Florida’s Legal Maneuvers Obscure Abortion’s Intrinsic Evil in Planned Parenthood Lawsuit
Catholic News Agency reports Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has filed a $350 million lawsuit against Planned Parenthood for falsely advertising chemical abortion pills as “safer than Tylenol.” The lawsuit cites a study showing 4% hospitalization rates and 36 deaths linked to mifepristone since 2000. Uthmeier claims the organization prioritized profits over women’s health, with alleged 500% profit margins on abortion drugs. The case invokes Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, seeking $10,000 fines per violation.
Reduction of Abortion to Consumer Safety Violation
The lawsuit’s narrow focus on physical complications betrays a naturalistic worldview diametrically opposed to Catholic moral theology. While accurately noting that “one in 25 women end up in the hospital” after chemical abortions, the legal framework reduces the crime of abortion to mere consumer protection violation. This mirrors the conciliar sect’s abandonment of ex opere operato (by the work performed) sacramental theology in favor of anthropocentric pastoralism.
Pius XI’s encyclical Casti Connubii (1930) condemned abortion as “the direct murder of the innocent” regardless of maternal health outcomes. The current legal strategy echoes the modernist error condemned in the Syllabus of Errors: “The Church has not the power of using force” (Proposition 24). By framing abortion as a product liability issue rather than crimen nefandum (unspeakable crime), Florida’s authorities implicitly accept the conciliar sect’s relativistic morality.
Silence on Spiritual Catastrophe
Nowhere does the article mention the eternal consequences for those involved in abortion – a glaring omission revealing the conciliar sect’s abandonment of eschatological truth. The Catechism of St. Pius X teaches: “He who commits abortion incurs excommunication latae sententiae and the eternal fire of hell unless he repents.” This lawsuit’s exclusive focus on temporal harms ignores the supernatural reality that:
“Every soul that dies in the state of mortal sin without perfect contrition is damned for eternity” (Dogma of Hell, Council of Lyons II).
The article’s celebration of Uthmeier as a “practicing Catholic” while omitting his duty to prosecute abortionists under criminal law demonstrates the conciliar sect’s corruption of justice. St. Augustine’s axiom Remota iustitia quid sunt regna nisi magna latrocinia? (Without justice, what are kingdoms but great robberies?) applies here – a state that fails to punish child-murderers loses legitimacy.
EWTN’s Complicity in Naturalism
EWTN’s uncritical platforming of Uthmeier illustrates the neo-church’s embrace of natural law arguments divorced from Catholic integralism. The network’s praise for lawsuits based on consumer protection statutes rather than divine law confirms Archbishop Lefebvre’s warning that:
“They have accepted the principles of the Revolution. They have accepted religious liberty, the new definition of human rights, the new definition of the Church’s role in society.” (Spiritual Journey, 1985)
Nowhere does EWTN’s coverage demand the full restoration of Canon 2350 §1 requiring excommunication for abortionists or the enforcement of Psalm 94:10 (“He that chastiseth nations, shall he not rebuke?”). This silence proves the conciliar sect’s adherence to the condemned proposition: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Syllabus of Errors, Proposition 55).
Theological Bankruptcy of Safety Arguments
Focusing on abortion drugs’ physical dangers implicitly concedes that safe infanticide would be morally acceptable – a diabolical premise. The article notes Planned Parenthood’s “500% profit margin” without condemning their sacrilegious parody of Christ’s cleansing of the temple (John 2:15). This omission reflects the conciliar sect’s abandonment of Quas Primas (1925), where Pius XI established Christ’s social kingship, declaring:
“When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.”
Florida’s lawsuit represents the pitiful remnant of natural law in a society that has rejected Regnum Christi. Until civil rulers enforce the Lex Christi by banning all abortions and punishing abortionists as murderers, such legal actions remain fig leaves covering structural apostasy.
Source:
Florida announces $350 million false advertising lawsuit against Planned Parenthood (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 08.11.2025