Washington, D.C. - American Life League urges the Nevada Supreme Court to halt forced abortion proceedings by Washoe County District Court judge Egan Walker on a 32-year-old mentally disabled woman. Pleading for the life of the preborn and the rights of all citizens, Paul E. Rondeau, executive director of American Life League, issued the following statement:
The evolving court case in Nevada on government-mandated abortions, usurping individual rights and infringing on religious freedom, is both a sad commentary and a klaxon warning of the growing assault on freedom in this great country.
It is particularly confounding that, with families already waiting to adopt this baby (even if he or she is a special needs child), courts will defend abortion as a right to privacy; but when a parent decides to keep a child, the court does not automatically assume that same legal precept.
Uninvited and without compelling interests, the state has intruded into a private matter to suggest, under the guise of health risks, that aborting a child because the mother is mentally disabled supersedes both the legal guardians' and mother's wishes.
We urge the residents of Washoe County, Nevada-and the nation-to protest this attempt by the government to impose the basest form of secularism on private citizens, contrary to common sense, our Constitution, and our traditions.
While we pray for the preborn child, this young woman, and her parents, we also pray for this judge.
Media inquiries, please contact Margaret Ekam at 540.659.4171 or mekam@all.org.
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American Life League, cofounded by Judie Brown in 1979, is the oldest national Catholic pro-life education and advocacy organization in the United States. For more information, please visit http://www.ALL.org
