DENVER, Colorado, JAN. 18, 2007 (Zenit.org).- Archbishop Charles Chaput is questioning the new Colorado governor’s pledge to restore eligibility requirements for state-funded family planning programs.
Governor Bill Ritter, who ran with a pro-life platform, wants to allow organizations like Planned Parenthood to get state funding, if they can prove the money does not subsidize abortions.
In his weekly column for the Denver Catholic Register, Archbishop Chaput called this “seriously flawed public policy.”
While the archbishop praised Ritter’s desire to improve health care and education and said his State of the State address brimmed with “good will, good sense and hope,” the prelate expressed his concerns about the governor’s pledge.
Referring to a passage from Ritter’s talk, Denver’s archbishop said, “It’s hard to have a future ‘for our children and our children’s children’ without children, and in practice, Planned Parenthood specializes in the business of preventing them.”
“We urge the governor to reconsider pursuing this bad policy, and failing that, at a minimum, to be rigorous in the controls he places on state funding for family-planning services,” Archbishop Chaput added. “No unborn child should be forced to die as a result of this flawed policy — precisely for the sake of the future ‘of our children and our children’s children.'”
PLANNED PARENTHOOD’s main activity is ABORTION, I am situated in Connecticut and Planned Parenthood has hired lawyers to sue an 82 year old man who is an anti-abortionists, Stan Scott of Fairfield, CT, who has been given a senetence of 520 hours of community service and over $800 in fines. ANYONE who says that PLANNED PARENTHOOD’s main function isn’t ABORTIONS is a liar including the public offcial herein cited.
Again, it’s me, George Mougios. I am still in shock at the fact that Governor Bill Ritter, supposedly an anti-abortionists, want to grant funds to Planned Parenthood for their non abortion work. This is like saying, during WW2, that the US wants to grant funds to Nazi Germany for their good works and the money must not go for the slaughtering of Jews.ABORTION is Planned Parenthood’s main business, the killing of babies is their speaciality. Who is Ritter trying to fool?