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Being a politician is a free choice. No one is forcing anyone to run for public office. Being a Catholic is a free choice. No one is being forced to join the Catholic Church.

Catholic politicians who can't reconcile their political positions with the teachings of the Catholic Church need to either leave politics or leave the Church.

Further more, it should be obvious to rational voters that Catholic politicians who vote "pro-choice" are either stupid or dishonest.

**Catholic politicians who can’t reconcile their political positions with the teachings of the Catholic Church need to either leave politics or leave the Church.**

Amen, I second that. Again and Again.

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1 Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion,
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2 Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life. "A
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2 From its conception, the child has the right to life. Direct abortion, that is, abortion willed as an end or as a means, is a "criminal" practice (GS 27 § 3),
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gravely opposed to the moral law when this is done with the thought of possibly inducing an abortion, depending upon the results: a diagnosis must not be the equivalent
URL: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2274.htm