MANCHESTER, September 3, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A priest of the diocese of Manchester has stood up to the abortion organization that wants to move into his parish neighborhood. The pastor of St. Kentigern’s Catholic Church in Fallowfield, a suburb of Manchester, is working to prevent Marie Stopes International from opening a centre for abortions. Fr. Tom Connelly calls the proposed centre a “house of death and carnage.”
In keeping with the abortion movement’s record of setting up facilities in poorer neighborhoods where low-income and single mothers can be targeted, Marie Stopes plans to open the new abortion facility next door to a homeless shelter. The area also has a high population of students and young professionals who are statistically more likely to seek abortions. Fr. Connelly says. “Work is going on to adapt the building to do away with the unborn. This is a house of death and carnage. The lively children of the homeless hostel will be playing next door to an abortion clinic.” He says that two of the workmen contracted to work on the building came to him repenting of the work and looking for absolution. Britain has one of the highest rates of abortion in the western world and among the highest rates of abortion by younger women. Abortion figures for 2003 published last week by the Department of Health show a 6.6 % rise in the Greater Manchester area to 8643, with 42% of those are committed on women aged 18 to 24. 1004 of the women were under 18. Fr. Connelly has encouraged protesting in front of the building. To contact Fr. Connelly: [email protected] tv