Operation Outcry – by Fr. Thomas Euteneuer
March 6, 2008
In every country where abortion is being promoted, the insistent mantra of the abortion promoters is the lie that “unsafe (i.e., illegal) abortion” is damaging women’s lives and should be replaced by “safe and legal” abortion.
The transformation of abortion from illegal to legal is supposed to make it ? magically ? safe for women. That was but one of
the many lies about abortion that the US Supreme Court swallowed in 1973 when it legalized this killing procedure.
While the abortion industry itself admitted that most of the illegal abortions were done by trained doctors in the comfort of their offices, very few arguments were as persuasive as the one that said women would be served by eliminating “back-alley” abortions and replacing them with abortion on demand.
This pernicious lie is still a favorite argument of the abortion industry around the world, and they must marvel at how easily people fall for it.
Well, we know how to undo that lie. The same way we undo any lie: we defeat it with the truth.
We are quick to acknowledge that abortion is never safe for unborn children, but 35 sad years of destruction has taught us that it’s also a lie to think that legal abortion is safe and pain-free for women. Post-abortive women everywhere are the best witnesses
to the truth about abortion, and that truth is very simple ?
There is no such thing as a safe abortion! Period.
This testimony is valid both for our own fight here in the United States to overturn Roe as well as for our fight to keep this evil out of abortion-free countries.
We need to join that fight as best we can and we now have a way to do that.
I have recently discovered a most worthy project for post-abortion testimonies called Operation Outcry.
I am impressed by the scope of their work and the goal that they have set for themselves.
This project is sponsored by the Texas Justice Foundation, the group that brought Norma McCorvey (the Roe of Roe v. Wade) back to the Supreme Court to let her story be heard.
They want to collect one million “declarations” of post-abortion stories, which will be entered into the public record when abortion comes back up before the Supreme Court.
They are relying on various pro-life organizations to get the word out to post-abortive women and men who can declare, in a fully confidential manner, that abortion is not the salvation that it was promised to be in 1973 or ever.
In the face of the Supreme Court’s ongoing commitment to Roe, the ones who have had real experience of those negative effects are able to testify to the highest court in our land something that we have always known: that abortion is a damaging, degrading and desperate procedure.
It robs babies of their lives and women and men of their dignity.
We think the Supreme Court needs to hear this message. In fact, the Texas Justice Foundation was the only pro-life brief that was cited in the recent partial birth abortion decision, and so we think there is a fighting chance.
Please do consider looking at the website of Operation Outcry:
(http://www.operationoutcry.org/) and join in the effort to get declarations from one million women and men who have been affected negatively by abortion.
The lie has to be countered by a strong witness to the truth, and after 35 years of abortion on demand, many people certainly have a strong witness to offer.
There is no time like the present to use it!
Fr. Tom Euteneuer is president of Human Life International
Link – http://www.catholicexchange.com/node/70236
Submitted by Doria2
March 6, 2008
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Catholic Day on 60 Minutes – An Interview with Justice Antonin Scalia
Justice Scalia On The Record
60 Minutes’ Lesley Stahl Interviews The Supreme Court Justice About His Public And Private Life
(CBS) Not many Supreme Court justices become famous, but Antonin Scalia is one of the few. Known as “Nino” to his friends and colleagues, he is one of the most brilliant and combative justices ever to sit on the court and one of the most prominent legal thinkers of his generation.
He first agreed to talk to 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl about a new book he’s written on how lawyers should address the court. But over the course of several conversations, our story grew into a full-fledged profile – his first major television interview – including discussions about abortion and Bush v. Gore.
Click to read more, or to view the 2 part interview
Then we have an Andy Rooney commentary on the Papal visit
Catholic Perspective:
Last Sunday (April 27th) Lesley Stahl interviewed Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, in what turned out to be a candid and wide-ranging look into the life of this little known, but obviously very Catholic man.
While CBS’ editing has been suspect in the past, I had no reason to believe that anything I was seeing had been over-processed, or twisted in any way.
In fact, about half way through, I couldn’t help but notice the total lack of guile in the man, and the precise way in which he crafted his words. Not bad things for a Supreme Court Justice.
I also couldn’t help noticing that Scalia appeared to be an icon of the ideal Catholic man.
We could use a lot more just like him.
Catholic parents would do well to sit down and carefully watch the interview … first by themselves … and then with the kids.
It doesn’t get much better than this.
-LD
May 2, 2008
Categories: Events, Human Rights, Inspirational, Politics, Videos, Photos, Audio . Tags: book, catholic, commentary, constitution, court, interview, justice, law, lawyers, rooney, scalia, stahl, supreme . Author: Doug Lawrence . Comments: Leave a comment