"The sanctity of human life" by Rep. Mike Pence, Part 1...

"For that one reason among many, the United States will suffer unless there is placed into your government a group that fears the Lord if they cannot love the Lord. They will fear Him and find measures to stop the slaughter of the unborn." - Our Lady of the Roses, April 14, 1984

Rep. Mike Pence presented this address on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives on September 25, 2003:

Mr. Speaker, I rise at the end of a week of activity here on Capitol Hill to do nothing less than to begin a process and an effort that I hope will be a part of the fabric of my career for however long I have the privilege of serving in the United States House of Representatives.

I rise very simply, Mr. Speaker, to make the case for life; to make the arguments, philosophical, intellectual, moral and historical, on this blue and gold carpet, on a regular basis, for the sanctity of human life.

My inspiration, oddly enough, Mr. Speaker, for this series, was just mentioned by the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Brown) in his remarks immediately preceding mine. It is almost uncanny to me to have heard it. For my inspiration in rising today on the House floor is none other than a former member of this body who served as a member of Congress from 1827 until his death in 1848.

Prior to being a member of the House of Representatives, John Quincy Adams was President of the United States, and his father President before him. But, remarkably, after one term in Congress, John Quincy Adams felt compelled, Mr. Speaker, to be elected to Congress from the state of Massachusetts and to come to this place. And more than any other purpose, it is clear as one studies his speeches and pronouncements on this floor, that he was a man deeply committed to the abolition of slavery in America.

Just as the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Brown) reflected, it is reported that oftentimes on a weekly basis or more throughout the nearly 20 years that John Quincy Adams served as a member of this Congress, in a Chamber, as you know, Mr. Speaker, just down the hall. The great, grand old man and former President would come, history records, and bring his papers with him and make the moral and the intellectual and the historical and even the Biblical case against slavery in America.

We are even told that some of his colleagues at the time during the course of those two decades actually tried to change the procedural rules of the House, because they thought it rather impolitic to have old Mr. Adams coming down and bringing up that difficult issue again. But he did it, and he did it well, and he did it without apology. And as I rise today to begin what I hope for however many years I serve in Congress to be a series on the case for life, I am inspired and magnetized by John Quincy Adams.

Now, many may say that John Quincy Adams, who perished, we are told, in the midst of a session of Congress, fell over backwards in his chair, was carried into a waiting room where he died the next day, some may say that his death in 1848, long before slavery would vanish from this continent, proved that he had failed in his endeavor.

But God works in mysterious ways, Mr. Speaker, and I cannot help but feel to this day that at sometime from heaven John Quincy Adams smiled down when he realized that on the back row of the Congress in which he gave those lectures arrived in the year 1847 a tall, lanky man from the state of Illinois who served for one term in Congress, and Abraham Lincoln would later reflect that the speeches on the abolition of slavery that he heard from the great man John Quincy Adams deeply impacted his thinking and his life. And when Abraham Lincoln would then run for the Senate in Illinois and lose, and then be propelled on that same issue to the Presidency, he, no doubt, as is all of our posterity, was in debt to the ranting of that old man.

And here is hoping that my ranting may cast seeds, somewhere, Mr. Speaker, whether in this chamber or through the means whereby people observe what we do here; that some might reflect on the principles that we share over the course of this series on the case for life and be inspired by it, because it matters.

Despite the fact that ever since Roe v. Wade became law in 1973 America has looked across the street to the U.S. Supreme Court to define this business of the rightness and the legality of abortion, and despite the fact that, frankly, even in this Congress we pay scant attention to the issue, it, nevertheless, is a colossal issue about which our Nation must attend, for one reason and one reason only: 1.6 million abortions are performed in the United States each year. Ninety-one percent are performed during the first trimester, 12 or fewer weeks gestation. Nine percent are performed in the second trimester.

Approximately 1.5 million U.S. women with unwanted pregnancies choose abortion every year, and most are under the age of 25 years and unmarried. And as psychologists across America now reflect, post-abortion stress syndrome, which seems to viciously take hold of women at or around the age of menopause, where in many cases women are led into therapy because of a deep sense of remorse about decisions they made decades before, it is a decision that those 1.5 million women make not just for that day, but for many, Mr. Speaker, a decision that colors much of the rest of their life.

Approximately 6 million women in the United States become pregnant every year. About half of those pregnancies are unintended, and 1.5 million elect to terminate them with legal abortion.

