Interested persons are urged to arrive early to ensure seating at Sunday’s presentation at Saint Agnes Church when two national leaders, Robert George and Harold Cassidy, in the rights of women and children will hold a public conversation on The Dobbs Decision.
Professor Robert George, Director of the James Madison Program at Princeton University, and Harold Cassidy, a leading attorney nationally on women’s rights, will also be live streamed during the 90-minute presentation, drawing another 750,000 viewers online for a program which will also be filmed and available around the nation in the future.
In an interview this week, Cassidy, who is formally from Atlantic Highlands, said the program, “The Dobbs Decision and the Past, Present and Future of the Pro-life Cause” is being held in his former parish for many reasons, but the one important to him is because “St. Agnes Church holds a special place in my heart.”
Cassidy said the program will also include a brief video as well as some historic still shots focusing on the conversation between him and Dr. George, recognized as the leading natural law theorist in the world.
Cassidy himself has gained a reputation for protecting the lives of women in matters of abortion, citing numerous cases where women who have had abortions without being properly advised of all the adverse consequences of the procedure have suffered severe depression and ultimately suicide in the wake of their actions.
The attorney guided the writing of the South Dakota legislation in 2005 which sets the rules for counseling laws, and now compels providers to tell women they are taking the life of a whole, separate, living human being before they undergo abortion procedures.
With large crowds from throughout the state anticipated at Sunday’s program at St. Agnes, Cassidy confirmed there will be overflow seating available should the church reach capacity.
The attorney, who has been married 53 years and with his wife, Randee, has four children, and nine grandchildren, grew up in Atlantic Highlands after the family moved here in 1953. He graduated from St. Mary’s High School in South Amboy, traveling daily by train to school before he graduated in 1966.
During the interview, Cassidy spoke of the numerous cases, files, briefs and arguments during the 19-year battle he and other attorneys waged in court before famed boxer Reuban Hurricane Carter was freed from prison after 19 years serving for murders he did not commit. Cassidy said he met once again with the fighter shortly before his death in Canada where Carter had taken up residence and become a citizen. Carter autographed his newer book for Cassidy at the time, enclosing some personal sentiments for Cassidy’s persistence and determination.
Speaking on depression as a result of abortions by some women, Cassidy recalled a matter he handled in tine 1980s involving Riverview Hospital and a woman who was released from care against major opposition and the women committed suicide shortly after by hanging herself.
The attorney will highlight his belief in the four specific rights of women, the manner in which women have been forced into abortion, and other areas lesser covered in the media but would be national scandals if detailed to their full extent.
Cassidy also praised fellow conversationalists Sunday Dr. Robert George, whose books and legal papers have covered Conjugal unions, marriage, natural law, contemporary ethics and civil liberties.
Following the presentation, the speakers will answer questions from the audience before a soloist present a musical ending for the program and attendees are invited for refreshments downstairs in the church hall.
