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Somehow seeing the quotation that Jane Smith had posted in what I guess is called "meme" form, caused me not to read it carefully. Today I did and was very impressed. I couldn't copy it from her posting, so I went elsewhere on the web to find it and quote it. I had never heard of Sister Joan Chittister, but what I read about her impressed me very much. She is my kind of person.
I never posted about the recent death of Father Daniel Berrigan. Link...http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/nyregion/daniel-j-berrigan-defiant-priest-who-preached-pacifism-dies-at-94.html?_r=0
However, I couldn't help but think of the Berrigan brothers again when I read about Sister Joan Chittister. Father Daniel Berrigan and Father Philip Berrigan (who later left the priesthood) lay everything on the line to oppose the Vietnam War and then later wars, Father Daniel Berrigan protesting against Iraq and Afghanistan into his 90's because of his pacifism. He also opposed abortion. But these were men of principle, men who truly valued life and went to jail (again and again) to try to save innocent lives being lost in foreign wars. They were not dictators and oppressors who sat safely in legislatures and made rules for others to follow.
Sister Joan Chittister said, "I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. And why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is."
I am very glad that I saw this. I will remember the phrase, "pro-birth". It is easy to be "pro-birth" if it is someone else whom you are trying to force into pregnancy and childbirth.
I have always been against late-term abortion. In my own opinion, early on an egg and a sperm join and are have no ability to feel. I do not see them as a human being.
I never posted about the recent death of Father Daniel Berrigan. Link...http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/nyregion/daniel-j-berrigan-defiant-priest-who-preached-pacifism-dies-at-94.html?_r=0
However, I couldn't help but think of the Berrigan brothers again when I read about Sister Joan Chittister. Father Daniel Berrigan and Father Philip Berrigan (who later left the priesthood) lay everything on the line to oppose the Vietnam War and then later wars, Father Daniel Berrigan protesting against Iraq and Afghanistan into his 90's because of his pacifism. He also opposed abortion. But these were men of principle, men who truly valued life and went to jail (again and again) to try to save innocent lives being lost in foreign wars. They were not dictators and oppressors who sat safely in legislatures and made rules for others to follow.
Sister Joan Chittister said, "I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. And why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is."
I am very glad that I saw this. I will remember the phrase, "pro-birth". It is easy to be "pro-birth" if it is someone else whom you are trying to force into pregnancy and childbirth.
I have always been against late-term abortion. In my own opinion, early on an egg and a sperm join and are have no ability to feel. I do not see them as a human being.
She must have meant that "meme" had a long "e" sound. When someone on a dictionary site pronounced it, the person said, "meem". 
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