JUDIE BROWN COMMENTARY

I frequently recall Father Paul Marx telling audiences that abortion was but the tip of the proverbial iceberg.

To say that this past weekend’s headlines were a bit disturbing to those of us who know that every act of abortion murders a child is an understatement. Try flabbergaste–at least, that is how I feel.

I have read a great deal about Cynthia Tureman’s act of drowning her newborn baby. It has been reported that the child reached her arms out to her mother, but Tureman did not reach back.

Recent reports from Connecticut and Wisconsin leave us wondering what in the world is going on in the world of “Catholic” health care.

When I heard that Hillary Clinton was headlining a fundraiser in Illinois for the Mercy Home for Boys and Girls, the shock and horror of it irritated me, then it made me angry and then it disgusted me. That is where I am right now — totally disgusted.

A 17-year-old girl known as Miss D is at the center of a pro-abortion campaign at the moment. This young woman is with child, and she has been told that her baby has a very serious brain deformity known as anencephaly and that the child will not live longer than three days outside the womb.

I have been quite disturbed by the news headlines of the past week. Perhaps you did not know it, but in addition to the Connecticut bishops and their amazing ability to back down on the subject of using the morning after pill (chemical abortion pill) to treat victims of sexual assault, the Wisconsin bishops are doing the same thing.

I am sure you will recall that late last week St. Louis’s Catholic Archbishop, Raymond Burke, held a news conference to explain why he felt compelled to resign from the board of Bishop Glennon Hospital.

The Connecticut state senate approved a bill Wednesday that would require all hospitals — including the four Catholic hospitals in the state — to provide the Plan B emergency contraceptive to rape victims.

While many of us are ecstatic at the news that Rosie O’Donnell is leaving “The View,” it is most interesting to note that one of her parting shots happened to be aimed at Catholics.

The Supreme Court’s recent decision to uphold restrictions on partial-birth abortion (actually, it’s infanticide) in most cases has stirred up the folks who support the act of abortion in ways that boggle my simple mind.

It was with great sadness that I read the media reports about the scandalous comments that were made by those organizing an event to benefit the Bob Costas Cancer Center at the Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical center in St. Louis.