New Program Unmasks Truth About Abortion

by Bill Fancher and Jenni Parker
October 25, 2004

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(AgapePress) - A groundbreaking new television series is about to expose viewers across the nation to the many faces and voices of real women who have experienced abortion and who want to see an end to the legal murder of unborn children in America.

The Justice Foundation has put a breakthrough television program called "Faces of Abortion" on the Sky Angel satellite network. Foundation director Alan Parker calls this presentation a unique new weapon in the fight against legalized abortion. "It's the first time in American history," he says, "that women who want to see Roe v. Wade reversed are going on television three times a week to tell the stories of what their abortion did to them so that America will know the truth -- that abortion hurts women."

In addition to the" Faces of Abortion" television series, Parker says a corresponding radio program is also airing with the same title. He notes that several of the women featured in the series were at a recent news conference telling their stories of post-abortion depression, sterility, suicide attempts, miscarriages, still-born births, increased chances of breast cancer, and other abortion-related medical problems that have devastated their lives, and the program is already producing positive results.

"We've had many women call us after watching "Faces of Abortion," because a few episodes have already begun to air," the Justice Foundation spokesman says, pointing out that many women confess they felt liberated by hearing these women talk about their experiences. "They say, 'I thought I was alone in my shame and my sorrow and the secrecy,'" he explains, adding that many women open up and admit their own pain "when they hear other women are willing to come out and join their sisters in telling the truth that abortion hurts women."

The program, officially launched last week, is part of an initiative called Operation Outcry, through which women whose lives have been devastated by abortion are being given the opportunity to share their stories with America. Parker says he expects this program will help turn the tide in the battle against legalized abortion.

But while the people behind Operation Outcry and other pro-life supporters seek to bring about the overturn of Roe v. Wade, dedicated Roman Catholics are expressing deep concern over the fact that presidential candidate John Kerry, a self-proclaimed Catholic, has vowed to uphold and defend so-called "abortion rights" in America. In light of some of his comments during recent debates and appearances, many conservative Catholics have come to deplore the Democratic senator's apparent understanding of what it means to be a member of that church.

In one instance, John Kerry quoted a passage from the book of James, saying that "Faith without works is dead." But then, while the senator claimed his religious values would guide him as president, he asserted that he would not be led by Roman Catholic teachings in his work as a public official. Kerry made it clear that he believes, at least when it comes to his views on abortion and embryonic stem cell research, it is not his task to "write every doctrine into law."

But Judie Brown of the American Life League says Kerry's rhetoric is inconsistent, and that the candidate's appeal to scripture and justification of his pro-abortion stance in virtually the same breath is an obvious contradiction. "Of course it is," she says. "Instead of faith without works being dead, little babies are dead because of his position. He's an absolute heretic."

But of even greater concern, Brown says, is what failed to happen after Kerry made these remarks. She notes, "One thing that truly upsets me as a Catholic is that, the day after that debate, not one bishop -- let alone all the bishops in unison -- condemned his comments. To me that is outrageous, and that is what's causing all the confusion in the Catholic Church. It's because the bishops have no guts."

In a prime example of the confusion Brown mentions, a lay movement is currently underway to excommunicate Kerry from the Catholic Church while, at the same time, a group calling itself the "Catholic Voter Project" is encouraging members of the church to forget John Kerry's stances against Roman Catholic doctrine and vote for him anyway.

The pro-life spokeswoman calls the "Project" an offshoot of the liberal left wing of the church, one that is promoting an "absolutely "outrageous" moral and political course. She asserts that the Catholic Church is very clear and distinct in its teaching on abortion, and because Kerry's position on abortion is equally clear, the choice for church members is a no-brainer.

"We know that, according to Catholic teaching, abortion is an act of murder," Brown says. "Therefore no Catholic can in good conscience vote for somebody like John Kerry, and if they do they are committing a sin. I mean, it's very simple."