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I suggest you read the entire piece. As Vere notes, the women know that abortion is wrong. Removing the censure is not the same thing as saying abortion is not a grave sin, a position of the Church that Vere supports. On the other hand, censures and penalties should be directed where they will be most effective. In this case, excommunicating the politicians and doctors who make abortion possible would do much more good than excommunicating the women who procure them.

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"I suggest you read the entire piece."

I suggest you try being a little less condescending. I did read the entire piece.

"Removing the censure is not the same thing as saying abortion is not a grave sin"

Yes it is. There is a moral duty to censure grave sin. If the Church isn't censuring a thing, then it can't be taken seriously as a grave sin.

"In this case, excommunicating the politicians and doctors who make abortion possible would do much more good"

It's not an either/or dichotomy. The relative amount of good to be accomplished by the one action as opposed to the other is not an argument that either should be abandoned.

There's no reason that everyone associated with baby-killing shouldn't be excommunicated. That a mother doesn't have even enough faith to refrain from killing her own baby is hardly an argument for defining murder down.