Each year, more than 1 million U.S. teenagers become pregnant, and the teen pregnancy rate has moved in the last 30 years to truly startling statistics. Eighty percent of women having abortions are single, 60 percent are white, 35 percent are black. Eighty-two percent of women having abortions are unmarried or separated, and almost half, this is almost incomprehensible to me, but statistics from Planned Parenthood´s National Center for Health Statistics suggest that almost half of American women, 43 percent, will have an abortion sometime in their life. Yet, we rarely talk about it here. A procedure of deep physical and emotional and moral and perhaps even spiritual consequences reflected on through the millennia is scarcely talked about in the center of the most powerful government on Earth.

"for roughly 3,000 years in Western civilization, until 1973, it was the unanimous position of medical ethicists throughout Western civilization that abortion was immoral and unethical"

Today I would like to speak, if I may, about a few of the historical aspects of the case for life. Oftentimes, when I am standing before groups of young people, I will say, rather obliquely, that for roughly 3,000 years in Western civilization, until 1973, it was the unanimous position of medical ethicists throughout Western civilization that abortion was immoral and unethical. And I am always amazed at the startled look on children´s faces. Because, of course, every student that I see in a classroom was born in the post Roe v. Wade America where abortion is a settled fact. It is a settled legal reality. But to begin with the realization that for three millennia through, if I can use the word, through the gestation of Western civilization, there was, as Mother Teresa often reflected, that core principle that human life is sacred. Often rejected, even by nations and peoples in the midst of our civilization, nevertheless, the sanctity of human life rises out of the march of our civilization, almost like no other.

We all are familiar with the founding documents of this nation that speak of certain unalienable rights endowed by our Creator, and among them are life. It is an astounding thing to consider. But what did our Founders think of when they thought of life? They were men who reflected on the ancients; they reflected on history. The Founders of this nation, some of whom are remembered on the walls and carved in stone throughout this building, were truly learned men. So it is important when we think about a reference to the unalienable right to life, what did our Founders think about when they said life? What did they think of as human life? In the context of our common law and in the context of the history of the ancients or the Middle Ages, or even the early church fathers who so deeply influenced the Founders of this country, it is a consistent, one-after-another element of the law in history that argues beyond a doubt that abortion was considered a deep moral offense.

In the Lex Cornelia 81 B.C., the jurist Iulius Paulus applied a text of this law that applied to poisoners and those who dispensed drugs specifically intended to cause abortion, saying that whoever dispenses an abortion pill, regardless of its intention, the law read, set a bad example and was condemned to work in the mines in 81 B.C. One thinks of that story of a young girl who may have had medical complications just last week from having taken the pill RU-486 and died. And one thinks of the wisdom of Lex Cornelia from 81 B.C., the dispensing of a pill and a poison that causes an abortion and its harm. Cicero actually placed it beyond doubt that the offense of abortion was a capital offense punishable even by death. In the Persian Empire, criminal abortions were severely punished. And so it goes.

In fact, the Ephesian, Soranos, often described as the greatest ancient gynecologist from whom we obtain the word and the practice of gynecology was, as history records, deeply opposed to Rome´s prevailing free abortion practice. Soranos found it necessary to think first of the life of the mother and resorted to an abortion when he thought the life of the mother was in danger, but it was otherwise unacceptable. At the time of Soranos, Greek and Roman law afforded little protection to the unborn until Christianity took root in the Roman Empire, and then it changed. And from that point forward, after the spread of Christianity in the Roman Empire, infanticide and abortion were treated as equally criminal acts, alongside murder.

Throughout the Middle Ages, the severe penalty for abortion remained in force in all countries of Europe well into the Middle Ages, and it was reflected in many of the writings. I think of John Calvin, one of the early church fathers and someone who deeply influenced the development of common law and Christian theological thinking. He said, John Calvin now, "The fetus, though enclosed in the womb of his mother, is already a human being, and it is a monstrous crime to rob it of life which it has not yet begun to enjoy. If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house than in a field, because a man´s house is his place of most secure refuge, it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light," John Calvin wrote in the commentary on the Book of Exodus.

Truly astonishing words, but not at the time that he wrote them. To think of that time and to think of that context, John Calvin wrote that the ancients embraced common accepted law, and, of course, our own common law was given birth by those historical moorings.

