PRO-LIFERS RALLY IN WATERBURY
March 7th, 2006 by Peter
About 85 people, most belonging to Catholic or anti-abortion groups, waved signs outside Saint Mary’s Hospital Sunday afternoon in protest of the bill, which was drafted by the state Public Health Committee last month and which was scheduled to be discussed this morning.
The protesters maintained that the bill, if passed, would encourage abortion and violate their freedom to practice their religion.
“Every year the General Assembly attacks Catholic religious freedom,” Maryalyce Lee, president of Connecticut Catholic Alliance, said at the demonstration. “It’s time for them to let us practice our religion like the First Amendment allows us to.”…
[William] O’Brien [president of Connecticut Right to Life] also criticized Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s recent request that all Wal-Mart pharmacies carry emergency contraceptives. Blumenthal said last week that state employees will only deal with pharmacies that carry emergency contraceptives.
Sen. Louis C. DeLuca of Woodbury, the Senate Republican leader, attended the demonstration and criticized Blumenthal for his comments. The government, he said, is trying to tell Wal-Mart how to do its business.
“What Richard Blumenthal is doing is extortion,” DeLuca said. “If you and I did it, we would get arrested.”
