God says very specifically in black and white in the Torah...
Transliterated from the Hebrew:
“Hachayim v’hamavet natati lefenekha, habrakha v’haklalah; uvkharta vakhayim l’ma-an_tkhiyeh atah vzarekhah.”
Translation to English:
“I’ve put before you life and death, blessing and curse; choose life so you and your offspring would live.” (Deuteronomy 30:15)
Commentary from the rabbis about it.
http://www.shomreitorah.org/choosing-life/
‘Uvkharta vakhayim’ (Choose life!) These are as powerful as any words in the Torah. But what do they mean? What does Moses mean when he says ‘choose life’? How do we choose life? The Torah and Judaism give many answers, in fact, this portion itself, gives a few: to love God, to follow the mitzvot. The portion we just read gives us answers, but I believe that the question, “What’s it mean to choose life” is much bigger than one explanation. And so today on the morning of Yom Kippur, I want to try to answer this question through a very specific lens–through the lens of Yom Kippur: The Day of Atonement. I want to explore what this phrase means, uvkharta vakhayim, to choose life, through the lens of this special day. This day when we forgive and are forgiven.
This line from the article caught my eye:
"... the church upholds her moral authority to make the decision"
Nobody has the 'moral authority' to kill an innocent human being. Not the man, not the woman; not the military, not the medical profession; not the Church, and not the State. Not with a bomb, abortion or a baseball bat.
How can anyone imagine that such "authority" even exists?