The overwhelming support the House gave for the Vatican's role in the protection of innocent human life before birth and its commitment to objectivity rather than ideological manipulation, is a glorious historical moment for the Holy See, the House of Representatives, America, and the unborn throughout the globe. Moreover, words and phrases it customarily used to discredit others were now being thrown back in its own face. Whatever spin CFFC continues to use in order to discredit the 416-1 vote against it can only backfire. It also assaults the religion that it professes to uphold. Catholic World Report reported in January 1994 that when Frances Kissling joined CFFC she no longer considered herself a Catholic.
Society has little tolerance for public hypocrisy.
CFFC's humiliation, it is fervently hoped, will precipitate its long overdue demise. Dr. DeMarco is a professor of philosophy at St. Jerome's University in Waterloo, Ont .