to institute would solve that.

In return for national service, students would get college assistance. And, hopefully, after they had worked in public service for a year they might be mature when starting college or trade school.