It is a trick of pro-abortion legslators to gut parental notification laws by including clergy and other family members as those allowed to give permission for minor girls' abortions.
In IL it is state Rep. John Fritchey behind this scam. This week on the news program Public Affairs, Fritchey mocked conservatives and diligent parents when he said:
I find it intellectually interesting that a number of the folks on the right who are quick to talk about the importance of church involvement in your family are now saying we don't trust a clergy member to give independent advice on this.
Pro-aborts know "clergy" can range from being against sex, drugs and rock-n-roll to practicing homosexual sex, promoting drugs to enhance religious experiences and playing Black Sabbath. Pro-aborts legislators know the U.S.'s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, employs "clergy" as well as sponsors a "pro-choice clergy network."
Pro-aborts know anyone can be "ordained" a clergy member in five minutes, even Fritchey, if he wants to be the one blessing a young girl's abortion.
These people are ludicrous to endorse clergy over parents to make medical decisions for children. Will they next sponsor bills allowing clergy to give permission for other underage surgeries, tattoos, body piercings, and aspirin in school?
When abortion is a sign that you don't trust in God's provision, that you think He was kidding when He said not to shed innocent blood, that you think you don't even owe your own children hospitality much less the wayfarer, you have to be satanic and just pretending to be Christian to be "prochoice." You can't really be Christian.
Which is worse, a clergyman who might be pro-abortion or a father who has molested his own daughter?
Kurt, that is precisely why a girl who cannot tell her parents she is pregnant should have to go to the authorities (a judge).
I found your comment about the clergy - right on. That is, not all clergy are Christians; and "church involvement" is more than a guy wearing a black suit. I think we've all seen Homer Simpson get ordained online within minutes...
Edgar,
Kurt, why not ask, "Which would suck worse, to get hit by a car or to fall off a tall building?"
Though frankly the pro-abortion clergy person is worse because he's leading his parishioners repeatedly into terrible sin -- perhaps hundreds or even thousands of people whose lives he's screwing up and whose spirits he's damaging, whereas the child molester father is doing terrible damage to only one person.
Still, it's like, "Which is worse, Ted Bundy or Gary Gilmore?"
pro life is the only way to go, why kill an innocent baby when you can put it up for adoption