The Deacon's Bench
From The Catholic Herald:
In a new book-length interview with the French journalist Guillaume d’Alançon, Cardinal Raymond Burke says that when his mother was pregnant with him, she became seriously ill and a doctor advised her to have an abortion.
According to Cardinal Burke, the doctor said: “You already have five children, it is important for you to be in good health so as to take care of them.”
“My parents refused,” says the cardinal, who is now chaplain to the Order of Malta. “My parents told him that they believed in God and that Christ would give them the necessary help. My mother gave birth to me, and everything went well.
“I was therefore quite touched by this question of defending human life, because I could very well have been killed.”
In the book, entitled “Hope for the World,” Cardinal Burke argues that the “ferocious attack against life today” results from “the distortion of the sexual act by contraception,” and urges Catholics to defend human life.
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