Q: Let’s delve right into the issue at hand. At the recent bishops’ meeting in Baltimore, you said this: “We have lost 50 times as many children in the last 35 years as we have lost soldiers in all the wars since the Revolution. I think any bishop here would consider it a privilege to die tomorrow to bring about an end to abortion. If we are willing to die tomorrow, then we should be willing to, until the end of our lives, to take all kinds of criticism for opposing this horrible infanticide.” Could you explain a little bit more about the point you were trying to get across?
A: I think that the way abortion has been presented over the past 35 years so often is that this is something that’s horrible, and we need to stop it. But it seems to me that people do not realize that it is 50 million children that we have killed.
We have campaigned to save the baby whales, and yet we vote in pro-abortion politicians - which doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. I feel we need to be in an awareness-raising campaign to open our eyes to really see the destruction that we’ve brought about.
There should be 50 more million Americans in our midst, and anyone under 35 can look around and say, ‘Where are they?’ And, ‘I’m very lucky to be alive.’ We are grateful for all the soldiers who have died to defend our freedom. But at the same time, we aren’t making similar efforts to protect the unborn. And so that’s my concern - to raise the consciousness of all people to the atrocities that we’re committing.
