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SAINT ANSELM HOSTS FORUM FOR ABORTIONISTS–MANCHESTER DIOCESE SILENT
On Monday, December 16th, the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, hosted a symposium on the politics of healthcare, sponsored by one of the Granite State’s major perpetrators of procured abortion—Dartmouth Health.
The event’s featured speaker was Philip Alberti, who is the Director of the Center of Health Justice of the American Association of Medical Colleges, a pro-abortion organization which condemns state bans on legal abortion.
The Moderator of the event was Doctor Joanne Conroy, MD. Conroy is the President and CEO of Dartmouth Health.
Dartmouth Health, the state’s largest private employer, not only performs abortions, but trains abortionists at its flagship medical facility—Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center—through the Kenneth J. Ryan Residency Training Program in Abortion and Family Planning.
Dartmouth Health also offers obstetrics training at its “partner site,” Planned Parenthood of Northern New England.
Among the panelists was the abortion activist Devan Quinn, who helped organize a “Bans Off Our Bodies” demonstration in Portsmouth in 2022. Quinn is the Policy Director of the radical New Hampshire Women’s Foundation.
Also featured were two New Hampshire state legislators, State Senator Cindy Rosenwald and State Representative Alexis Simpson, the House Minority Leader, both of whom are prominent abortion proponents endorsed by the Planned Parenthood New Hampshire Action Fund.
Simpson is the sponsor of HCR-11, the New Hampshire House resolution opposing all restrictions on chemical abortions and calling for the expansion of abortion in the Granite State.
Astonishingly, one of the participants in the symposium was Attorney Robert Dunn, the Policy Director of the Diocese of Manchester. Dunn recently appeared on WMUR TV, Manchester, on behalf of Catholic Charities, expressing concern over Medicaid funding in the state budget.
The Second Vatican Ecumenical Council condemned abortion and infanticide as “abominable crimes.”
Saint Anselm was founded by the Church’s oldest religious community, the Order of Saint Benedict. The Abbot of Saint Anselm’s Abbey is the Chancellor of Saint Anselm College.
The Members of the Benedictine Corporation are the supposed guarantors of the College’s mission and Catholic identity.
As of today, December 18th, neither the Bishop of Manchester, the Most Reverend Peter Libasci, nor the Abbot of Saint Anselm’s Abbey, the Right Reverend Isaac Murphy, O.S.B., have made any public comment on the forum.
The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts called the event “a grave scandal, a shameful betrayal of the innocent unborn, and an appalling insult to the faithful Catholics of the pro-life movement.”
Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment:
“This event was an egregious violation of Catholics in Political Life—the 2004 directive from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which prohibits Catholic institutions from giving awards, honors or platforms to those who ‘act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles.’
More grievously, the callous indifference to Catholic belief in the sanctity of innocent human life, founded upon upon Divine and natural law, and sustained by 2,000 years of magisterial teachings, represents a dreadful affront to the Author of Life.
Faithful Catholics should not be forced to fight a two-front war, against both a Culture of Death in secular society and a Culture of Betrayal in their own Church.
We cannot expect civil society to take seriously Catholic calls to protect the right to life, if those calls are ignored or even repudiated in our own Catholic institutions.
If the slaughter of the unborn is to be brought to an end, the Catholic Church must become pro-life, not only in name, but in fact.”
