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KnightofChrist

Sigh I have no time for this now, maybe later when I have nothing else to do. Good luck USAir

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Nihil Obstat

[quote name='JimR-OCDS' date='19 July 2010 - 04:02 PM' timestamp='1279573344' post='2145090']
The question in the OP was, "Should abortion be made illegal.

I'm asking;

If you think it should be made illegal, then provide how you would write a law which specifies the penalty for those who violate it?

If you think it should be made illegal, how do you get others to vote a law with the penalties you've prescribed ?

Sorry if my questions on the issue upsets you, but its the topic of this thread.



Jim
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Do you think abortion should be made illegal?
I will accept three answers. Yes, no, and the anarchy position in which you believe there should be no laws whatsoever on any issue. I have a feeling you don't like the third option.

So, if you answer yes, then answer your own question. If you answer no, justify yourself with Catholic morals.

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Mark of the Cross

[quote name='KnightofChrist' date='20 July 2010 - 07:57 AM' timestamp='1279569459' post='2145041']
The Abortion "Doctors" are clearly murder[b]er[/b]s,
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Phixed.

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KnightofChrist

[quote name='Mark of the Cross' date='19 July 2010 - 07:23 PM' timestamp='1279581798' post='2145162']
Phixed.
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Thank you brother.

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SaintOfVirtue

In case you were wondering here's a list of businesses/corporations that support Planned Parenthood as of November 2009.

