This just shows you how rotten our culture and politics has become in some American circles.
The absolutely deplorable governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, tweeted this out after the Pope suggested the death penalty should be abolished:
The death penalty is a stain on our conscience. Today, in solidarity with Pope Francis and in honor of my father, I will be advancing legislation to remove the death penalty from NY law once and for all. https://t.co/xgeLXZv1WN
— Andrew Cuomo (@andrewcuomo) August 2, 2018
Whether you agree with Cuomo or the Pope about the death penalty isn’t the point. It’s that Cuomo actually proclaims that the death penalty is a ‘stain’ on the American conscience. Seriously?
I simply cannot understand how someone who is okay with the slaughter of millions of innocent babies in the name of ‘choice’ can make such a statement. It’s an absolute absurd comparison, to be sure.
People being put to death by the state have been convicted of violent crimes, and in many cases, egregiously violent crimes. Horrific things.
Little babies have done nothing! They haven’t even been born yet!
And yet this schmuck wants to claim solidarity with the Pope on this issue of the death penalty?
You may not have seen this, but just earlier this year the Archdiocese of New York ran a story called The Governors Cruel Abortion Bill. In it they describe how Cuomo’s abortion bill would repeal the Baby Doe law, essentially leaving a baby to die from neglect:
In our current Public Health Law, there is a section that is called the “Baby Doe Law” (section 4164). Enacted in 1974, this law requires that whenever an abortion is performed after 20 weeks, a second doctor must be present whose responsibility is to take care of the child in case she is born alive. This should surely be uncontroversial – it is an element of basic humanity to provide care to a helpless vulnerable person. In fact, a related federal law, the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act was passed in 2002 by the House by a wide margin and the Senate by unanimous consent.
Yet the Governor’s bill would repeal the Baby Doe Law. In other words, he would deny health care to a vulnerable helpless child, crying for her mother and struggling to survive. He would leave her fate in the hands of an abortionist, whose primary job is to kill her.
This is not an academic discussion. Babies are born alive after abortions and abortionists do nothing to care for them. Some abortionists, like the infamous Kermit Gosnell, deliberately murder them. A study published by a highly respected medical journal has estimated that over 5% of babies survive abortion at 21 weeks and almost 10% survive a 23 week abortion – at a time when many of them would be able to survive if they were given proper medical care. According to official New York statistics, there were 2,106 abortions after 20 weeks in 2015. That means that there could be over 100 and perhaps as many as 200 babies born alive in New York after abortions, many of whom were viable. There’s no way to know how many of them received decent medical care.
This is what the Governor wants to enshrine in New York law. The deliberate killing by neglect of babies who have already been born and who can survive with basic care. To bring us back to the level of the ancient Greeks and Romans, who left unwanted children out in the woods to die of exposure and neglect.
And yet this governor says the death penalty is a stain on our conscience and claims he’s standing with the Pope? How dare he! What a hypocrite!
It’s just so vile and despicable it makes me sick to my stomach.