"long before the settlement of the English colonies on this continent, the common law of England, that is, the law recognized as common to all Englishmen, defined abortion as a crime"

As James S. Cole wrote in an essay titled Abortion at Common Law, long before the settlement of the English colonies on this continent, the common law of England, that is, the law recognized as common to all Englishmen, defined abortion as a crime. In accord with the limits of biological knowledge of the day, it was believed that there was no life until what was known as "quickening," when the movements of the baby could be discerned. Abortion was therefore declared by the earliest authorities a lesser crime than criminal homicide until quickening, and then it was a felony after quickening. Much later, in the 1600s, there was some hesitation to prosecute abortions in which a child died in the womb as opposed to those in which the baby was expelled before dying, because of the problems of proving that the act of beating the mother´s abdomen or giving her a poison had caused the death of the child. However, there was no doubt that abortion of a woman who was either "quick or great with child" was unlawful.

In colonial America, abortions were prosecuted under the common law. After the Revolution, the new American states adopted the common law of England as the basis of their own law, including common law crimes. Within a generation, the independent states began to outgrow the English common law, and state legislatures increasingly defined crimes in their states. However, common law crimes survived until superseded by legislative enactment.

Although common law prohibitions on abortion were largely replaced over time with legislative enactments through the 19th century, there was never a gap in which the common law had anything other than a prohibition of abortion. Abortion was a crime during the hundreds of years before the founding of this nation, and it remained a crime in every state at the beginning of our nation and throughout the 19th century.

Until the advent of Roe v. Wade which, it is worth noting, struck down simultaneously those laws promulgated from the common law in all 50 States, abortion was considered a crime, a deep moral offense, and anathema to medical ethicists.

It is altogether appropriate to point out as well as we consider the ancients today, Mr. Speaker, that the Hippocratic Oath itself was carved, depending on who you believe of the historians, and doctors will argue the point, but somewhere between 3,000 and 4,000 years ago. The Hippocratic Oath was authored by the great physician Hippocrates and begins in many versions with the phrase, "First, do no harm." In its most classic versions it makes reference to abortion; it was altogether and always inappropriate for the healer ever to end human life, either born human life or unborn human life. It is contained in the Hippocratic Oath. It was what it meant to be a doctor, that you heal; your charge was to heal human beings. And so the bright line, to put it in modern terminology, Mr. Speaker, the eight-lane superhighway in Hippocrates´ mind, it seemed to me, was that the doctor does not kill human beings. Doctors do not end human life. And for 4,000 years, the advance of medical ethics, and every doctor in my state of Indiana and every doctor who takes an oath throughout the Western world raises their hand, in many cases, and takes the Hippocratic Oath.

Now, the edited version oftentimes does not include reference to abortion, but it still includes that line, "First, do no harm." And it is why today so many doctors in America refuse as a professional decision to perform abortions. They simply choose not to be a part of it. In fact, there seems to be some evidence in the medical community of a diminishing availability of abortion in America, because men and women who wear the white smocks and the green smocks of physicians are less and less interested in that fundamental compromise of their mission and their ministry as a healer, according to the Hippocratic Oath.

I spoke of the English common law, which specifically forbade abortion. It did, in some cases, as I mentioned, treat abortion as a felony and, in other cases, treated it as a misdemeanor; but in all cases it was immoral, wrong, and illegal. Blackstone wrote, as I learned in law school, the famous Blackstone Commentaries at the founding of the country; it can be accurately observed that practicing lawyers could literally consider themselves as having an entire legal library if they possessed one book, not counting the Bible, but Blackstone´s Commentaries on the Law. This book is taught even to this day in the most secular of law schools, and people understand that Blackstone was, for people practicing the law in the colonies and in the states and in the territories, the ultimate resource. Blackstone was clear on abortion, writing in one of his commentaries, "If a woman is quick with child and by poison or otherwise killeth it in her womb, or if anyone beat her whereby the child dieth in her body and she is delivered of a dead child, this, though not murder was, by the ancient law, homicide or manslaughter."

So whatever may have been the exact view taken by common law of any specific offense, in and around 1803, there was no question that abortion was a crime. And yet, in America today, by a judicial decision and by judicial fiat, that has fundamentally changed.

So why does all this matter? As I talked to some colleagues today, they said to me, now, why are you doing that? Is there some legislation coming to the floor that is going to change things in abortion? And I granted the point that ever since Roe v. Wade, we, in the people´s House, in the Congress, and in the state legislatures of all 50 states, have very little to say about this issue.

