{"id":196760,"date":"2019-02-21T12:55:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T18:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=196760"},"modified":"2019-02-21T12:55:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T18:55:56","slug":"defending-right-speak-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/defending-right-speak-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite what abortion supporters say, we have a right to speak for the preborn"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Every now and then, pro-abortion advocates try to silence pro-life individuals or groups by claiming they have no right to speak in defense of the preborn, for one reason or another. An attack against the validity of an individual or a group\u2019s pro-life witness is an attack on the pro-life movement as a whole. If pro-abortion leaders are the ones deciding who may or may not speak on this issue, they will find a way to silence the pro-life witness of others: Christians, Muslims, Jews, areligious, men, women who have never had abortions, women who have never had disabled children, and so on. And it would not be long before the only ones authorized to speak on abortion are those who promote it.<\/p>\n

A recent Harper\u2019s Bazaar piece<\/a>\u00a0claimed, “The Catholic Church Has No Moral Argument on Abortions,” in response to Cardinal Dolan\u2019s condemnation of New York\u2019s radical abortion law<\/a>.\u00a0The piece has the common refrain of abortion advocates: X group is \u201cdisqualified\u201d from speaking on abortion. The author states, “The Catholic Church, given it now admits to forcing some nuns to be sex slaves, doesn\u2019t seem well positioned to lecture on what women should or should not do with their bodies.” While these are horrific and sensational crimes, they are unrelated to the Church’s ability to teach something that it has taught for 2,000 years. The clear goal is to discredit the entire organization based on the atrocious actions of a few.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s been a rough time for faithful Catholics. We\u2019ve been caricatured by politicians. And those who once told us that abortion should be \u201csafe, legal and rare\u201d now have made it dangerous, imposed and frequent. Read my full column in the @nypost<\/a> here: https:\/\/t.co\/iwYqZXY6A6<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Cardinal Dolan (@CardinalDolan) January 29, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n