Religious Leader Tells Planned Parenthood Rally Abortion a God Given
Right
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
December 3, 2009
There should be little
doubt in the mind of any true beleiver in Jesus Christ that the liberal church of
this day and hour will seek the utter destruction of true beleivers even as the
Pharisees sought the wholesale destruction of Jesus Christ, the twelve apsotles
and the early church. – Beleiving in their demented thinking that they are
doing God a service – much in the image and likeness of their sister MUSLIMISM
Washington, DC
(LifeNews.com) --
During the rally yesterday sponsored by the Planned Parenthood abortion
business and other leading pro-abortion groups, Rev.
Carlton Veazy told
the small gathering of hardcore activists that abortion is a "God-given
right." Veazy is the head of the
Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.
The rally was a time for abortion
advocates to rally together to press for taxpayer funding of abortions and saw
a small crowd of just a few hundred people -- compared to the 100,000 or more
who attend the March for Life.
Veazy was the closing
speaker for the Stop Stupak rally and he told the activists they had more than
merely a so-called constitutional right to an abortion.
“Don't let anybody tell you
that religious people don't support choice,” Veazy said, according to CNS News.
“You not only have a constitutional right for abortion, but you have a
God-given right.”
Veazy went as far as
calling on the abortion advocates to “take on” the nation's Catholic bishops,
who have pressed for removing the abortion funding from the congressional
health care bills.
“We are also here to call
out the
“Hold the whole Congress up
and say, ‘If we don't get our way, we will work against health reform,’” said
Veazy. “We in the religious community resent that. We believe that no religion
should carry that kind of weight in legislation.”
The "God-given
rights" comment is already drawing guffaws across the Internet, but it
comes as no shock to longtime pro-life advocates.
The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
represents such denominations as the United Methodist Church, Episcopal Church,
Presbyterian Church (
Veazy himself has not only
sponsored letters calling for forcing taxpayers to fund abortions, but his
pro-abortion position is so extreme that he criticized pro-abortion
President Barack Obama for supposedly seeking common ground on abortion.
Even though Obama has crafted a staunchly pro-abortion record as president, for
abortion advocates like Veazy, there can never been common ground on abortion
because it should be an unfettered right.
"My experience of 13
years in the pro-choice movement is that 'common ground' has become another
term for compromise on reproductive choice," he wrote in an editorial at a
pro-abortion blog in May. "In other words, achieving common ground will be
accomplished by diminishing the ability of women to make decisions about
abortion, whatever the personal cost. That's unacceptable."
"It's unacceptable for
even one woman to suffer in order for opponents of abortion to be
appeased," he claimed.