TO THE EDITOR:
Father Eugene McKenna recently wrote a letter to the editor expressing concern that capital punishment must be kept in focus as a pro-life issue. I feel that linking all life issues has resulted in less pro-life turnout at abortion clinics to stand against the horrors being done within them. I organized the former Operation Rescue in Rhode Island. The late Father Richard Donnelly, who joined us on most Saturday mornings at the Broad Street mill, also offered holy Mass for is before our Rhode Island rescues. Another priest, Father Tom Carlton, was the spiritual leader of our first rescue. We once got 300 people to join us at the now closed former abortion mill on Atwells Avenue, an effort which may be an impossible dream to repeat today as the scope of pro-life issues vying for supporters has grown.
George Bedford, Pawtucket
