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WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is being issued by the
Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities of the United States Conference of
Catholic Bishops:
WHAT: 33rd Anniversary of Supreme Court Abortion Decision
WHO: Deirdre McQuade, chief spokesperson on pro-life issues for the
Catholic bishops of the United States, is available for interview
and comment for abortion-related stories/programs on Roe v. Wade
anniversary.
As Director of Planning and Information for the Secretariat for Pro-Life
Activities, Deirdre A. McQuade is the U.S. bishops public voice on the
subject of abortion. The Catholic Church is perhaps our nations leading pro-
life voice. Through the Conferences Pro-Life Secretariat, the Church produces
educational materials that reach millions of Americans promoting public
policies that recognize the inherent dignity of all human beings, including
the unborn.
Ms. McQuade also directs the USCCBs Second Look Project
(http://www.SecondLookProject.org) which is running ads on the D.C. Metro and
San Francisco transit systems coinciding with this years Roe anniversary. The
Second Look Project seeks to educate American men and women about the actual
legal status and practice of abortion as it now exists in the United States.
It asks them to take a "second look" at many of the common presumptions
assumed to be facts about abortion. In the San Francisco area, Second Look
Project ads were recently vandalized and destroyed in the BART system trains
and stations.
"Even after more than thirty years of Roe v. Wade, abortion advocates
still want to obscure and keep people ignorant of the true extent of the
abortion license it created," McQuade said. "But as Los Angeles Times legal
correspondent David Savage has reported, Roe left no room for prohibitions on
abortion. The Roe decision, as even many pro-abortion legal experts have
noted, is based on very shaky constitutional grounds. Over three decades
later, Roe remains morally and constitutionally indefensible."
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