Fr. Frank Pavone: The Golden Rule
"So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you" (Matthew 7:12). This teaching of Jesus, called the Golden Rule, makes it pretty easy to evaluate how we should treat others, particularly others in need. Jesus tells us it applies "in everything." That includes in pro-life strategy. "Do to others what you would have them do to you." It applies when the "others" are unborn children, living and growing in their mothers' wombs, and scheduled to be aborted. We are to do to them what we would want others to do to us if we were in the same situation. I once asked a pro-abortion person if he would prefer to have been aborted. His response was, "I would not have known the difference." And thus he avoided answering the question, which was whether he would prefer (now) to have been aborted (then), not what he would or would not have known then. Put another way, if you were in danger of losing your life and could not rescue yo...