Pro-life expert Dr. Charles Camosy is weighing in on the debate over whether the pro-life movement has concerned itself enough with the mothers and families of unborn children.
“Don’t get it twisted,” Camosy writes in a June 24 Angelus News op-ed. “The lazy George Carlin line (parroted by so many over the decades) that pro-lifers only care about the unborn, but not people after birth, was always nonsense.”
Professor of Medical Humanities at Creighton University School of Medicine and moral theology fellow at St John’s Seminary, Camosy’s published articles have appeared in publications such as the American Journal of Bioethics, the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, the Journal of the Catholic Health Association, and the Washington Post, among many others.
Camosy points out that contrary to popular belief, the pro-life movement “has been anything but a political monoculture,” even though it draws significant influence from the Catholic Church in its promotion of human dignity for all, including mothers and families of the unborn.
The concern of the movement for women and children, he continues, is evidenced by how the 2,750 pro-life pregnancy centers in the US have shown up for women across the country.
Providing essential resources to women in crisis pregnancies, such as ultrasounds, STD testing, prenatal education programs, as well as clothing, diapers, and other material support, these pregnancy centers provide “hundreds of millions of dollars of support to women and families every year,” Camosy stated.
He continued:
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Beyond this, pro-life groups have established the rights of pregnant students on college campuses, built and run maternity homes, established networks for connecting women and families to existing resources of social support, and have even strategized about ways to make childbirth free.
“Today,” Camosy wrote, “I think it is fair to say the turn of the prolife movement to women and families is complete.”
LifeNews Note: Madalaine Elhabbal writes for CatholicVote, where this column originally appeared.
