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This Week in the Register Our Right-to-Life Series
The editorial in last week’s issue said: “The 5-4 decision of the Supreme Court upholding the federal ban on partial-birth abortion is a historic ruling that could change the course of the abortion debate and, with it, the course of our nation. Or then again, it might be only a temporary setback as the big business of abortion continues to get exactly what it wants from American politics and jurisprudence. It all depends on what pro-lifers do next.”
BY Father Owen Kearns Publisher
May 06-12, 2007 Issue |
Posted 5/1/07 at 7:00 AM
The
editorial in last week’s issue said: “The 5-4 decision of the Supreme Court
upholding the federal ban on partial-birth abortion is a historic ruling that
could change the course of the abortion debate and, with it, the course of our
nation. Or then again, it might be only a temporary setback as the big business
of abortion continues to get exactly what it wants from American politics and
jurisprudence. It all depends on what pro-lifers do next.”
The editorial suggested four things
that pro-lifers should do, and promised a follow-up on each:
1. Quote the Supreme Court decision’s description
of partial-birth abortion.
2. Name the defenders of partial-birth abortion.
3. Quote the court’s words on the importance of
protecting human life and women’s emotional well-being.
4. Ban more procedures, immediately.
Of the four, this first follow-up is
the most painful to read and the most regrettable to have to publish. The Register
takes no joy in describing these two ugly abortion procedures. But it is
precisely because it is painful to describe them that we must describe them.
Since many people automatically
delete political or religious e-mails, the editorial tries to avoid language
that would raise red flags. This is one case where to simply describe a
procedure is to explain why it is illegitimate, and so that is all the
editorial does.
We pray for healing for the women
who have undergone these procedures — both in elective abortion and, in the
case of the second procedure we describe, in a miscarriage. And we pray for
healing for our nation, a healing that can only begin once the travesty of the
denial of the right-to-life is ended.
This series is one example of how the Register equips our
readers to engage the culture of death. Help us to continue this work — see the
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