As a collection that claims to want to “protect the poor and vulnerable,” one would expect the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) to be particularly sensitive to Catholic teaching about the sanctity of human life at its most vulnerable stages. Given the sheer volume of surgical abortions – around 50 million since the CCHD began awarding grants in the US – and countless millions of additional abortions from contraceptives – one would expect the CCHD to recognize that our most abused and vulnerable population is the pre-born. No other social evil remotely approaches the magnitude of these numbers, although, in terms of human misery and evil consequence, the breakdown of family life probably runs a close second. Catholics, with an amazing body of social teaching literature at their disposal, know this – or should. Yet, we find many of CCHD’s grantees are actually working against protecting these most exceedingly poor and vulnerable people…