However I want to talk about it in ways that we rarely hear from Right to Life Committees on any level including the parish, the diocese and the nation. There are those in Respect Life who prefer to make abortion the only issue. The Holy Father has touched upon them. He has spoken repeatedly of how right to life entails creating a world in which the well being of every human being is a central focus of every society. He has spoken of how societal sin, which is built into the structures of our communities and cultures, most especially in prosperous ones such as our own, keeps people from the lives of respect and dignity that they merit as human beings.
People suffer in our midst.
They are right here with us in this room. It is not something that is happening elsewhere. Yet even with that it remains easy to ignore them. We can do that in many ways. Reaction out of misinformation is a major one.