Sioux City Journal

Human life stands above all issues

Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2008

SIOUX CITY -- The Nov. 4 election is the best chance practicing Catholics/Christians have to frame the environment of our country for our children and grandchildren. While I am in complete agreement with those who say that the most important issues to be addressed in choosing a president are: a) economy/jobs; b) national security; c) health care, d) gas prices, there is one issue that stands above the rest if, in fact, the rest are to matter at all. That is the issue of human life.

If we are to be truthful and say that we are, indeed, “practicing” Catholics/Christians, then it must follow that we will do everything in our power to protect human life from cradle to grave. The lines of demarcation on the life issue can be no clearer than they are in the men running for the office of president. While Sen. McCain has a 25-year pro-life voting record, Sen. Obama voted against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, which requires doctors to provide basic medical needs to an infant born from a failed abortion.

We have a very serious responsibility in the upcoming election and it should be clear, whether Republican or Democrat, that this issue trumps party politics. Please join me in voting for life on Nov. 4. -- Barb Vakulskas

Story Comments

Pariah wrote on Oct 31, 2008 7:46 PM:

" PACIFIC NW , you need to get off the drugs and think for a moment. All those American Soldiers in Iraq Volunteered. The baby being aborted did not. The murderer on Death Row forfeited his life when he took another's. The baby being aborted did not kill anybody, its only hope is to take its first breath before someone sticks a pair of scissors in its head and sucks its brains out. "

Grammatrain wrote on Oct 30, 2008 4:31 PM:

" wierd? "

PACIFIC NW wrote on Oct 30, 2008 3:52 PM:

" GET OVER YOURSELF, THE PRESIDENT IS ABORTING PEOPLES SONS & DAUGHTERS EVERYDAY WITH THIS WAR, OOH WAIT IT'S TIME FOR ANOTHER EXECUTION OF A HUMAN LIFE DOWN IN TEXAS, GEEZ WHAT HYPOCRITES. "

VegasRage wrote on Oct 30, 2008 9:09 AM:

" Pariah I don't take a hard position on abortion. I think people have to live with the decision they make, you can outlaw it and it won't stop it, it will just go underground. You can't stop people from doing what they do, if you can't keep a two year old out of cookie jar when you turn your back, what makes you think you can stop an adult from having an abortion?

My point was and is there are countries in this world that are going to suffer even worse because the global economy is devastated. We are going to see many innocent people starve to death; mostly children who did nothing wrong. So to me because human life stands above all issues the economy is a far more important issue than abortion.

Zimbabwe was just an example, and you chose to get obstinate about it. There are many other countries with the same problem. I don't think as many people will be able to afford an abortion very soon. "

Pariah wrote on Oct 29, 2008 10:28 PM:

" Vegasrage, I stand by my Comments, The fact that they are over your intellectual ability is not my fault. I would ask your pardon however, I did not realize that I was dealing with the Handicapped, for you are truly blind if you could not see the points that I so clearly made.

I might still ask you to clarify what Zimbabwe has to do with Obama's support for Abortion, Partial Birth Abortion and infanticide? "