Your Honor, a unique human individual begins to exist at the moment of conception,” Fr. Fidelis told Judge Paddock in a prepared statement. “In a sane, civilized society that new human being would have his or her right to life clearly recognized in the law.”
“But we do not live in a sane, civilized society,” he said. “Since Roe v. Wade in 1973, we live in a nation, Your Honor, that has permitted the legal destruction of millions of innocent children.”
“As a Catholic priest, I must say to this Court that abortion is murder and no law or court decision can make legitimate what is intrinsically evil,” Fr. Fidelis continued. “Legalized abortion is an abomination in the eyes of God.”
