When it comes to abortion, California is like China

Our efforts to foster a culture of life have to include what Pope Francis has proposed as a culture of encounter

Bishop Soto

The following comes from Bishop Jaime Soto’s November Reflection on the Diocese of Sacramento’s website:

It was recently announced with much fanfare that China was officially doing away with its “one-child” policy. Many news reports have recounted the moral and social havoc this ill-conceived government mandate has wracked upon China.

Many on this side of the Pacific may wag their heads at the brutish brutality of China’s totalitarian state, yet the same imprudent tendencies have been festering in the “freedom of choice” climate we experience here in California. Local media has trumpeted Planned Parenthood’s political survival after the release of videos revealing the practice of aborted fetuses being harvested for organs. Planned Parenthood’s public relations efforts are trying to push out of the public mind the searing image of a throw-away culture where the life of a child is considered worthless but the body parts are useful.

Women are manipulated and girls are rejected in a culture that increasingly forces them to comply with unjust laws. California should not be so smug as the cultural consequences of China’s folly come to light.  With one coast looking at another across a vast ocean, there may be more of a mirror’s reflection than we would care to admit.

From http://cal-catholic.com/