Catholic Fire

The president of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco , encouraged doctors who defend life and oppose abortion to exercise their right to conscientious objection in response to the decision by health care officials to allow the sale of the abortion drug RU-486. In an interview with the Italian daily Avvenire, Cardinal Bagnasco warned the decision encourages Italians to view “abortion as a contraceptive, something that law 194 absolutely forbids,” and he expressed his “sadness, bitterness and care” over the position of health care officials, which he called a “crack in our society.” Where there is no respect for human life, the cardinal went on, “from conception in its fragility and later during its course, society is less human. That the right of the strongest thus prevails is bitter.” Behind this society, he added, “is an individualistic culture, hidden under respect for the freedom of women,” who “in reality experience a tragedy, live in suffering and worry; w...

As I write you today, the situation in Uruguay is extremely perilous! The agents of death are intentionally sacrificing the women and unborn of Uruguay in order to establish an abortion beachhead in Latin America. A loophole in Uruguay's laws allows for "abortion counseling" in public hospitals. Acting as "counselors", abortion advocates tell vulnerable women that they'd be better off killing their babies ... and that abortion is a "reproductive right." Official statistics reveal that 90% of Uruguayan women "counseled" in this way choose to have an abortion. Once they do, medical personnel tell them how to obtain the drug Misoprostol in pharmacies or on the black market ... and how to use it at home in order to abort their babies. As you know, however, taking Misoprostol alone does not always result in an abortion. It's only half of the RU-486 regimen. And the callous individuals in Uruguay who are telling women to take Misoprostol kn...