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America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation.  The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men.  It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships.  …  It has portrayed the greatest of gifts – a child – as a competitor, an intrusion, and an inconvenience. 

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta  

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Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.
- Pope Benedict XVI

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The unborn child is, perhaps, the most defenseless and vulnerable person whose right to life is legally taken away in the United States. Catholic social teaching clearly includes the unborn child as a person whose dignity, because it is a creation of God, is sacred. Our educational programs and our legislative advocacy are based on this principle. We work towards assisting women in problem pregnancies. We show compassion and forgiveness to women who have had abortions. We work, legislatively, to decrease abortions and to offer alternatives.

Key Documents:

"The Catholic Church is a Pro-Life Church"
Click on the document above, provided on the National Council of Catholic Bishops web site, to read about the teachings of the Catholic Church regarding our support of pro-life activities and opposition to abortion.

"Living the Gospel of Life:  A Challenge to American Catholics"
Click on the document above, provided on the National Council of Catholic Bishops web site, to read about the implementation of John Paul II's Evangelium vitae in the United States.

Partial-Birth Abortion Trial Transcripts

Information within our web site:

• Pregnancy Centers: Helping women and their families facing an unexpected pregnancy.
• Gabriel Project- detailed information about an ecumenical movement of churches standing together in their commitment to offer assistance to women and families facing crisis pregnancies.
• Project Rachel - detailed information about post-abortion counseling.

Information on other web sites:

U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops - USCCB Pro-Life Secretariat

The California Catholic Conference is a Church institution which represents the bishops (and their dioceses) and allows for the coordination of the concerns of the Church in state public policymaking.

Population Research Institute is a pro-life educational organization dedicated to protecting and defending human life, ending human rights abuses committed in the name of family planning, and dispelling the myth of overpopulation.

Life News.com is an independent news agency specifically devoted to reporting news that affects the pro-life community.

Culture of Life Foundation - Their mission is to gather, sponsor and communicate medical, scientific, religious, philosophical, sociological and economic truths that relate to fundamental life-issues affecting health, happiness, family, faith, freedom, and the inalienable rights of those who are unable to defend themselves.

Priests for Life - an officially approved association of Catholic Clergy who give special emphasis to the pro-life teachings of the Church. They offer ongoing assistance to the clergy in addressing the topics of abortion and euthanasia, and training and resources to the entire pro-life movement. 

Feminists for Life - Organization of pro-life women offers college outreach programs.

Science for Unborn Human Life - An objective, fact-based report describing the day-by-day development of the unborn child, with each fact researched by a reference to the scientific and medical literature.

The Second Look Project, which presents basic factual information about abortion so people can take a second look at the issue. “Opinions on abortion are often based on mistaken perceptions or on emotions. The Second Look Project is innovative because it provides basic facts, and lets the facts speak for themselves.

RU486facts.org believes that informed consent is an essential part of good health care. The confusion and misinformation about RU-486 is troubling. Many people, for example, are confused about whether RU-486 is similar to the "morning after pill."

The Polycarp Research Institute To promote and perform research that seeks to improve the physical, psychological and spiritual condition of mankind. These include: Breast cancer and abortion, breast cancer and oral contraceptives, post fertilization effect of emergency contraception and oral contraception.

High Court's Act of Judicial Infamy George Will
Washington Post Writers Group
Tuesday, July 4, 2000

It probably was inevitable that partial-birth abortion would become a sacrament in the Church of "Choice.'' That sect's theology cannot risk conceding that what is killed in an abortion ever possesses more moral significance than a tumor. Hence it cannot concede that society's sensibilities should be lacerated by, or that its respect for life might be damaged by, any method of abortion.

But how did this surgical procedure become, as it did Wednesday, not just a constitutional right but a "fundamental'' constitutional right -- a right deemed integral to the enjoyment of liberty?

Nebraska's ban on partial-birth abortion, akin to bans enacted by 29 other states, has not survived the Supreme Court's scrutiny. But scant scrutiny was required, given the logic the court locked itself into 27 years ago when, in Roe vs. Wade, the court, with breathtaking disregard of elemental embryology, described a fetus as "potential life.''

Not long ago, pro-abortion forces denied that what they call "fetal material,'' and Nebraska calls "a living unborn child,'' can feel pain. In fact, partial-birth abortion, which is generally used in the third trimester of gestation, is inflicted on beings that have reflexes and brain activity and other attributes of newborn infants.

Nebraska defined the prohibited practice as "delivering into the vagina a living unborn child'' for the purpose of killing it. In this procedure (which the court majority, in its delicacy, flinches from fully describing) the baby is turned, pulled by its kicking legs almost entirely from the mother. Then, with only the top of the skull still in the birth canal, the skull is punctured and its contents sucked out.

Divided 5-4, the court held that Nebraska's law, as phrased, might criminalize another, more common procedure used primarily in second-trimester abortions. But Nebraska's attorney general has expressly vowed not to apply the law to this more common procedure.

The court also faulted Nebraska's law for lacking an "exception for the preservation of the . . . health of the mother.'' But the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which opposes restrictions on abortion, says it can identify "no circumstances under which'' partial-birth abortion "would be the only option to save the life or preserve the health of the woman.''

The primary reason the court ruled against Nebraska is that it cannot find traction on the slippery slope onto which it so improvidently stepped 27 years ago. America's subsequent slide into the culture of death was manifest Sept. 26, 1996, during a Senate debate on partial-birth abortion.

Pennsylvania Republican Rick Santorum asked Democrats Russ Feingold of Wisconsin and Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey this: Suppose during an attempted partial-birth abortion the infant, instead of being just almost delivered, with only a few inches of skull remaining in the birth canal, slips entirely out of the canal. Is killing the born baby still a "choice''? Feingold and Lautenberg said it was still a matter between a mother and her abortionist.

Feingold and Lautenberg anticipated the court. In Roe vs. Wade, which arose in Texas, the court left standing a Texas law prohibiting "the killing of an unborn child during parturition,'' meaning the killing of an infant "in the state of being born and before actual birth.'' On Wednesday, such killing -- what Justice Scalia, dissenting, accurately calls "live-birth abortion'' -- became a fundamental constitutional right.

Wednesday's decision will, as Justice Scalia said in dissent, rank with the cases of Dred Scott (1857, saying blacks could not be citizens and so could not seek judicial protection of their rights) and Korematsu (1944, upholding the internment of American citizens of Japanese ancestry) as acts of judicial infamy.