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<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">New York governor justifies legalizing abortions up to birth:</span> I’m not here to represent Catholicism
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<p dir="ltr">NEW YORK, January 28, 2019 (<a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/" target="_blank">LifeSiteNews</a>)
–<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> Governor Andrew Cuomo</b></span> dug in his heels today, defending signing a law
<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>legalizing abortion up until birth while</b><b><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> l</span>ashing out at</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Catholic
bishops,</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><u><b>some of whom increasingly speak of <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">his </span>future excommunication.</b></u></span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">“The Catholic Church doesn’t believe in a woman’s right to choose...I
understand their religious view,” said Cuomo in a WAMC radio interview,
adding, “I’m not here to represent a religion.”</span></p>
<p>“I’m here to represent all the people and the constitutional rights
and limitations for all the people, not as a Catholic,” asserted the
governor.</p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>Last week the governor signed into law a bill enshrining a woman’s
absolute right to abortion, and then called for a city and state-wide
celebration, going so far as to <a href="https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-directs-one-world-trade-center-and-other-landmarks-be-lit-pink-celebrate-signing" target="_blank">order the spire topping the One World Trade Center and other landmarks to be lit in pink</a>. </b></span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Earlier today, New York City’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan </b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">did not mince
words</span></span>,<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> saying<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> </span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>that the abortion bill Cuomo signed into law is “ghoulish,
grisly, and gruesome.”</b></span></p>
<p>“The fact that he’s a Catholic as far as I’m concerned has nothing to do with it,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVi0FYPtRQg" target="_blank">said Dolan</a> on “Fox & Friends.”</p>
<p>“Any thinking human being that would want a baby, allow a baby, to be
aborted right up to the moment of birth...anybody who thinks that a
baby who survives a gruesome abortion procedure and that a doctor is no
longer required to attempt to save that baby’s life – you don’t have to
be a Catholic to abhor those types of things,” continued Dolan.</p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>“This is just awful,”</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>said the <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">cardinal</span></b></span>, “and I<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> don’t know why we would brag about this.”</b></span></p>
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<p>Dolan pointed out that abortion proponents like Cuomo no longer claim
they want to keep abortion “safe, legal, and rare.” It’s
now “dangerous, enforced, and frequent.”</p>
<p>“Do you pop champagne corks for that, drink chablis, and eat brie? Do you light up the Empire State Building?” asked Dolan. <br></p><p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Dolan said he receives “wheelbarrows of letters” every day asking for <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">Cuomo</span> to be excommunicated. </b></span></p>
<p>“We have<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> a governor that brags” about his differences with</b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> the Catholic Church’s teaching</b></span>, said Dolan. </p>
<p>“We have <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>a governor that uses his dissent from </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Church teachings</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>as
applause lines</b></span>,” Dolan said. “We have a governor that takes quotes from
Pope Francis out of context to draw an artificial cleavage between
bishops of New York and the Holy Father himself.”</p>
<p>“He likes this. <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>He likes being the...bad boy when it comes to <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">the Catholic Church</span>.” </b></span></p>
<p>Addressing Gov. Cuomo, Cardinal Dolan urged him, “this is hideous. Do
not brag about making the state of<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> New York the abortion capital of the
world.”</b></span></p>
<p>“This is not an enlightened, progressive posture.”</p>
<p>While Cardinal Dolan has said repeatedly that he does not think <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>
excommunication </b><b>is a proper response to</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>Cuomo’s actions,</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>a growing group
of his fellow bishops have warmed up to the idea.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>Dolan has also been
cagey about </b><b>whether the prominent Catholic politician should be <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">denied</span>
<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Holy Communion</span>.</b></span></p>
<p>“Excommunication is a last resort, and as the Governor continues to
distance himself from our [Catholic] communion, it may, unfortunately,
result in that,” said Albany’s Bishop Edward Scharfenberger in a January
26 <a href="https://insider.foxnews.com/2019/01/26/albany-bishop-calls-out-andrew-cuomo-over-newly-signed-new-york-abortion-law" target="_blank">interview</a> on Fox & Friends.</p>
<p>“My hope is that since his faith is important to him, he will
reconsider the importance of maintaining that communion and not continue
to distance himself,” said Scharfenberger. </p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>“One can put themselves in the position whereby</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>morally <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">they</span> cannot
receive Communion at the altar rail,”</b></span> he added. “And I think<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> the
governor is in that situation right now.”</b></span></p>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Knoxville,<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> Tennessee Bishop Richard Stika and Tyler, Texas Bishop Joseph Strickland have<a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/two-bishops-call-for-excommunication-of-new-york-governor-over-vile-abortio" target="_blank"> both publicly said</a> that</b></span> i<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>f Cuomo </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>lived within</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>their jurisdictions</b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> they would take action and possibly excommunicate </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>the politician.</b></span></blockquote>
<p>Strickland recently said that<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> the new law amounts to “infanticide.”</b></span></p>
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