The unborn child in the womb is not respected or acknowledged as a person with rights. If we were in a theater with 4000 people, and I started killing a person every 25 seconds would anyone stop me? Would anyone say stop?

For the unborn baby it’s all about being wanted. Standing in front of a Planned Parenthood in MD, I had a woman yell at us, saying this was an “unwanted baby.” She actually said “baby.”

Some Pro-life people, and all abortion supporting people do not recognize this personhood. How could 52% of catholics vote for a pro-abortion guy? They don’t think this evil is really evil.

May God have mercy on us.

Jim McFillin
Great Mills, MD

Perhaps you do not believe man can know precisely when a child is imbued with a soul, but I suspect that you would agree that once that event occurs, that person is undeniably a human being – a person. If we cannot know precisely when this happens, how can we justify the killing of that being strictly on the basis of how one feels?

Consider an adult accused of murder. Certainly in many cases witnesses or others involved may “feel” and believe with all their heart that a suspect is guilty, yet that is insufficient cause to convict. We must be convinced of guilt through circumstance and fact before we can convict, and if we do not possess sufficient knowledge to make such a judgment then we are compelled to protect the suspect. Why would this not be true for the unborn, who no one accuses of any crime and who only exists as the result of external circumstances?

You might argue that the idea of the soul is in itself an item of faith and religion and is not shared by everyone. However if this point could be proven then perhaps we would not be having this debate. Does this then justify proceeding along the lines that since we cannot know, we can do what we like?

I am willing to listen but until I hear you reasonably address this point, and explain why we can allow destruction of the unborn despite our inability to know the status of their soul, I must in all conscience oppose you in every way I am able.

At least ten years ago, over our mug of breakfast coffee, my husband asked, “If abortion is really murder, are we doing enough to stop it?” The answer was, “No.”

Sadly, it still is.

This is a battle that must be fought until no other people are at risk for murder in the womb ANYWHERE in the world.

Seems like a tall order, I know, but with the correct strategies and God’s grace this scourge against the littlest among us will be eradicated from global laws.

Father Pavone, thanks for keeping our unseen, unborn brothers and sisters before us and giving them a voice.

As always, you are out there shining the light of the Truth and exposing the fruitless works of darkness, no matter where they originate. Satan has been very effective at infiltrating Catholic institutions (universities, primary and secondary shools, newspapers, websites) to sow deception and confusion and create the divisions within the Church.

Thank you for your tireless efforts to protect the unborn and all those who are being marginalized.

Yours in Christ.