Council 112 Respect Life Report January 2007

Tony Marino is an Air Force veteran who later received a degree in English Literature at Long Island University. For more than 30 years, he was an insurance agent for Aetna before eventually becoming a private insurance consultant. Since his retirement in 2003, he has devoted himself to the service of St. Peter's Parish in Concord and the Right to Life movement in New Hampshire. Tony has been married to his wife, Annette for more than 40 years. They have ten children and 22 grandchildren.

In my last essay, I discussed consequences, and pointed out that whatever we do, or fail to do, carries with it a consequence. Over the last thirty years, at the minimum, the people of New Hampshire, whether Catholic or non-Catholic, have not been paying attention to what has transpired in the place they call home. The resulting consequence is that New Hampshire has adopted a most dangerous set of laws surrounding subjects like woman’s health and safety, and protection for the unborn.

I recently contacted the web site of Americans United For Life, and discovered the following: New Hampshire makes no provision for even minimal protection for women considering an abortion. It is ironic, that whenever there is a challenge to any statute which abortionists claim limit abortion, for example the recent statute requiring parental notification, they invoke, in the challenge to that statute, the requirement of a healthcare exception. Yet, in New Hampshire, there is no informed consent law, there are no abortion clinic regulations, and there are no restrictions on who may perform that abortion. The only protection of any kind for a women seeking an abortion was the parental consent law, which is presently under challenge, and will most likely be repealed by the new Democratic House and Senate. So let us summarize the abortion atmosphere in New Hampshire: An abortionist, whose only license may be a driver’s license, can open an abortion “clinic” in a store front, and start performing abortions on women who need not be told what will be done to them. This is what the health and safety of women means to the abortion lobby.

What about protection for the unborn, or new born. In New Hampshire, an abortion is allowed anytime during the nine month period of gestation. This means that a baby’s life may be terminated, by that non-licensed abortionist, right up to the moment of birth, whether or not the mother’s life is endangered. Further, the killing of a baby, outside the context of abortion, is not a criminal offense, but thankfully an attack on a pregnant women resulting in a still-birth or miscarriage is at least considered an assault.

In New Hampshire, the abortionist is protected from regulation, but licensed healthcare providers are not even provided with protection for rights of conscience. A healthcare provider receives no protection, under the law, for refusing to participate in an abortion. It must therefore be assumed that a Catholic RN, who is prohibited from participating in an abortion, by her conscience and Church Law, and any RN who sees abortion as an evil, receives no protection from the State. The same is true of healthcare providers who refuse to participate in human cloning, destructive embryonic stem cell research, or any other form of immoral medical research. It is no wonder that some political leaders trumpet New Hampshire as a pro-choice State. I hope that over the next two years, pro-lifers can create a groundswell of support for the Culture of Life and reverse the atmosphere described above.

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