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Anti-Coerced Abortion Bill “Absolutely Necessary” Say “Silent No More” Leaders

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Leaders of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, the nation's largest network of women and men testifying to the harm they endured from abortion, said that a Wisconsin bill to help prevent coerced abortion is needed not only in that state, but across the country.

"In recent months alone, we've seen numerous high profile news stories about women threatened and intimidated by their parents, boyfriends, and others into having abortions," said Georgette Forney, Co- Founder of the SNMAC. "I know from talking to thousands of women that these are not isolated cases. I also know that the pain and torment caused by abortion can only be magnified when a woman submits involuntarily to the taking of her child. I don't see how anyone could oppose this measure."

Janet Morana, another SNMAC co-founder, added, "The Wisconsin bill only requires an abortionist to determine if the woman's consent is voluntary and to provide her with information on available services should the doctor determine that she's at risk of domestic abuse. It's a small step toward protecting women from this kind of violence, but it's absolutely necessary." Wisconsin's bill to prevent coerced abortion has passed the Assembly Judiciary Committee and is awaiting a vote by the full legislative body. Seven other states have passed similar measures.

Since the launching of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign in 2003, 2,326 women and men have shared their testimonies publicly at 189 gatherings in 44 states and six countries where more than 15,000 spectators have heard the truth about abortion's negative after-effects. More than 4,100 people are registered to be Silent No More. Raising awareness about the hurtful aftermath of abortion and the help that is available to cope with the pain are two of the Campaign's goals.

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    God loves you .

    One solid aspect about any suffering a person does is his increased awareness of others’ suffering. Some old Jesuit in my past noted that ’the poor are among the most generous persons about precisely because they know poverty so well’. So, too, any suffering – the maimed women, victims of abortion, reach out to each other, suffering to suffering.

    Three years of public ministry found Jesus Christ, Son of God, Son of man, without even a place to put his head. How often did He and His band scrounge for food, of a day? He was rejected at home in Nazareth – ‘just some carpenter’s son’ – and tested over and over by scribes and Pharisees about even His most gracious ways. And, riding into Jerusalem to acclaim, He had to feel the stark irony of it all. Next week, the crowd would be shouting for His blood. In but a few days, but having instituted Church, priesthood, the Mass and the Eucharist before His salvific life was lost to us, nearly prostrate with trepidation in Gethsemane, one of His own betrays Him into kangaroo-style justice, rejection by His very first vicar for His Church, Roman style beating for a provincial at their mercy and death beneath the dignity of the worst criminal. And, His pure and most saintly mother, who washed His little body hundreds of times in His youth, had to witness her perfect Son awash in His own blood.

    Jesus understands us so well, in our sufferings. Beyond Israel’s small confines, pagans still sacrificed their infants to Moloch. He knows how it feels, even in having His body nearly stretched to the dismembering point.

    Truly, we are all but God’s children who must run to Jesus, and follow Him wherever He leads us.

    Remember, I love you, too

    Reminding that we are all on the same side – His,

    Pristinus Sapienter

    (wljewell @catholicexchange.com or … yahoo.com)

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