Now it’s on me

Well, that certainly caused a fuss didn’t it? I refer to my entirely reasonable discussion of a pro-life activist called Mary Wagner, who insists on entering abortion clinics against the wishes of the staff and patients, knowing she will be arrested. I was extremely respectful in my arguments and merely asked if Wagner was doing any good, was perhaps further marginalizing the pro-life movement, and wondered if this was even about the unborn.

There were two counter-point columns in this newspaper and a full page of letters. If only there were such passion over, for example, genocide, world hunger, racism, poverty, war or homelessness. One of the letters was from Wagner’s mother, Jane. This surely cannot be the same Jane Wagner who wrote on a Catholic blog that I was “spiteful and childish” and that my “deplorable” article should never have been allowed to be published in the first place?