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3M
Abbott Laboratories Fund
Accenture Foundation, Inc
ACE INA Foundation
Acrometal Companies, Inc
Adaptec, Inc
ADC Telecommunications
ADP Foundation
Advantis
Aetna Foundation
AES Corporation
AGIA, Inc
Agribank, FCB
Air Products & Chemicals, Inc
Akzo Nobel Inc
Albertson's Inc
Alco Standard Corp
Alcoa Foundation
Alliance Capital Management Corp
Alliant Energy Foundation
Alliant Techsystems, Inc
Allianz Life Insurance Co
Allied Corp
Amerada Hess Corporation
American Express Company
American Express Financial Advisors Inc
American Express Foundation
American Express Minnesota
American Medical Assoc
American Standard, Inc
Ameritech Corporation (Now SBC Communications
Amgen Foundation
Analysts International Corp - Minneapolis
Andrew Corporation
Anheuser Busch Foundation
Antioch Companies/Webway
AON Foundation
Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM) Company
Archie & Bertha Walker Foundation
ARCO
Ashland, Inc.
Aspect Global Giving
Astra Merck, Inc
AT & T Foundation
ATC
A-TEK
ATK Sporting Equipment
Aurthur J. Gallagher Foundation
Automatic Data Processing Inc
Avaya Communication
Avecia, Inc
Aventis
Aventis Pharmaceuticals (Sanofi Pasteur)
Avon Products, Inc
AXA Foundation
Bakers Square Restaurants
BankAmerica Corp
Bankers Trust Company
Bank of America Corp
Banta Corporation Foundation
Bartlett & West Engineers, Inc
BASF Corporation
Beatrice Companies, Inc.
Bechtel Foundation
Bell Hibert Associates
Bemis Company Foundation
Best Products Foundation
BF Goodrich Company
Black & Decker Corp
Blandin Foundation
Bloomingdale's
Blount Foundation
BMC Industries, Inc
Boeing</option>
Bonz on the River
Borden Foundation
BP America, Inc
BP (Formerly Amoco)
BP Matching Fund
Braun Intertec Corp
Briggs and Morgan
Bristol-Meyers Co
Brown Foundation, The
BTD Manufacturing, Inc
Bunge Corp
Burlington Northern Sata Fe Railway Co
Burnswick Corp
Burroughs Wellcome Company
Butler Manufacturing Company
Café Latte
CAN Insurance Cos.
Candle Foundation, The
Cargill Matching Gift Program
Case Corporation
Caterpillar Foundation
Celestica Corporation
CertainTeed Corp
Cessna Foundation, Inc >
Champion International Corp
Charles Schwab & Company, Inc
ChartHouse International
Chase Manhattan Corp
Chemical Bank
Cherne Contracting Corp
Chevron Corp
Chicago Title and Trust Company Foundation
Children's Country Day School
Chubb & Son, Inc
Chubb Life Insurance Company of America
CIGNA Foundation
Ciprico, Inc
Cisco Corporation
Citicorp/Citibank, N.A
Citigroup Foundation
Clariant Corporation
Clarica
Clark Construction Group, Inc
CMS Hartzell, Inc.
Coca-Cola Company
Colgate-Palmolive Co.
Community First Bankshares, Inc.
Community First National Bank
Compaq Computer Corporation
Computer Associates International, Inc.
Computer City Supercenters
Computer Network Technology Corporation
Con Agra Processing Companies
Consolidated Papers Foundation, Inc.
Consumers Energy Foundation
Continental Corp., The
Cooper Industries, Inc.
Corning Incorporated Foundation
County Seat Stores, Inc.
Cray Research, Inc.
Crocus Dental Technology
Cytec Industries, Inc.
DEKALB Genetics Foundation
Del Monte Corp.
Delphi Automotive Systems
Delta Airlines Foundation
Deluxe Check Printers, Inc.
Deluxe Corporation Foundation
Digital Equipment Corp.
Display Sales
Diversified Pharmaceutical Services
Dominion Foundation
Donaldson Co.
Dougherty Financial Group, LLC
Dougherty Summit Securities, LLC
Dow Corning Corporation
Duke Energy
Eastern Enterprises
Eaton Corporation
Eckerd Corporation
Ecolab Foundation
E-funds
Elf Atochem North American Foundation
Eli Lilly and Company Foundation
Emerson Electric Co.
Empak, Inc.
Enron Corp.
Envirovac
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Ernst & Young Foundation
ET Nurse Consultants PA
ExxonMobil Foundation
Exxon Corporation
Fair, Isaac and Company, Inc.
Fannie Mae Foundation
Federated Department Stores, Inc.
Fel-Pro
Fingerhut Companies, Inc.
Fireman's Fund Insurance Company
First Data Corporation
First Data Resource
First National Bank of Minneapolis
First Union Corporation
Fisher Nut Company
Fluor Corporation
Fluoroware, Inc.
FM Global Foundation
Ford Motor Co.
Fortis Companies
Foster Higgins & Co., Inc.
Foster Wheeler, Inc
Frontier Communications
Gannett Communities Fund
Gap Foundation, The
Gate City Bank
GEICO
General Cinema Corp.
General Electric Company
General Mills Foundation
General Motors Corporation
General Re Corporation
Georgia-Pacific Corp.
Gillette
Glaxo
GlaxoSmithKline Foundation
Glazco, Inc.
GMAC-RFC
Golden Valley Microwave Foods
Goodrich Corporation
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
Graco Foundation
Great West Casualty Company
Green Tree Finance Foundation
GTE Corp.
Guidant Foundation
Gulf Oil Corp.
Halleland, Lewis, Nilan Sipkins & Johnson
Hallmark Cards, Inc
Harsco Corporation Fund
Hartford Insurance Foundation
Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Company
Hartzell Manufacturing, Inc.
Henry A. Bromelkamp & Co.
Heublein Foundation, Inc.
Hewlett-Packard Co.
Hickory Tech Corporation Foundation
Highland Resources
Highline Distributing, Inc.
H.J. Heinz Company Foundation
Hoescht Celanese Corp.
Home Depot, The
Honeywell, Inc.
Hormel Foods Corporation
Houghton Mifflin Company
Household International
H & R Block, Inc.
Hubbard Broadcasting
Hunter Douglas, Inc.
IBC Foundation
IBM Corp.
IKON Office Solutions Foundation
IMC Fertilizer, Inc.
IMCERA
ING Foundation
Ingersoll Rand Company
Inktek Plastics, Inc.
Interlake Foundation, The
International Design Center
International Multifoods Corp.
International Paper
INVEST Financial Corporation
ITT Corporation
ITW - Illinois Tool Works
JC Penney Co., Inc.
J & H Marsh & McLennan
Javelin Solutions
Jiffy Lube
John G. Kinnard & Co.
