Keith Fournier writes at Catholic Online:
There has arisen a counterfeit “rights talk” which seeks to substitute judicially manufactured “rights” such as the counterfeit “right” to abortion. One can never have a “right” take innocent human life even if the positive law of a given State declares it, it violates the higher law.
Accompanying this counterfeit “rights talk” has been a growing misuse of the Police Power of the State to enforce these counterfeit “rights” with an iron hand . . .
Finally, there is a growing propaganda effort to infer that those who insist that the Right to Life is a universal human right which can be discerned by all because it is revealed in the Natural Law are actually taking a “religious” position which has no place in policy and political discourse. Further, that because such a position is “religious” it has no place in a secular public square and must be confined within the walls of the Church, literally and figuratively.
