Another morning at the abortion mill.

Yesterday, I traveled with several other seminarians and a priest on the seminary faculty to Pittsburgh to pray at the abortion clinic. It was miserably cold but there was a large group of students from Franciscan and other schools (Grove City, I think).

Everytime I go I can't help being shocked by the absurdity of it all. We stand there and pray to stop murder ... legal murder! In a country that supposedly defends the life and liberty of all its citizens, an many times the citizens of other countries, we are praying to stop the killing of innocent children and we are the radicals! There is always a group of "pro-choice escorts" there to prevent the pro-life protestors from speaking to the women (and their boyfriends/husbands/family members) who are going in. It was a little different this time because the city of Pittsburgh passed a law that restricts how close pro-life protestors can get to the people. On the sidewalk around the door of the clinic there was a painted ring that marked how close protestors could come to the door of the clinic, and the escorts even seemed more intent on surrounding the women and hurrying them in the door.

To me, it seems that they are more interested in the women having abortions than they are in "choice." If the pro-abortion forces were interested in choice, pro-life groups would be given equal time to state their views.

This isn't very thought out, sorry. It just astounded me that it has come to this: groups of people, pro-life and pro-abortion, standing outside, freezing ... over murder. To me there isn't a question here: Abortion is murder. If women need help having a child, we should help them. The morals of our country and society are so backwards that we have laws that aid in commiting murder and have made it a something that only "extremists" fight.