San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone recently urged the faithful of his Archdiocese to vote against a ballot proposition that would target pregnancy resource centers in the city and increase abortion access.
“Why would anyone want to stigmatize a primary health care facility and a pregnancy resource center that give pregnant women support for having their babies? San Francisco Ballot Proposition O on the November 5th ballot would do just that,” Archbishop Cordileone began in an explanatory video.
CatholicVote previously reported that Proposition O would mainly target pregnancy resource centers by placing signs outside the buildings directing women where to find abortion facilities or contraception. The proposition also states that San Francisco would “identify and allocate funding that supports access to abortions and emergency contraception services.”
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Archbishop Cordileone reiterated a previous statement from the Archdiocese in his exhortation to Catholics in the area, arguing that signage outside pregnancy resource centers would open up “employees, volunteers, patients, and clients of life-affirming, state-licensed health clinics” to additional targeting and violence.
“This flies in the face of the measure’s language that states: ‘People in San Francisco should always be able to access reproductive healthcare services free from coercion, threat, violence or fear.’ Having babies is something that falls under reproductive health care!” Archbishop Cordileone pointed out.
“If we want to create a civil society, we must affirm across the board support for human life,” the archbishop concluded. “That means alternatives to abortion and euthanasia, repealing the death penalty, and working to end all racial and ethnic discrimination. I urge you to vote NO on Proposition O.”
LifeNews Note: Hannah Hiester writes for CatholicVote, where this column originally appeared.
