Pro-life support critical

Christopher Gilbert, director of Religious Education for St. Thomas Aquinas University Parish in Charlottesville, Va., has spoken with people on both sides of the abortion issue. He notes: “People claim that by not having access to abortion, they are being denied a certain right. How is killing the baby in your womb a right?  This fundamentally flawed logic has a ripple effect that creates a wave of erring beliefs that justify the murder of millions.”

And perhaps millions more are in peril in the face of an overwhelmingly pro-abortion presidential administration.  Whether President Barack Obama will make good on his July 2007 statement to Planned Parenthood, promising that if elected he would sign the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), remains to be seen. 

The coming months will be particularly critical for the pro-life movement.  Catholics need to present a united front on the issue of life, from the episcopal office to the pews.  Because the division between faith and reason—between personal belief and public life—is a false dichotomy.  Archbishop Charles Chaput clarified the matter in his August 2008 letter “On the Separation of Church and State”: “a proper understanding of the separation of Church and state does not imply a separation of faith from political life.” 

Jennifer Senour
Fellowship of Catholic University Students
Program Manager
Denver