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Mary Ellen York, a member of St. Mary Parish in Eugene, was raised by her mother and grandmother in the Midwest. When she became pregnant at age 16, her mother made her have an abortion.
The cycle repeated the following year, when she became pregnant a second time. At 18, York was raped, again became pregnant, and chose to undergo her third abortion.
“I hated myself,” York says, choking up as she recalls the trauma. “And I figured God hated me, too…how could he forgive me for doing such horrible things?”
In 1994, York was nearly killed in an automobile accident. It took her two years to recover — a recovery that was labeled a “miracle” by her physicians.
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he closing speaker was Bobby Schindler, brother of Terri Schindler Schiavo. The disabled Florida woman died in 2005 after she was kept disconnected from feeding and hydration, even after a reconnect order from Congress and appeals from her family as high as the U.S. Supreme Court.
Schindler told the rapt crowd that his sister’s cause was weakened because not all Catholic ethicists in the U.S. supported Pope John Paul’s teaching. Food and water, the pope said in 2004, are basic care to be provided to patients in a persistent vegetative state.
“You wonder why we have the confusion we have,” said Schindler, thanking the Vatican for its clear statements on the issue. One cardinal said later that those who stood by and did nothing to save Schiavo are accomplices in murder.
“The question is not ‘Would anyone want to live like my sister?’” said Schindler. “It is, ‘What are we going to do to take care of these people?’”.....................
Love proclaimed best way to promote dignity of life
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