Trial testimony said to show truth behind abortion support

Published: 2004-04-20

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The graphic and often disturbing testimony about abortion at trials in San Francisco, New York and Lincoln, Neb., "provides a telling backdrop" to the scheduled April 25 demonstration in Washington in support of legal abortion and other issues affecting women, according to the U.S. bishops' chief pro-life spokeswoman. "This demonstration is not for some abstract notion of 'choice,'" said Cathy Cleaver Ruse, director of planning and information in the bishops' Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities. "As the testimony shows, it is for a very real, very cruel and very painful way of killing nearly viable and even post-viable unborn children." The "March for Women's Lives" is sponsored by groups that include Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the plaintiff in the San Francisco trial.

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