I’d like to respond to letter writer Rosalind Hinton regarding her comments about he closure of Planned Parenthood clinics in Louisiana. She states that Planned Parenthood did not perform abortions in our state. That is true, but only due to state laws largely preventing it.
Planned Parenthood did provide over $650,000 for travel expenses to facilitate abortion in other states. So, at their heart and with their government provided funding from our tax dollars, they certainly helped perform abortions.
As a Catholic theologian, Hinton should be well versed in the Catholic Church doctrine as stated in our catechism regarding abortion, and I quote, “Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. From the first moment of its existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person – among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life.”