[Apologetics] National Catholic Register Editorial: We Won't Go Away

[Art Kelly]

We Won’t Go Away

America, we won’t go away. Many people wish we would,
and heaven knows we would rather be doing almost
anything else. But we can’t go away, and we won’t.

BY the Editors
January 21-27, 2007 Issue
Posted 1/17/07 at 8:00 AM

I’m sure you’ve seen us. We may have made you angry,
or sad, or we may have made you turn quickly away and
find something else to look at.

You may have seen us two days before Christmas outside
the Planned Parenthood building. The old man with the
rosary, the college kids in sweats, the sad-looking
woman clutching brochures and an “I Regret My
Abortion” sign — that was us.

Maybe you felt offended that we stuck abortion in your
face as you rushed out to do last-minute shopping,
cheered by Christmas songs on the radio. Well, we felt
offended that the “clinic” was open that day. We
wanted to enjoy ourselves, too.

Or maybe you heard one of us at a town meeting you
attended at the school or the senior center. Maybe it
was a savvy young woman lawyer that you heard voice
the pro-life argument. Or maybe the voice of the
pro-life movement you heard was a halting, nervous
voice that got a little too angry or whose words got a
little too tangled. In either case, that was us, too.

We may have made you uncomfortable that day. We’re
sorry for that. But we’ll be there again at the next
town meeting, too. And the next. And the next.

We won’t go away, and we won’t stop talking about
abortion. We won’t 

The full editorial from the National Catholic Register
is at
http://ncregister.com/site/article/1767/



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