THE Catholic Leader’s Sunday Guest Anne Rampa (26/2/12) wrote a thought-provoking column, “Building a better world through great sacrifice”, in which she tells of her arrest and the very real threat of jail time for protesting outside the Greenslopes abortion facility last Easter.
Anne also wrote about father-of-seven Graham Preston, a most admirable man, who has been imprisoned five times for protesting the deaths of the helpless unborn outside abortuaries in Brisbane.
After Graham’s release from his first jail sentence in 2003 he said words to the effect that if others understood that inside the innocuous facade of an abortion facility babies are being cut to pieces in their mother’s wombs then they would move heaven and earth and be willing to go to jail to bring about an end to the slaughter.
Food for thought?
In the mid-1980s Anne Rampa and her husband Jim began holding a vigil on the footpath outside the Greenslopes abortion mill from St Stephen’s feast until the feast of The Holy Innocents.
Graham Preston joined the vigil in 1990.
Through the years – hail, rain or shine – they, Kerry Creevey and other friends have faithfully kept the prayer vigil.
Why is it that, although the annihilation of our future citizens is the greatest social justice evil facing our country today, we seldom hear the matter raised from the pulpit?
Is it any wonder that many young people today regard themselves as survivors of abortion having undergone the deadly game of Russian roulette played by so many mothers/parents on the altar of expediency and supported by governments.
40 Days for Life is holding a prayer vigil through Lent outside an abortion clinic in Bowen Hills.
There are a number of vacant spaces on the roster in need of filling.
It’s time to stand up and be counted in emulating the heroic service of Anne and Graham in what Blessed John Paul II called the greatest work in the Church today, defending the culture of life.
JENNY DAVIES
Coorparoo, Qld