John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company
Johnson & Higgins
Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies
Johnson Controls, Inc.
Johnstech International Corporation
Joseph Seagram & Sons, Inc.
Jostens, Inc.
J.P. Morgan & Co., Inc.
Karlsson Consulting
Kellogg Company
Kemper
Kemper National Insurance Companies
Kennametal Foundation
KFC
Kimberly-Clark Corp.
King Controls
Kirkland & Ellis
Kmart Corp.
Kraft Foods, Inc.
Land O' Lakes Foundation
Larkin, Hoffman, Daly & Lindgren, Ltd.
Lawyer's Title Insurance
Leo Burnett Company
Levi Strauss & Co.
Lexis-Nexis
Lexmark International, Inc.
Link Belt Construction Equip
Little, Brown & Co.
Lloyd's Food Products, Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Lotus Corporation
Lucent Technologies
Lutheran Brotherhood
Macromedia
Macy's MA Hanna Company
Manhattan Life Insurance Co., The
Manulife Financial
Maritz, Inc.
Marquette Bancshares, Inc.
Marquette Bank - Minneapolis
Martin Marietta Corp.
Masco Corporation
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
Maurices, Inc.
May Department Store Company, The
Maytag Company, The
McDonald's Corp.
MCG/Healthcare
McGraw-Hill Foundation, Inc.
McKesson Corporation
McKnight Foundation
McNeely Foundation, The
M D U Resources Foundation
MEDTOX Laboratories, Inc.
Medtronic, Inc.
Merck Company Foundation
Meridian Insurance Co.
Meredith Corporation
Merit Oil Corp.
Merrill Lynch & Company Foundation
Metris Companies Foundation
Michaud, Cooley & Erickson
Michigan Bell Telephone Company
MicroAssist, Inc.
Microsoft Corp.
Midcontinent Media Foundation
Minnegasco
Minnesota Mutual Life
MMI Companies, Inc.
Monsanto Fund
MONY Life Insurance Company
Morgan Construction Co.
Motorola Foundation
MSI Insurance
MTS Systems Corp.
Murphy Oil USA, Inc.
Mutual Group (U.S.), The
Mutual of New York
Nabisco Foods Group
Nalco Chemical Company
National City Bank Foundation
National Computer Systems
National Instruments Corporation
National Starch and Chemical Foundation, Inc.
NationsBank
NCR Corporation
Nemadji Research Corporation
New Culture Center in the Midwest
Newsweek
New York Life Insurance Co.
New York Times Co.
North American Coal Corp.
Northwest Airlines
Northwestern Mutual Insurance
Novartis US Foundation
NRG-Natural Resource Group
NSP
NSP-WI
NYNEX Family of Companies
Object Technology, Inc.
Olin Corp
Olive Garden, The
Omron Foundation, Inc.
Ondeo Nalco
Oracle Matching Gifts
Osmonics, Inc.
Otter Tail Power Co.
Otis Elevator Co.
Owen Healthcare, Inc
Pan-American Life Insurance Co.
Pella Corporation
Pella Rolscreen Foundation
Pennzoil Company
PepsiCo Foundation, Inc.
Pfizer, Inc.
Pharmacia Corp.
Philips Electronics North American
Philip Morris Companies, Inc.
Pioneer Hi Bred International
Pitney Bowes, Inc.
Pizza Hut
Plum Creek Timber Company
PNC Bank Foundation
Potlach Corporation
PPG Industries
Precision Industrial Automation
Prentice Hall
Proctor & Gamble Co.
Prudential Foundation, The
Public Strategies Group, The
Quad Graphics
Quaker Chemical Corp.
Quaker Oats Foundation, The
R.J. Reynolds Industries, Inc.
R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company
Radio Shack
Ralston Purina Company
Rasmussen Millwork, Inc.
Raytheon Company
RBC Dain Rauscher Foundation
Reader's Digest Foundation
Reliastar Foundation
Remmele Engineering, Inc.
Residential Funding Corp.
Resource Companies, The
Retek, Inc.
Reuters America, Inc.
Richfield Bank & Trust Co.
Ridgedale Electric, Inc.
RJR Nabisco, Inc.
Rockefeller Group, Inc.
Rockler Companies, Inc.
Rockwell International Company
Rosemount, Inc.
Ryan Construction Company of Minnesota
SAFECO Insurance Companies
Safety-Kleen
Sallie Mae
Sauer-Sundstrand
SBC Foundation (Formerly Ameritech)
Schering Plough Corp
SCICOM Data Services
Science Applications Intl Corp
S C Johnson & Son, Inc.
Seafirst Bank
Seagate Technology, Inc.
Sedgwick James of Minnesota
Sentry Foundation
Shearson Lehman Hutton
Sheldahl
Shell Oil Company Foundation
Sherwin Williams Foundation
Siemens Energy & Automation
Silicon Graphics
SmithKline Beecham Foundation
Sony Corporation of America
Spectrum Colors
Sprint Foundation
SPX Corp.
Square D Foundation
Squibb Corp.
St. Paul Bank of Cooperatives
St. Paul Companies, Inc.
Standard Oil Company, The
Stanley Works, The
Star Tribune
State Farm Insurance Companies
Stirtz, Bernards & Company, PA
Sulzer Spine-Tech
Sun Microsystems Foundation
SuperValu Stores, Inc.
Susan G. Komen Foundation
SYSCO Corporation
Taco Bell
Tandy Corp.
TCF Foundation
Tektronix, Inc.
Telcordia Technologies
Tellabs Operations, Inc.
Temple-Inland Foundation
Tennant Companies Foundation
Tenneco, Inc.
Texaco, Inc.
Texas Instruments Foundation
Textron Charitable Trust
Thermo King Company
Thrivant Financial for Lutherans
Time, Inc.
Time Warner
Times Mirror Company, The
Toro Foundation, The
Towers Perrin
Trane Company, The
Transamerica Corp.
Travel Ways
Travelers Express Company, Inc.
TRW, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.
Turner Corporation
TurnQuist, Inc
U.S. Bancorp
U.S. Bank
UFE, Inc
Unilever United States, Inc
Unisource Worldwide, Inc
United Defense
United Technologies Corp
Universal Hospital Services, Inc
UNUM Provident Corporation, Inc
UPS Foundation
Upjohn Co
US Air, Inc
U.S. Bank Piper Jaffray Companies, Inc
US West and Its Family of Companies
USG Foundation
Vanguard Group, Inc
VERITAS Software
Verizon Foundation
Voyageur Asset Management, LLC
W.W. Grainger, Inc
Waste Management, Inc
Wausau Insurance Co
WCCO AM/TV-WLTE FM
Weisman Enterprises, Inc
Wells Fargo & Co.
West Group
Western Life Insurance Co
Westinghouse Companies, Inc
Williams Companies, Inc
WMX Technologies Inc.
Woodburn Group, Inc.
Words at Work, Inc.
Xcel Energy Foundation
Xerox Corp.
Zelle, Hoffmann, Voelbel & Gette, LLP
Zero-Max, Inc

