A Pro Life Saint

Saint Vincent de Paul

In a road in Paris, the Rue du Bac, meaning road of the Baccalaureate, the test all French high school kids take to get into university, like our SAAT, there is a convent. In the convent is a chapel.
In the chapel there are three saints bodies some incorruptible; Saint Vincent de Paul, Saint Louise de Merrillac and Saint Catherine Laboure who saw the Blessed Mary who instructed her to cast a metal now famously known as the Miraculous Mary Metal.
Saint Vincent de Paul became famous for helping the poor and there are to this day hospitals named after him for indigents. In his day, in France, 16oos prior to the Revolution there was a class system with royalty and noblemen and ladies and masses of poor peasants who would flood the streets of Paris when their villages burned down in conflicting territorial uprisings or fights between fiefdoms of lords. Paris was full of poverty living in the streets.
Saint Vincent de Paul discovered one day that at a particular church, every day ladies would secretly drop off babies in an abandoned baby box outside the church- sometimes four in one day. With the cold, if they were not picked up within hours of not being fed in the cold they died there in the box. This was considered routine- someone daily dumped the box of dead babies, every day.
Routine until Saint Vincent de Paul discovered what was going on and was deeply outraged. He demanded that the babies be cared for- against the sensibilities and customs of the day that just resigned them to being nameless victims of poverty. The sensibilities of the noblewomen of the day resisted this because they were perceived to be born of sin and with a stigma of sin, the product of low life low class fornication- and beneath their standing to even touch. The prevailing social norm of the time was to let them pile up in church boxes in the cold outside churches until they died and then dump the church box in the woods somewhere. Now we think that a horrendous crime- how can someone let babies just sit in the cold until they die?
Can you see that this is little different than what we do in turning a societal blind eye toward babies in the womb? We do worse now, we turn a blind eye to just killing them off before they get to the church box.
And we are really efficient at it- we have a huge corporation and the government even wants to pay the corporation to do it. There is a movie everyone should see called UNPLANNED about the former Director of the Planned Parenthood in Brasos/Bryant-College Station, Texas near where Texas A&M is who saw the light of an ultrasound during an abortion that demonstrated to her what was really happening in an abortion. I Highly recommend this movie. Another one everyone in the White House should see.