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Father Raymond J. DeSouza: How motherhood stopped being a motherhood issue

By ADF Alliance Alert

Fr. Raymond J. DeSouza writes at the National Post: "Motherhood issues are not what they used to be. When Stephen Harper selected maternal and infant health as Canada's signature issue for next month's G8 and G20 meetings, he likely thought it about as controversial as maple syrup. After all, who could be against providing basic hygiene and health care to pregnant women and their offspring? For lack of basic medicines and primary health care, women in many poor countries suffer needlessly, as do their infant children. Maternal deaths in childbirth and reductions in infant mortality are among the easiest developmental issues to tackle; a relatively small investment yields significant reductions in lives lost. So how did such an apparent motherhood issue become mixed up in abortion politics?"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on May 20, 2010 (boomark / email).