Catholic Bishop: Pro-Life Groups ‘Not Really Pro-Life but Merely Anti-Abortion’
Many self-described “pro-life” groups are not really pro-life, one Catholic bishop wrote in a blog post last week.
The blog post by Bishop Robert Lynch of St. Petersburg, Florida mainly dealt with accusations raised by the Population Research Institute. The pro-life group has attacked Catholic charities operating in Africa for allegedly providing contraceptives and working alongside family planning groups.
But Lynch also complained about pro-life groups in general.
“I am convinced that many so called Pro-Life groups are not really pro-life but merely anti-abortion,” he wrote.
The bishop observed that pro-life groups were silent about the execution of a severely mentally ill man in Florida. John Ferguson, a 65-year-old paranoid schizophrenic, was executed by the state of Florida via lethal injection last Monday.
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