U.S. bishops launch ads they say dispel myths about legal abortion

Published: 2005-01-25

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has launched a major advertising campaign encouraging people to take a "second look" at their views on abortion. The ad campaign, called the "Second Look Project," presents basic facts about legalized abortion, according to Cathy Cleaver Ruse, director of planning and information in the pro-life secretariat. "Three decades after Roe vs. Wade, many people still do not understand basic facts about legal abortion -- like the fact that abortion is legal through all nine months of pregnancy," she said in a Jan. 24 announcement about the campaign. Ruse noted that recent polls showing support for Roe described the Supreme Court's 1973 ruling as "the decision which legalized abortion in the first three months of pregnancy." Ruse called that description "a flagrant distortion of the truth." The advertisements direct viewers to a Web site, www.secondlookproject.org, for more information.

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