Reflecting on the Last Words of Christ (Part 1)
[Note: These reflections were originally posted for Lent 2011.] "Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing." (Luke 23:34) Dr. Bernard Nathanson passed away on February 21, 2011. Dr. Nathanson was a leader of the pro-abortion movement and founding member of the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (NARAL, now the National Abortion Rights Action League). He estimated that he had supervised or performed over 75,000 abortions including the abortion of his own child. He admitted that he and his associates purposely feed misinformation to the media and deliberately attacked the Catholic Church in order to change public opinion to support legalizing abortion in the late 1960’s. Then something happened. Dr. Nathanson started to question the pro-abortion claim that the unborn child was merely a collection of cells and not a human life. A longtime atheist, Nathanson still continued to support abortion rights despite his growing doubts unt...