Jesuit Professor Describes His Pro-Life Conversion

This is a great example of why it is important for us to persist in our prayers for those who are ensnared in the culture of death.

Via Tim Drake at the Cardinal Newman Society:

Reflecting on the 40th anniversary of the Roe v.Wade decision, Jesuit Father John J. Conley, Knott Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Loyola University Maryland took the occasion to write an article in America magazine. In "An Unwelcome Anniversary," he describes how he went from a “personally opposed, but abortion should be legal” position to a pro-life position.

“As the pro-life movement continues its resistance, the case against abortion has become stronger than ever,” he writes. “The omnipresent sonogram has graphically advanced it.”

Advancing the pro-life argument, Father Conley also talks about the very real threats of euthanasia and infanticide.

“For those of us called into the pro-life movement, the defense of the right to life of the innocent can never become just one cause among others. It is the great cause, as compelling as our ancestors’ struggle against slavery or on behalf of labor,” wrote Father Conley. “…the struggle to protect the lives of the vulnerable at the dawn and dusk of existence is the pre-eminent civil rights issue of our age.”