By Hilary White
August 25, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com)
– Jim Caviezel, the actor who took the film world by surprise with his
moving depiction of Christ in 2004, said this week that abortion has
nothing to do with helping women and that he is willing to risk his
career to say so.
Caviezel gave an interview with the US magazine Catholic Digest, in
which he spoke about the challenge he received from a colleague to
adopt a disabled child as a demonstration of his well-publicized
pro-life stand. Earlier this year Caviezel adopted his second child – a five-year-old girl with a brain tumour from the Guangzhou region of China.
Reflecting
on the 51.5 million surgical abortions to date in the US since Roe v.
Wade, Caviezel began by saying, "I was listening to Johnny Mathis the
other day and I said, 'What an amazing voice'. I have yet to hear
another person sound like Johnny Mathis.
"Look, I am for helping
women. I just don't see abortion as helping women. And I don't love my
career that much to say, 'I'm going to remain silent on this'. I'm
defending every single baby who has never been born. And every voice
that would have been unique like Johnny Mathis's. How do we know that
we didn't kill the very child who could have created a particular type
of medicine that saves other lives?"
Caviezel told interviewer
Julie L. Rattey that the Christian is obliged to act in accordance with
his faith, regardless of the risks. He compared the injustice of
abortion to that of the mistreatment of women in some Arab countries.
Caviezel's
latest film, "The Stoning of Soraya M," released in June this year, is
based on a novel that purports to tell the true story of a woman stoned
to death on a trumped up charge of adultery in modern Iran. The novel's
author, the late journalist Fereydoune Sahebjam, was dedicated to
exposing injustices in Iran under the Islamic regime.
"The man
who wrote this book chose to get involved in something that cost him
his entire life. There were many a bully who went after him. They had
been hunting this man down for years."
"When you go to church on
Sunday, it's absolutely worthless unless you apply what you've learned
to your everyday life. What I hope they take away is the same story
Jesus tried to tell years ago, which was the Good Samaritan. At some
point, we all play a character in the Bible. We all think of ourselves,
Oh, I'm Peter. I'm Paul. I'm John. I'm Jesus (laughs).
"But nobody says, 'I'm Pontius Pilate'."
Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
With Adoption of Second Disabled Child Jim Caviezel Makes Good on Pro-Life Convictions http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/apr/08042907.html
Reclaiming Our Children: A Blog About Healing After Abortion 
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