It comes down to nine men and women in black robes and the Presidents who appoint them. But it seems to me to be altogether fitting that something that so deeply troubles the heart of half of the American people ought to be something that resonates in the heart of our national government.

That is how I see this Chamber, Mr. Speaker. I said it shortly after 9/11 in a speech that I gave on this same floor, that I viewed the House of Representatives as the heart of the American government and that it ought to resonate with the hearts of the American people. When the hearts of the American people are troubled about an issue at home or abroad, this should be a troubled room. When the hearts of the American people are quiet and at rest, this should be a quiet and amicable place.

It may be over-literalizing it, trying to turn the government into some homotropic version of man, but I think it has merit. And the truth is that while there are millions of Americans who embrace the right to choose an abortion, who take to the street to defend it, who take to the polls to support it, there are, by any measure, a growing number of nearly half of this country who is deeply troubled to live in an America where innocent human life is so callously discarded. It was as Meghan Cox Gurdon called it in an article in The Wall Street Journal a number of years ago, it is, in my judgment, the mother of all rights.

Meghan Cox Gurdon, and I borrow from her essay now, wrote, "The Roe v. Wade anniversaries make me think of the last scene in Schindler´s List, the film about Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist who saved a small number of Jews during World War II. The final scene," for those who haven't seen it, "features actual Schindler survivors with their children and grandchildren line up to place stones on his grave in Israel. What makes the scene so powerful is not just the surprising number of progeny already produced by the Holocaust escapees, but the staggering number of men, women and children who are not there, who never had a chance of life because the Nazis gassed those who would have been their parents and grandparents."

Meghan Gurdon goes on to write compellingly, "When Roe comes up, it has a Schindler-like reverberation in my own family. The fact is, my husband and I, our four children, his three siblings and their combined eight children all owe our lives to the fact that the famous Supreme Court decision did not come until 1973 (and its British equivalent until 1967). For all 17 of us, all descended from two unwanted pregnancies—two pregnancies that produced hasty marriages, some unhappiness, rather more sadness, and even actually two divorces. And I have to say, boy, am I glad that those pregnancies, dismaying and unexpected as they were, entailing the compromises that they did for those involved, were not tidied up in a clinic so that the young mothers in question could `get on with their lives.´ You, gentle reader, would have been deprived of nothing more than my editorial voice. I and 16 kinsfolk would have been robbed of everything."

"I think it is why our founders listed life first, that they knew from the spilled blood that had happened on our shores and would happen at the hands of a despotic king. They knew that if a man does not have an unalienable right to life, he has nothing"

It is in every sense, as Meghan Gurdon writes, "the mother of all rights." I think it is why our founders listed life first, that they knew from the spilled blood that had happened on our shores and would happen at the hands of a despotic king. They knew that if a man does not have an unalienable right to life, he has nothing. That if a man or a woman cannot anticipate that government cannot deprive them of their life without due process of law and cannot deprive any human person of their right to life without due process of law, then they are, in the words of John Calvin, like that man in his own home, most grievously offended to have been attacked in what is to be his safest place.

Alexander Hamilton cautioned us against forgetting the ancient parchments, the teachings of ancients, and cautioned those who believed that we could create a society that separated law from moral truth, saying, "The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written as with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of the Divinity and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power."

It is a truth, Mr. Speaker, I have tried humbly to advance today for your and my colleagues´ ears and for anyone else who is listening, and in the weeks and months and, if the Lord wills it, years ahead. I hope from time to time to come to this floor and do likewise. To begin to take a break from the arguments of the day at home and abroad and to take a longer-view perspective on this Nation and on the vitality of its legal and moral traditions. For it seems to me that abortion is the issue of our time.

I used to say to people when I was younger that I thought abortion was the most important moral issue of our time, and I have since abandoned the adjective because I really do believe that as the late Mother Teresa would say often, that it is the defining issue of our age. On some days, I believe in a hopeful view of the future, that our posterity will look back and say there was a time when America lost her way, but largely because of a broken heart, she came back. She came back to the truth of the ancient, not because she returned to a puritanical society that judged people in their hour of need, but because America again became a brokenhearted society that said, we want to be a place where there are no unwanted children. We want to be a society where crisis pregnancy centers come to replace entirely centers where innocent life is destroyed; where women know that there are better choices — not only for their unborn child, but for them than ever the choice of ending that life.

