Combat the Deception

Physicians in particular have a serious duty to combat the deception of those who believe that abortion is the solution to health, family, financial and social problems. In a health-care background frequently marked by the eclipse of the sense of the inherent dignity of life, Pope Benedict reminds us that

special fortitude is demanded of doctors so that they may continue to assert that abortion resolves nothing but kills the child, destroys the woman and blinds the conscience of the child's father, all too often ruining family life. This duty, however, does not only concern the medical profession and health-care workers. The whole of society must defend the right to life of the child conceived and the true good of the woman who will never, in any circumstance, be able to find fulfillment in the decision of abortion.

 --J. Michael Miller, CSB; Courage and the Physician