{"id":236522,"date":"2020-12-20T11:19:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T17:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=236522"},"modified":"2020-12-18T21:28:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T03:28:55","slug":"singer-jose-feliciano-pro-life-heartbeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/singer-jose-feliciano-pro-life-heartbeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer Jos\u00e9 Feliciano on becoming pro-life: ‘Even if all there is is a heartbeat, that’s life’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jos\u00e9 Feliciano, a blind musician and singer known for his hit song “Feliz Navidad” as well as his renditions of “Light My Fire” and “California Dreamin’,” was born blind in Puerto Rico in 1945. As a child, he immigrated to the United States. As a practicing Catholic, he has performed at the Vatican and met with Pope Francis, but he held onto what he calls his “pro-abortion” view until he first heard his daughter’s heartbeat.<\/p>\n

“I used to be pro-abortion, many, many years ago,” he told the National Catholic Register<\/a>\u00a0(NCR). “I would have called myself pro-choice. But then when I had my daughter Melissa, I went the other way… when I heard Melissa’s little heartbeat on the monitor, I said, ‘Well, wait a minute. Even if all there is is a heartbeat, that’s life, that’s life…”<\/p>\n

Feliciano said that people have told him he was born blind because it was God’s will. He thinks that’s “baloney,” saying, “God doesn’t want his children to be sick in any way. If you have a deformity, it’s not God-made. It’s just one of those things that happens,” he said. “It’s like the blueprint for your genetic copy had a flaw in it. It happens in fruits, it happens in animals, and it happened in me.”<\/p>\n

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