Immigration is a 'pro-life' issue, Catholic activists tell lawmakers
By Michael O'Loughlin
National reporter | January 20, 2015
As anti-abortion activists make their way to Washington for Thursday’s March for Life, a group of Catholic leaders is urging lawmakers to include immigration in their pro-life platforms.
“Our nation’s inhumane and flawed immigration policies leave migrant women, children, and families abandoned by the side of the road,” said a statement with more than 100 signatories, including the presidents of 31 Catholic colleges and universities.
The statement, which ran as a full-page advertisement in Thursday’s Politico, backed by the DC-based advocacy group Faith in Public Life, calls on “elected officials and all Catholics to defend the sanctity of human lives at all stages. We recognize the image of God in the migrant at the border, in the prisoner on death row, in the pregnant woman and in the hungry child.”
Pope Francis, who has made immigration a hallmark of his papacy, earlier this week laid to rest rumors that he would visit the US-Mexico border during his September visit to the United States.
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