Jan 12, 2010 / 17:30 pm
Following the U.S. Bishops' announcement of their grassroots campaign to encourage the faithful to speak out against federal funding of abortion, the Knights of Columbus is calling upon its members to become active in voicing Catholic concerns as well.
“Knights and their families are strongly urged to contact their Senators and Congressmen during the recess, and ask that they support the House language authored by Representative (and brother Knight) Bart Stupak (D-MI), which retains the long-standing policy against federal funding of abortion,” reads an official statement from the Knights of Columbus.
Speaking on the topic of politicians and the Catholic conscience, Supreme Knight Carl Anderson expressed his concern in a recent column, saying that those who have argued that they were “personally opposed” to abortion but unwilling to “impose” that view on the rest of the country are now guilty of the same principle that they have tried in earnest to avoid.
“By working and voting to include abortion coverage in health care legislation, several Catholic politicians stand at the precipice of being the deciding votes in forcing a particular immoral view on their fellow Catholics, by forcing them to fund abortion through their tax dollars,” Anderson stated on Dec. 7, 2009.