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I know at least one Kennedteria Catholic who will use this as a checklist of businesses to frequent.

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Vincent Vega

[quote name='Winchester' date='19 July 2010 - 08:54 PM' timestamp='1279587267' post='2145184']
I know at least one Kennedteria Catholic who will use this as a checklist of businesses to frequent.
[/quote]
The problem is...how do you get around some of them? Murphy, BP, Shell, and Exxon all popped out at me on the list...you've got to fill up somewhere.
I notice both the Delta Air Lines Foundation and US Airways, Inc. are on the donor list. The sad thing is that the modern air traveller is a slave to the cheapest fare (which is, by and large, why the industry is the way it is today).

It would be nice if we could avoid all of these companies, but in some cases (like the gasoline instance), we don't have much of a choice.

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Nihil Obstat


[i]Do you think abortion should be made illegal?

[/i]If I had my druthers, yes and I would like it if everyone would accept Catholic teaching on abortion and we could make
a law that is enforceable . But I live in the real world where many do not share my beliefs.


[i]I will accept three answers. Yes, no, and the anarchy position in which you believe there should be no laws whatsoever on any issue.
[/i]

You don't know what I believe so just stick to what you believe and we'll be better at discussing the issue.

[i]I have a feeling you don't like the third option.

[/i]Your feelings are yours, not mine. However, we in the USA don't live under anarchy, but in a country with laws.

In order to make something illegal, you have to make a law and that law has to have weight behind it or else its meaningless.

[i]So, if you answer yes, then answer your own question.
[/i]
I do not believe its possible to write a law here in the USA to make early term abortions illegal and get it through congress.


I do not believe that people in general, would want to see doctors who perform such abortions prosecuted as murderers, for as
I've pointed out before, the majority do not see such early abortions in the pre-viable stage, as murder. It doesn't matter what we
believe.

Our beliefs can only be made into law with the majority supporting the law. So, I don't think its possible in the USA.

