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Respect Life

Emmitsburg a healing place for moms in jail

May 8, 2003
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Local News, News, Respect Life

Phyllis Matthews found out she was pregnant only one day before she was scheduled to enter the Women’s Detention Center in Baltimore to serve time for heroin possission. Having a baby in prison was the last thing the 34-year old single mother of five wanted to endure, especially since she knew that her infant would be taken from her immediately after birth.

Maryland firm stops selling body parts from abortions

February 1, 2000
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Local News, News, Respect Life

A decision by a Maryland company to stop procuring and distributing body parts obtained from aborted fetuses is drawing praise from pro-life supporters who had protested the practice as abhorrent and inhumane.

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