Dorothy Day: Abortion and Contraception are Genocide

I love Dorothy Day. I pray for her canonization. But I love her prophetic voice.

I feel that, as in the time of the Desert Fathers, the young are fleeing the cities--wandering over the face of the land, living after a fashion in voluntary poverty and manual labor, seeming to be inactive in the "peace movement." I know they are still a part of it--just as Cesar Chavez and the Farm Workers' Movement is also part of it, committed to non-violence, even while they resist, fighting for their lives and their families' lives. (They, together with the blacks, feel and have stated this, that birth control and abortion are genocide.)

I agree with them and say--make room for children, don't do away with them.