[i]If you answer no, justify yourself with Catholic morals.
[/i]
Adhering to Catholic morals and trying to write them into secular laws where the political body as a whole does not accept those moral beliefs'
is not possible, unless you can convince them to vote against their own beliefs.

You could no more get birth control banned even though its based on Catholic moral teaching.

Jews and Muslims make up a good percentage of people in the medical profession, so no way are they going to send their own to prison for
something they don't believe to be immoral.


Today the Catholic Church's moral standing is pretty much scoffed at by the majority of our society, especially in light of the sexual abuse
scandal.



Jim

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[quote name='USAirwaysIHS' date='19 July 2010 - 11:01 PM' timestamp='1279591302' post='2145236']
The problem is...how do you get around some of them? Murphy, BP, Shell, and Exxon all popped out at me on the list...you've got to fill up somewhere.
I notice both the Delta Air Lines Foundation and US Airways, Inc. are on the donor list. The sad thing is that the modern air traveller is a slave to the cheapest fare (which is, by and large, why the industry is the way it is today).

It would be nice if we could avoid all of these companies, but in some cases (like the gasoline instance), we don't have much of a choice.
[/quote]

Do they directly fund Planned Parenthood or directly fund abortions, or do they fund things line the United Way, which may give financial support to PP?

I don't know if PP is a 501c Charity. If not, businesses wouldn't donate to them directly, because it wouldn't be tax
deductible.

Jim

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planned Parenthood is a 501(c)3 organization, with some entities of it being a 501(c)4, which is not-for-profit. Contributions are tax deductable.

i could only find this from 2005..

[img]http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n129/corsetti3/pp.jpg[/img]

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[quote name='MIkolbe' date='20 July 2010 - 11:14 AM' timestamp='1279635270' post='2145411']
planned Parenthood is a 501©3 organization, with some entities of it being a 501©4, which is not-for-profit. Contributions are tax deductable.

i could only find this from 2005..

[img]http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n129/corsetti3/pp.jpg[/img]
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Thanks for the info

Jim

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Nihil Obstat

[quote name='JimR-OCDS' date='20 July 2010 - 08:39 AM' timestamp='1279633171' post='2145407']
Nihil Obstat
[i]Do you think abortion should be made illegal?
[/i]If I had my druthers, yes and I would like it if everyone would accept Catholic teaching on abortion and we could make
a law that is enforceable . But I live in the real world where many do not share my beliefs.
[i]I will accept three answers. Yes, no, and the anarchy position in which you believe there should be no laws whatsoever on any issue.
[/i]
You don't know what I believe so just stick to what you believe and we'll be better at discussing the issue.
[i]I have a feeling you don't like the third option.
[/i]Your feelings are yours, not mine. However, we in the USA don't live under anarchy, but in a country with laws.
In order to make something illegal, you have to make a law and that law has to have weight behind it or else its meaningless.
[i]So, if you answer yes, then answer your own question.
[/i]
I do not believe its possible to write a law here in the USA to make early term abortions illegal and get it through congress.
I do not believe that people in general, would want to see doctors who perform such abortions prosecuted as murderers, for as
I've pointed out before, the majority do not see such early abortions in the pre-viable stage, as murder. It doesn't matter what we
believe.
Our beliefs can only be made into law with the majority supporting the law. So, I don't think its possible in the USA.
[i]If you answer no, justify yourself with Catholic morals.
[/i]
Adhering to Catholic morals and trying to write them into secular laws where the political body as a whole does not accept those moral beliefs'
is not possible, unless you can convince them to vote against their own beliefs.
You could no more get birth control banned even though its based on Catholic moral teaching.
Jews and Muslims make up a good percentage of people in the medical profession, so no way are they going to send their own to prison for
something they don't believe to be immoral.
Today the Catholic Church's moral standing is pretty much scoffed at by the majority of our society, especially in light of the sexual abuse
scandal.



Jim
[/quote]
That's a lot of double-spaced doubletalk. Are you in politics?

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Vincent Vega

[quote name='JimR-OCDS' date='20 July 2010 - 09:39 AM' timestamp='1279633171' post='2145407']
Today the Catholic Church's moral standing is pretty much scoffed at by the majority of our society, especially in light of the sexual abuse
scandal.

[/quote]
So what?
It seems to me that your argument is based on the position "if it can't be changed easily, it isn't worth working towards."
Am I perceiving that correctly?

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