72 Reasons Not To Vote On Party Preference Alone, Or Where To Vote LibDem!

Some years ago Father Frank Pavone of Priests for Life, wrote an excellent article regarding how we should decide who we vote for, in which he said, ‘If a candidate who supported terrorism asked for your vote, would you say, “I disagree with you on terrorism, but where do you stand on other issues?” I doubt it.’ He points out that you would quite rightly know that this candidate’s position on terrorism meant that their ideas on other issues were irrelevant, and you would choose how to vote on this one issue, which in this case would be of paramount importance. Father goes on to say, ‘So why do so many people say, “This candidate favours legal abortion. I disagree.

But I am voting for this person because she has good ideas about healthcare (or some other issue).” His point is, that if a candidate does not believe in the right to life of everyone, then all of their other policies are irrelevant. To Brexit or to Remain, to have a free market economy or a planned socialist economy, to have the right to buy your council house or not, doesn’t really matter if you have not had the right to be born.

Often we see pro-abortion Labour MPs trying to put amendments into government bills to support their views. As these amendments have come from Labour MPs, the Tories tend to reject them and the Bill passes in it’s unamended form. Earlier this year the government’s Health and Care Bill went to the House of Lords where Liz Sugg, a Conservative Lord added an amendment that would allow abortion pills to be posted to women to use at home. If you have followed this campaign for and against ‘pills by post’ abortions, you may know that the scheme is a cheap, dangerous ploy that increases the number of abortions (profits) and the number of hospital admissions while preying on vulnerable women and offering them little or no support before, during and afterwards. This measure had been allowed during lockdown and the COVID pandemic, as a temporary measure by the Government which it had planned to cease this autumn. The Bill with this horrendous amendment in it then went back to the House of Commons where 72 Tory MPs voted for this amendment. You should at this point have a quick look at how your MP voted on Wednesday the 30th of March 2022. If your MP voted for this you should of course contact them and inform them that you will never vote for them again.

I myself do not live in the Constituency of Westmorland and Lonsdale. But I’m fairly sure that Westmorland gets a number of mentions in my favourite Shakespeare play, Henry V. But here is a funny thing, if I did live in that constituency I would in fact vote Liberal Democrat, while I have never really been accused of being a liberal. The local MP there is Mr Tim Farron, a pro-life Christian who on the 30th of March this year voted against the Tory Lord’s amendment, and thus voted to defend unborn children. It was also a vote to help their mothers avoid the horrors of abortion, particularly the added horrors of abortion at home.

One young women who has spoken publicly of her ordeal, Natalia, who went through a DIY abortion at home tells us, ‘I remember somehow getting to the toilet, it was unbearable the pain, and that’s when I passed my baby. I looked down and saw him, it wasn’t like a heavy period, it was like a baby. I must have flushed it down the toilet and I remember just falling to my knees’ Natalia continued; ‘I just lay in my bed and I was bleeding through the mattress, and I laid there for about three days on my own’ – her mother still unaware of what was going on.

Even four Labour MPs had the decency to vote against this amendment. So there you have it, you cannot just vote for a party in elections, we have local candidates and we need to know where the candidate stands on the fundamental right to life of unborn children. If more than one of your candidates is in fact pro-life, then by all means look at where they stand on other secondary issues and vote accordingly.

Since this article was was written "54,000 women were admitted to an NHSE hospital for treatment of complications arising from the use of abortion pills since the introduction of pills-by-post. Analysis of accredited official statistics shows that is 1-in-17 of all women self-managing their abortion at home." Kevin Duffy

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This article originally appeared in the now defunct print edition of The Mallard. This author strenuously denies that the inclusion of his article in The Mallard, in any way lead to that magazines decline!

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The following article was taken from the Priests for Life website www.priestsforlife.org

You Wouldn’t Even Ask….
By Fr. Frank Pavone

If a candidate who supported terrorism asked for your vote, would you say, "I disagree with you on terrorism, but where do you stand on other issues?

"I doubt it.

In fact, if a terrorism sympathizer presented him/herself for your vote, you would immediately know that such a position disqualifies the candidate for public office -- no matter how good he or she may be on other issues. The horror of terrorism dwarfs whatever good might be found in the candidate's plan for housing, education, or health care. Regarding those plans, you wouldn't even ask.

So why do so many people say, "This candidate favors legal abortion. I disagree. But I'm voting for this person because she has good ideas about health care (or some other issue).

"Such a position makes no sense whatsoever, unless one is completely blind to the violence of abortion. That, of course, is the problem. But we need only see what abortion looks like, or read descriptions from the abortionists themselves, and the evidence is clear. (USA Today refused to sell me space for an ad that quoted abortionists describing their work because the readers would be traumatized just by the words!)

Abortion is no less violent than terrorism. Any candidate who says abortion should be kept legal disqualifies him/herself from public service. We need look no further, we need pay no attention to what that candidate says on other issues. Support for abortion is enough for us to decide not to vote for such a person.

Pope John Paul II put it this way: "Above all, the common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights -- for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture -- is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition for all other personal rights, is not defended with maximum determination" (Christifideles Laici, 1988).

False and illusory. Those are strong and clear words that call for our further reflection.

"I stand for adequate and comprehensive health care." So far, so good. But as soon as you say that a procedure that tears the arms off of little babies is part of "health care," then your understanding of the term "health care" is obviously quite different from the actual meaning of the words. In short, you lose credibility. Your claim to health care is "illusory." It sounds good, but is in fact destructive, because it masks an act of violence.

"My plan for adequate housing will succeed." Fine. But what are houses for, if not for people to live in them? If you allow the killing of the children who would otherwise live in those houses, how am I supposed to get excited by your housing project?

It's easy to get confused by all the arguments in an election year. But if you start by asking where candidates stand on abortion, you can eliminate a lot of other questions you needn't even ask.

For more election related articles and information, visit www.priestsforlife.org/elections (US)

So it is no good just voting for this Party or that, you need to ask all your local Candidates where they stand on abortion and how they will vote if elected.
See how your MP has voted on Life Issues in the past and how your other local candidates would vote if elected;
https://www.spuc.org.uk/ (UK)