That is my hope and that is my dream, that they will look back on this time and they will say, Mr. Speaker, America got off the path, but she reflected on the truths of the ancients. She reflected on the unalienable rights that she had alienated for a while, of life, and liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And by God´s grace, she found her way back, to be a compassionate society and a caring society, but a society that once again embraced the unalienable right to life.

"How can a great country like the United States fall, you say, My child? You ask Me in your heart. I read your heart. I will tell you why. Because they have given themselves over to satan. When a country has lost its morality and seeks the pleasures of the flesh, giving over, themselves over, to all manner of abominations, like homosexuality, and condoning this up the highest courts of the land, then that country shall fall." - Our Lady of the Roses, November 1, 1985

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These prophecies came from Jesus, Mary, and the saints to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, NY, from 1968 to 1995:

SIN OF OMISSION
"The sin of omission shall condemn many to hell, be they layman or Hierarchy. I repeat: not the sin of commission, but the sin of omission will commit many to hell. Among them there will be also mitres." - Our Lady, October 6, 1980

THE UNITED STATES SHALL BE FIRST STRUCK
"One of the reasons the Eternal Father chose your city and your state for My appearance was because of abortion, the murder of the holy innocents. Your nation, without repentance, shall be the first struck." - Our Lady, March 15, 1978

THE UNITED STATES SHALL FALL
"How can a great country like the United States fall, you say, My child? You ask Me in your heart. I read your heart. I will tell you why. Because they have given themselves over to satan. When a country has lost its morality and seeks the pleasures of the flesh, giving over, themselves over, to all manner of abominations, like homosexuality, and condoning this up the highest courts of the land, then that country shall fall." - Our Lady of the Roses, November 1, 1985

DOCTORS
"Doctors now are profaning their profession, those who have given themselves over to destroying human life in abortions." - Jesus, June 6, 1987

FOULEST OF DEEDS
"Our hearts are torn because of the wanton murder of the young by evil man. Abortion, My children, is murder, the most foulest of deeds, that is punishable by death! And what is worse than death of the soul?
     "I say unto you, as your Mother, that any man or woman who performs or takes part of this abomination of the murder of the unborn shall be given a heavy penance upon earth, or if this penance is not given upon earth, that person found guilty in the eyes of his God shall suffer eternal damnation in the fires of hell." - Our Lady, December 28, 1976

DESTROYED
"All who become part of or condone abortion, the murder of the young, shall be destroyed!" - Jesus, June 2, 1979

HUMAN LIFE IS SACRED
"The Eternal Father command that you stop these murders at once! You will not destroy the lives of the unborn. Human life is sacred in the eyes of your God. No man has the right to destroy a life. The Father, He sends this life to you, and only He will decide when it will return back to the Kingdom.
     "Do not, My children, be deceived by the words of the evil ones about you who cry to you of no space left for man. There is space, for My Father has a plan for every life He sends." - Our Lady, August 5, 1971

WILL NEVER BE CONDONED
"You will remember, My children and My child, to guard the young. Your clergy have fallen into darkness. Abortion will never be condoned. But We must have others who fervently will go forward and bring out to the minds of those who have actually seduced the country and the children--bring them the knowledge of Heaven, hell and purgatory. Then they will not have free license to sin." - Our Lady, May 28, 1983

GOVERNMENT
"For that one reason among many, the United States will suffer unless there is placed into your government a group that fears the Lord if they cannot love the Lord. They will fear Him and find measures to stop the slaughter of the unborn." - Our Lady, April 14, 1984

NUNS
"That is what makes My heart ache, My child. That is one of the reasons Theresa is crying constantly when she looks into the convents and sees what is going on. Many now believe in abortion, the murders of the children; and many have committed this act upon themselves." - Jesus, October 1, 1988

SIXTY MILLION
"I say this for this reason: the Eternal Father is much disturbed at the numbers of abortions being committed throughout your country and the world. These numbers go upwards to fifty to sixty million in one year throughout the world." - Our Lady, June 18, 1986

TREATED AS GARBAGE
"O My child, My tears fall upon you all when I see all of the innocent little babies being slaughtered . . . cast into garbage pails like nothing but dirt and scum. They are living human beings! And all murderers shall get their just recompense." - Our Lady, March 18, 1983

