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"Vote Pro-Life" radio ad begins airing nationwide today
Knights of Columbus spot features beating heart of
10 week old unborn child
New Haven, CT - September 23, 2008 -
A
30 second radio spot encouraging people to "vote
pro-life" in the November elections begins running on
radio stations around the United States today. It will
continue to air until the November 4 election.
The ad features the sound of an unborn baby's heartbeat
at 10 weeks, and the voice of a woman saying, "Listening
to this makes me wonder - why would anyone question that
her life has begun?" It concludes with the words, "Vote
your heart. Vote Pro Life."
"The fact that the child whose heartbeat we hear is
alive is simply a matter of science," Supreme Knight
Carl A. Anderson said in announcing the beginning of the
ad campaign. "We believe that it is vital that
America's pro-life community make it clear that they
will reserve their votes for candidates of either party
who are committed to protecting life from conception to
natural death."
Anyone can
listen to or
download the ad from the Knights of Columbus
website, www.kofc.org.
A similar ad is planned for broadcast in Canada, where
general elections are set for October 14, 2008.
The Knights of Columbus is the world's largest lay
Catholic organization, with more than 1.75 million
members in North and Central America, Asia and Europe.
Last year, Knights donated $145 million and more than 68
million hours of volunteer time to charitable causes.
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Open Letter to Senator Joseph Biden on abortion
Supreme Knight Carl Anderson sent
an open letter to Senator Joseph Biden on Friday,
September 19, challenging the assertion of the vice
presidential candidate that Catholic teaching on
abortion is not clear. The letter was published in
USA Today, The Washington Times, Philadelphia
Inquirer and Wilmington News Journal, among others.
Writing "as a fellow Catholic layman," Anderson
said that "statements that suggest that our
Church has anything less than a consistent
teaching on abortion are not merely incorrect;
they may lead Catholic women facing crisis
pregnancies to misunderstand the moral gravity
of an abortion decision."
Anderson noted that the founders of the United
States "believed that we are 'endowed by [our]
creator with certain unalienable rights,'' and
that first among these is 'life,'" and he
appealed to Biden, "as a Catholic who
acknowledges that life begins at conception, to
resolve to protect this unalienable right."
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