In spite of an avalanche of protests, Cherie Blair gave her talk at the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum)and was warmly received by the members of that institution.
Fr. Bruce Williams, a professor of moral theology at the Angelicum, publicly supported her, saying from the floor: "It was crystal clear to me at least that you see abortion as morally repugnant and that you are in line with the teaching of the Church.” He added: "the way you came across was decisively contrary to the way you have been pictured recently by a number of websites that describe you as pro-abortion and anti-family and which protested against our university giving you a platform. What you have just said inclines me all the more to think that those accusations were at the very best rash, if not outright calumnious, and I regret that you were subjected to that.”
Poor Cherie, subjected to the calumnies of pro-life organisations and bloggers. Just to make things crystal clear for those of us who have apparently misunderstood Mrs Blair's position; how did a person who finds abortion 'morally repugnant' come to lend her (public) support to International Planned Parenthood, the FPA and CEDAW?
