Your Excellency - Please Stop Cooperation with Abortifacient Providers

When you count abortions from chemical and mechanical methods, there have been 308,000,000 in the United States, since Roe v. Wade (cf, Pharmacists for Life International ).  Your Excellency, most of the world's "leading" manufacturers of "the Pill" are either in your diocese or very close to it:

• G.D. Searle / Pharmacia of North Peapack, NJ
• Gynétics of Lawrenceville, NJ
• Janssen of Titusville
• Merck of Whitehouse Station, NJ
• Ortho-McNeill of Raritan, NJ
• Pfizer of Morris Plains, NJ
• Warner-Chilcott of Rockaway, NJ
• Women's Capital Corporation (actually the "Plan B" division of Teva of North Wales, Pa)
• Wyeth of St. Davids, Pa. (See http://contraceptive.ippf.org/search?search.searchtext=&search.countrycode=US and http://www.thepill.com/aboutortho-get.).

With its geographic proximity to the manufacturers of these poisons, Trenton bears special responsibility to be forthright and prophetic.  Yet your Bishop's Annual Appeal currently seeks matching gifts from Merck, Pfizer, Wyeth!

According to Plan B's manufacturer, you can "Enter your zip code...to see which pharmacies in your area may carry Plan B One-Step^®."  Unless it can be ascertained that the following pharmacies are NOT actually selling Plan B and are NOT selling other abortifacients and contraceptives (See One More Soul, Pharmacists for Life International), their inclusion in parish bulletins would be highly inappropriate, to say the least!:

• ACME PHARMACY (260 DUNNS MILL RD)
• ACME SAV-ON (multiple locations)
• ALEXANDER'S TWIN PHARMACY
• ALLENTOWN
• BENECARD SERVICES
• BOYD'S (multiple locations)
• BRIARWOOD
• BRUNSWICK PHARMACY
• BURNS (MORRISVILLE, PA)
• CAGAN'S
• CVS (multiple locations)
• EPISCOPO'S (multiple locations)
• EXPRESS PHARMACY
• FAMILY PHARMACY LLC
• HAMILTON DRUGS & SURGICALS
• HAMILTON PHARMACY
• HEALTH CARE PHARMACY
• HERITAGE
• HIGHTSTOWN
• KING BOULEVARD
• KMART
• L C BOYD
• MAST PHARMACY & SURGICAL SUPL
• McGRATH
• MEDICAL HOME PHARMACY
• MERCER PHARMACY
• MONUMENT PHARMACY
• OLDEN PHARMACY
• OMNICARE
• PHARMCARE USA
• PLUMSTEAD
• QUAKERBRIDGE PHARMACY
• QUICK CHEK (1535 PENNINGTON RD)
• QUICK STOP FOOD STORE
• RISOLDI'S
• RITE AID (multiple locations)
• ROBBINS
• SHOP RITE (multiple locations)
• SIEGEL'S
• SUPER FRESH
• THRIFTY DRUG
• VILLAGE PHARMACY
• VIZZONI'S
• WALMART (multiple locations)
• WEST TRENTON

At the current time, the bulletin for at least one Trenton-area parish carries ads for Episcopo's, Olden, and Vizzoni's (With unparalled audacity, the Episcopo ad notes: "Also available FRANCISCAN MISSION ASSOCIATION Mass Cards.").  The bulletin for at least one other Trenton-area parish carries an ad for Vizzoni's.  The bulletin for another Trenton-area parish carries an ad for McGrath (with the note: "Member of the Diocese").  While some other parishes may have inappropriate bulletin ads, they prevent the ads from showing in the online versions.