Spanish Archbishop Francisco Gil calls out those who reject the war to liberate Iraq while tolerating self-imposed evils at home:
Archbishop Gil said the national and international media were rightly “outraged” by the prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Grab but that this was “Snow white in comparison to what happens with the aborted unborn: most of them are dismembered, others are poisoned, others are cut to pieces. After 21 weeks, the mother undergoes a caesarian and the fetus is extracted alive and left to die.”
The archbishop compared the number of abortions carried out in Spain during 2004 with “the horrors of Nazism and Stalinism.” The data from that year was “chilling,” he said, as abortion in Spain was up 6.5% from the previous year, 27% of women have had more than one abortion, 23% of abortions are performed after the 12th week of pregnancy, and the average age of women who have abortions continues to go down. The archbishop said estimates are that during the last 20 years since abortion was legalized in Spain, “almost one million innocent and defenseless lives have been taken.”
“The horrors of Nazism and Stalinism are not far off in this society that calls itself and presumes to be progressive and democratic. It is not an exaggeration to state that we are facing a totalitarian situation, where the strongest impose their will on the weakest.” This is occurring, he said, with “at least the tacit consent of politicians and the mass media.”
Totaltarianism is rightly rejected for the reasons His Excellency outlined, regardless of where or how it happens in the world.