[John K. Matyi]  Ecuador voters approved a constitutional amendment that may open the door to abortion. Remember, it was the US "Right to Privacy" legislation that opened our door to an American "Abortion Holocaust." This Ecuadorian constitutional amendment will guarantee "the right to freely make responsible and informed decisions about one's health and reproductive life" A lot more transparent than a right to privacy which we all thought would end with the right for privacy for a married couple behind the closed door of their bedroom. This law went from the use of contraceptive devices to the murder of over 40 Million babies.

Ecuador Voters Approve Constitution Catholic Church Opposed Over Abortion

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
September 28, 2008

Quito, Ecuador (LifeNews.com) — Voters in Ecuador, a strongly pro-life Catholic nation, approved a new national constitution that the Catholic Church had opposed because it worried would open the door for legalized abortion. The opposition earned Catholic and pro-life leaders death threats and other intimidation during the campaign.

The pro-life advocates opposed the new constitution for the South American nation because it includes the phrase "reproductive rights" that pro-life advocates have long pointed to as a code word for abortion.

The right to life of unborn children is included in the document, but early drafts did not say human life begins at conception.

The final version says life "begins with conception" but also guarantees "the right to freely make responsible and informed decisions about one's health and reproductive life" — which can easily be used by abortion advocates in courts to try to overturn the nation's pro-life laws prohibiting abortions.

However, on Sunday, residents of the nation overwhelmingly approved the new constitution, which expands the power of left-wing President Rafael Correa's powers.

Correa addressed the concerns in a speech after the vote, according to AFP, saying, "Let's see if the new constitution is pro-abortion ... Let's see if all that is true."

During the debate leading up to the vote, Archbishop Antonio Arregui Yarza and Amparo Medina, president of Ecuador's Pro-Life Action Foundation, received death threats.

In one of the recent incidents of intimidation, Medina received a shoebox in the mail containing a dead rat and the message "death to prolifers" and also had a long letter containing death threats nailed to the door of her home.

The letter contained the message, "Remember that accidents exist, remember that accidental deaths happen daily in our country. Do not continue your anti-woman ... campaign ... death to traitors, death to those who oppose the nation."

In another incident, Catholic officials found the severed head of a dog with a communion wafer in its mouth in a Catholic chapel as a warning to clergy who dare to speak out against the constitution.

So what is the message here for the US? In the United States we have Freedom of Speech which allows some people to try and destroy a person based on their beliefs with words instead of actions. In the communication age that is a very effective tool. The left-wing critics of Governor Sarah Palin, a woman with over an 80% approval rate in her state has been attacked by the MSM, left-wing politicians, and the so-called woman rights groups to the point where some attacks have been called "Psychotic" by Fox News.

For this entire election cycle we have been told that "Words Matter" by the political pundits. My premise is that words do matter. They can help you win an election, or they can destroy a career. They can be very positive or very negative. I believe the reader can agree that this is a good example of the type of 'message I am referring to:

Palin appeals to "the white trash vote" with her "toned-down version of the porn actress look,". "Husband Todd looks like a roughneck... What normal father would want Levi "I'm [Bleeping] redneck' Johnson prodding his daughter?"—-Heather Mallick, CBC -  September 5, 2008

When we hear that someone was sent a message in this country we assume it was a letter, an email, or a TV ad that 'delivers' that message. In Ecuador, their 'message' "was received [in] a shoebox in the mail containing a dead rat and the message "death to prolifers,"  In another incident [message] Catholic officials found the severed head of a dog with a communion wafer in its mouth in a Catholic chapel as a warning to clergy who dare to speak out against the constitution [abortion].  My premise is that both method 'of delivering a message' can be equally effective and destructive. I am not recommending that we should no longer have Freedom of Speech, but there must be a price to pay for hateful, divisive, untruths perpetuated by the MSM and government officials.

Was it not the Communists and Marxist dictators who believed that "The end justifies the means?" Have we moved slowly in that direction in America? As usual, I'll report. You decide.