“Protesting or praying outside women’s health centers by cardinals and other church leaders, no matter how non-violent it appears, offends and hurts women.”
Frances Kissling, President of Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC), quoted in Cathleen Falsani. “Abortion Foes Gather to Pray: Cardinal Bernardin Leads Mass at Chicago Clinic.” Daily Southtown, June 27, 1999, pages 1 and 10
Frances Kissling says that even peaceful pro-life activism hurts women. She ignores the many pro-life people who devote their entire life’s work to helping women deal with their crisis pregnancies. A network of hundreds of crisis pregnancy centers throughout the country help women with practical support and counseling as well as material items and services they need to carry their pregnancies to term. Those who intervene at abortion clinics and do so peacefully have been responsible for steering potential abortion patients away from the abortionist’s curette. Many of these mothers are later very grateful that someone was there to reach out to them in front of the clinic.
Share on Facebook