JUDIE BROWN COMMENTARY

I am so elated to tell you how grateful I am to God for the recent statements of Colorado Springs Bishop Michael Sheridan and Worcester, Massachusetts Bishop Robert McManus.

When you’ve been involved in pro-life activities as long as I have, you can remember the wonderful Knights of Columbus effort, 25 years ago, to add the words “born and preborn” to the end of our Pledge of Allegiance.

Isn’t it about time that everybody who can read English understand the meaning of words and get their story right when it comes to explaining how the morning after abortion pill actually works?

Recently American Life League’s Stop Planned Parenthood program reported on a victory for all that is right and good in the world.

It seems that the Connecticut Catholic Bishops have circled the wagons and are now presenting arguments in defense of the decision to provide Plan B, the abortive chemical, to sexual assault victims in Catholic hospitals.

When I read the news, my first thought was, “This can’t be true!” But unfortunately, it is. The Connecticut Catholic Conference caved in to political pressure and agreed to provide the morning-after pill to victims of sexual assault when “appropriate testing” is used to determine that the victim is not already with child.

My good friend John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute is a brilliant attorney who has come to see the value in pursuing statewide personhood bills in each and every state in America.

The exercise of legislation via judicial fiat has reached new levels today with the decision of the Supreme Court to decline hearing arguments in defense of religious organizations which do not want to provide contraceptives s part of the drug coverage they offer to their employees.

Well, this is really not a good way to start a Monday, but the news is what it is, so I have to share it with you.

The first time I read the news that the Connecticut Catholic Conference had decided not to oppose the use of the morning after pill for rape victims, I was positive it was a misprint. I was wrong.

I just received the current issue of Life Is Worth Living and I wish it was on line. But there is a web site and I encourage you to visit it.

My daughter was on birth control pills and only occasionally smoked (less than a pack a week). We lost her three years ago at the age of nineteen.