Cardinal Wilfrid Napier: Abortion Culture Can’t Hope for ‘Jubilant or Peaceable Future’

The mettlesome Cardinal Wilfrid Napier has as soon as again blasted the present abortion-rights culture, suggesting that a society that “destroys its unborn babies with such abandon” must never hope to comprise a truly chuffed or serene future.

The South African Cardinal turned into responding to recordsdata posted on social media by pro-existence champion Obianuju Ekeocha, who illustrious that the majority efficient three days into 2018, the realm had already viewed the deaths of 293,548 unborn babies through “wonderful” abortion.

“I assist all of us of goodwill to train up against this injustice,” Ms. Ekeocha acknowledged. “Label it segment of your mission this year to be unabashedly pro-existence.”

Cardinal Napier answered with a rhetorical question, “How can a culture that destroys its unborn babies with such abandon ever hope to comprise a truly chuffed or serene future, which is the deepest-seated desire of each human coronary heart?”

At the moment later on, the prelate launched one other indictment of the abortion lobby, this time based utterly on an Ohio ad campaign by an abortion provider that calls abortion “existence-saving,” “sacred,” “a blessing,” and “safer than childbirth.”

“To reveal abortion is safer than baby beginning,” the cardinal tweeted, “is esteem asserting ‘existence’ in a grave within the cemetery is safer than existence on the boulevard. On the boulevard you would possibly want to more than seemingly score knocked over by a bus, mugged by a desperate drug individual, or shot by an extremist!”

This isn’t any longer the principle time this cardinal, who’s furthermore the archbishop of Durban, has strongly voiced his firm opposition to the killing of formative years within the womb.

Final January, the cardinal reacted forcefully to President Obama’s farewell take care of to the nation by reminding these that Obama had been a global point out of abortion-on-question as correctly as an enemy of non secular liberty.

Valid now following the farewell take care of, Napier retweeted a different of particularly pointed experiences of the outgoing president and his legacy, stressing the irony of Obama as a “son of Africa” funding unlawful abortions in Africa as correctly as Marie Stopes World, the notorious abortion promoter that works all the plot through African international locations.

Within the summertime of 2016, Napier called for an apology for the endless deaths on the palms of the U.S. abortion trade and, particularly, the disproportionate different of murky babies who comprise been aborted, which he usually known as “genocide.”

Quoting the decide of larger than fifty seven million babies legally aborted within the US for the reason that 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court docket determination (from Planned Parenthood’s beget Guttmacher Institute), the Cardinal requested, “Isn’t this one thing we desires to be apologizing for?”

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