Matt C. Abbott
Pro-life physician challenges school principal
By Matt C. Abbott
Michael T. Ross, MD, president of the Family Rights Coalition of Michigan, sent the following (slightly edited) e-mail to Carolyn Witte, the principal of Mercy High School who was the subject of my Feb. 7, 2007 column.
Michael T. Ross, MD, president of the Family Rights Coalition of Michigan, sent the following (slightly edited) e-mail to Carolyn Witte, the principal of Mercy High School who was the subject of my Feb. 7, 2007 column.
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Dear Ms. Witte,
As a devout Roman Catholic, a father of three (including a daughter now in college), a physician and president of a family advocacy group, the Family Rights Coalition of Michigan, I am deeply disappointed by your lack of confidence in the Mercy High student body, their families and the organizations that serve your school as demonstrated in your cancellation of Mr. Dan Flynn's presentation, 'Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood.'
Every day your students endure the stark and cruel realities of a culture of death that promotes wanton sexual indulgence, disrespect for the human body and spirit, systemic abuse of children and evil idolatry. Once in college, your graduates will be besieged by the rapacious culture of darkness intent upon their moral disintegration.
As a Catholic educator, your job is to prepare the young people entrusted to your direction to face the cultural war targeting them as they transition to adulthood. As a physician who has seen the evils of Planned Parenthood and the institutional promotion of sex and abortion within my own profession, I understand the plight of today's young people who are lost without spiritual direction and at the mercy of an American culture devoted to the extirpation of God and the elevation of narcissism.
I assure you that your students are not too sensitive and are unlikely to misunderstand the message of Mr. Flynn's presentation. Have you any idea what your students are already seeing, discussing and experiencing in the secret silos of their lives? Try taking a guided tour through Facebook to see what many of our Catholic school graduates and their public school peers are doing at private, public and Catholic colleges and universities across the nation.
Ms. Witte, please pray about this. I assure you that I will pray too for your discernment.
I hope you will reconsider. You may find Unprotected by Dr. Anonymous, a UCLA psychiatrist who exposes the impact of college culture on women students, and The Marketing of Evil by David Kupelian to be useful references.
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