Outrageously Anti-Abortion

Published Tuesday, October 6, A.D. 2009 | By DarwinCatholic

Sometimes it’s all in the phrasing. The other day I read a mention of the annual Red Mass celebrated in Washington DC which quoted Justice Ginsburg’s explanation of why she no longer attends (though Justice Breyer, also Jewish, attends). The quote in full:

“Before every session, there’s a Red Mass,” Ginsburg said. “And the justices get invitations from the cardinal to attend that. And a good number of the justices show up every year. I went one year, and I will never go again, because this sermon was outrageously anti-abortion.”

Outrageously anti-abortion. Well.

[Doubtless necessary disclaimer: Yes, I’m aware that pro-life advocates sometimes express themselves so vehemently as to shroud the truth from those who might be persuadable. However, I don’t picture Archbishop Wuerl as being such a person. ]

13 Responses to Outrageously Anti-Abortion

c matt on Tuesday, October 6, A.D. 2009 at 10:08am

And I thought Cardinal DiNardo was being a bit too subtle. If only more Bps were outrageously anti-abortion.
Patrick Duffy on Tuesday, October 6, A.D. 2009 at 11:34am

I’d just consider that to be a compliment. 🙂
Tito Edwards on Tuesday, October 6, A.D. 2009 at 11:44am

Justice Ginsburg is a joke. Her politics are 19th century racism combined with 20th century eugenics a la Margaret Sanger.

For her to be upset about the Mass means about zero to me.
Largebill on Tuesday, October 6, A.D. 2009 at 11:47am

Aside from my feelings towards that particular confused justice, I’m left wondering what causes some people to become outrageously pro-abortion. Something ugly must happen early in life to turn their heart so black.
Tito Edwards on Tuesday, October 6, A.D. 2009 at 11:58am

I am wondering the same thing myself about Justice Ginsburg.
DarwinCatholic on Tuesday, October 6, A.D. 2009 at 11:59am

I should be clear: I like that we’re called “outrageously anti-abortion”. What shocking thing will she discover Catholics to be next? “appaulingly religious”? “ridiculously devout”?
American Knight on Tuesday, October 6, A.D. 2009 at 12:16pm

“Exremely loving”, “fundementally aware of our own failings”, “severely respectful of legitimate authority”, “outrageously seeking Justice”, “radically forgiving”, etc. etc.

Wow, those Catholics are just too extreme. We should become more lukewarm and mediocre so that we’ll appeal to more people.

A little murder is OK. Rape-rape is bad, but plain old rape, hey that’s just a choice. A mild amount of sodomy isn’t really homosexual. Racism is bad especially against ‘health-care reform’, but eugenics is just.

Poor soul. She is obviously not Catholic, but can she even be considered Jewish? If I am not mistaken the Ten Commandments are the same in both Testaments, well, except they are more ‘extremely’ applied by that ‘radical’ Jesus of Nazareth.
Anon on Tuesday, October 6, A.D. 2009 at 12:25pm

I’d suspect that Ginsburg has herself had one or more abortions sometime in the past . . . this kind of highly defensive overreaction is usually the sign of someone who is trying to rationalize their own behavior.
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Gabriel Austin on Tuesday, October 6, A.D. 2009 at 1:51pm

Particularly distressing about Justice Ginsberg’s various comments is this one:

“Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion. Which some people felt would risk coercing women into having abortions when they didn’t really want them”.

What amazes me is to hear from the mouth of Jewish women. She seems not to know which group was the special target of the German government in the 1930s. [I love the “we”. Who is the “we”?
Tito Edwards on Tuesday, October 6, A.D. 2009 at 3:33pm

Gabriel,

That’s the statement that most sticks out in my mind.

It’s interesting how the mainstream media never even mentioned this incident.
standmickey on Wednesday, October 7, A.D. 2009 at 9:30am

Gabriel: that was the first thing I thought of when I heard her use the word “outrageous.”
Gabriel Austin on Wednesday, October 7, A.D. 2009 at 6:16pm

Tito Edwards writes Tuesday, October 6, 2009 A.D. at 3:33
“Gabriel,
“That’s the statement that most sticks out in my mind.
“It’s interesting how the mainstream media never even mentioned this incident”.

Now, now, mustn’t blame the mainstream muddle. The comment appeared in the NYTimes.

Floating in the back of my mind is the Jewish question. Reading the Bible, reading the history of the Jews through the ages, it seems to me that the Jews are falling into the same error. From a highly religious small core, they relax into cooperation with the secular powers,