BOMBS IN THE UNITED STATES
"These interlopers upon the serenity of the United States have dark skins.... With their plans there will be bombs placed in strategic places and many shall die at the hands of these ruffians....
     "One big reason for permitting this disaster in New York would be the abortion mills throughout the city and the country." - Jesus, October 1, 1988

HOLY SPIRIT
"At the time of conception, the Holy Spirit makes the child, and the breath of the Almighty gives it life." - Our Lady, June 18, 1991

LIMBO
"And what, My children, are We going to do with all the aborted babies? O My child, I know you feel as I do, for I can see the great distress on your face. What are We going to do, My child? Do you understand when they come to Us, they must go to Limbo? They are in Heaven, a happy place, but they cannot see God." - Our Lady, October 2, 1987

SORROWFULLY
"Sorrowfully, the penance that is to come upon the world for the murders of the unborn shall be a chastisement far greater in severity than man has ever witnessed in the past nor ever shall pass through again. Your world is plunging into a deep chasm of suffering and destruction." - Our Lady, May 20, 1978

OATH
"Your once loyal to the oath of a doctor, your once loyal doctors are now butchers! For money they kill the young!" - Our Lady, February 10, 1978

WOE TO THE WOMAN
"Know, My child, this simple lesson, that in these days of the latter times, women will seek to cast off their role as mother and a woman. Women will cast it off under the direction of satan, and murder her children. Woe to the woman who does not repent of this vile abomination! She has walked the road to eternal damnation and hell. Repent, O woman, or forever be lost!" - Our Lady, March 18, 1975

Directives from Heaven...

D23 - Abortion PDF
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D167 - The Family - Part 1 PDF
D168 - The Family - Part 2 PDF
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Articles...

"The sanctity of human life" by Rep. Mike Pence, Part 2
https://www.tldm.org/news7/Pence2.htm

"The sanctity of human life" by Rep. Mike Pence, Part 3
https://www.tldm.org/news7/Pence3.htm

The parallels of slavery and abortion issues, Dred Scott and Roe v. Wade decisions
https://www.tldm.org/News7/ParallelsSlaveryAbortion.htm

Abortion and the conscience of the Nation, by President Ronald Reagan
https://www.tldm.org/News7/AbortionReagan.htm

Mother Teresa's letter to the Supreme Court on abortion
https://www.tldm.org/News7/AbortionMotherTeresa.htm

Pope says abortion to lead to downfall of democracies
https://www.tldm.org/news4/abortion.htm

Abortion: the ultimate exploitation of women
https://www.tldm.org/News6/exploitation.htm

Archbishop Chaput says abortion is "central social issue of this moment" in U.S. history
https://www.tldm.org/news6/Chaput3.htm

Spanish Bishop calls abortion "the greatest crime ever committed in history"
https://www.tldm.org/News7/AbortionGreatestCrime.htm

Virginia Bishop calls abortion "greatest moral evil of our age"
https://www.tldm.org/News7/Schmitt.htm

Archbishop Chaput says those who support abortion "rights" cannot be Catholic
https://www.tldm.org/News7/Chaput.htm

Mexican cardinals says that those who promote abortion cannot be Catholic
https://www.tldm.org/news7/MexicanCardinal.htm

Even elimination of poverty cannot justify one abortion, says Bishop Sheridan
https://www.tldm.org/News7/Sheridan3.htm

You wouldn't even ask
https://www.tldm.org/news7/Pavone1.htm

Archbishop Chaput says Catholics refusing to defend morality "demonstrating cowardice"
https://www.tldm.org/news7/Chaput3.htm

Abortion and the contraceptive mentality
https://www.tldm.org/news4/contraception_abortion.htm

Outside Links...

Abortion:

The beginning of the end of abortion, WorldNetDaily, November 13, 2004
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41431

Sin to vote for pro-abortion politicians? Fr. Matthew Habiger
http://www.ewtn.com/library/ISSUES/SINTOVOT.HTM

2002 Canonical Petition to Excommunicate Culture of Death "Catholics"
http://www.cathfam.org/cfexcom/Excom.html

“Whoever is not with Me, is against Me,” Archbishop William Levada
http://www.ewtn.com/library/BISHOPS/LEVADA.HTM

Declaration on procured abortion (CDF, November 18, 1974)
http://www.ewtn.com/library/CURIA/CDFABORT.HTM

The Gospel of Life, Pope John Paul II, March 25, 1995
http://www.ewtn.com/library/ENCYC/JP2EVANG.HTM

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