We celebrate our third Pro-Life Day on the Feast of the Visitation at the end of May. The choice of this Feast to promote the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death is particularly appropriate, in that the reality of the unborn Word of God having been brought to visit and to bless his cousin John the Baptist, causing the latter to leap in the womb for joy, to emphasise the human dignity and rights of the unborn, which we can now visualise with 4D ultrasound technology from early pregnancy.
 
Yet nowadays, the assault on the dignity and rights of unborn children continues unabated and with increasing ferocity. Within modern marriages, children have become less of a precious gift from God and more of an object of desire. Like other...