Dec 31, 2020
The prolife movement has lots of heroes and heroines, sung and unsung alike, but there's always room for one more. As an addition to the roster of unsung heroes I therefore nominate Dick Delaney.
Never heard of him? That's no surprise. Besides his family and friends--and his patients, of course--not many people ever did hear of the late Richard P. Delaney, M.D. Let me tell you a little about him.
Dick Delaney loved life from conception to natural death and served it with great professional skill and devotion during a long career as a family physician. His dedication comes through in a newly published little book, For Love of Life and the Family (Serif Press), written in the form of letters from him to his first great-grandchild.
To illustrate a point the writer quotes a remark attributed to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin: "If you kill one person, it is murder, but if you kill a million it is only another statistic." Legalization has made abortion a statistic, Delaney says, and that's a disaster for society. For where legalized killing takes hold, "no other right has or can have meaning."