Don’t Bless This Clinic

A particularly ghastly attempt to justify abortion religiously shows the challenges pro-lifers still face.

Share this story

A view of the medical bed and the procedure room where abortions once took place at an Oklahoma clinic, June 20, 2022.

Liliana Salgado/Reuters

Around the same time that thousands of pro-lifers in Ohio gathered for the state’s March for Life last October, a smaller group of people assembled for a quite different purpose in Maryland. The Nation recently provided a dispatch of their activities at an abortion clinic in a small town in the state.

“A handful of religious leaders and people of faith” had come there, not to protest or dissuade any women inside from following through with their intention of killing the unborn life they bore. Rather, they were there to provide “a blessing for the providers and staff, and the communities they serve, to acknowledge the clinic’s work as sacred.” Their effort is egregious and ghastly. Yet it should remind pro-lifers of the challenge we face.

Jack Butler

About the Author

Jack Butler

Jack Butler is a former submissions editor at National Review.

Comments

Advertisement

Advertisement