Catholics Must Vote to Defend the Right to Life and End the Crime of Abortion

Catholic Online ^ | 8/31/16 | Deacon Keith Fournier

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With the Presidential election in the United States upon us the allegations of "single issue politics" are again being leveled against anyone who condemns procured, legal abortion as immoral and evil. ...We even find people within the Church again attempting to fold the crime of procured abortion into a misguided interpretation of Catholic Social Teaching which pushes a false moral equivalence... Catholic Christians should not vote for any candidate who denies that the fundamental Right to Life must be recognized and protected in the civil law ...voting carries with it its own moral obligation. Not voting can have the effect of helping elect a candidate who denies the Right to Life.

Faithful Catholic Christians must affirm that all human persons are created in the Image of God and have a fundamental Right to Life. They have an inherent dignity - at every age and stage of their lives. This truth informs our respect for every human life, whether that life is found in the first home of the mother's womb, a wheelchair, a jail cell, a hospital room, a hospice, a senior center, a soup kitchen or on a refugee boat. However, life begins in the womb and that is where that right attaches.

Legal abortion as a "right" was manufactured out of whole cloth by a United States Supreme Court which exceeded its authority, rejected the Constitution, precedent and the Natural Law, embraced junk science, and used a false historical narrative to find a nonexistent "right" in the "penumbra" of the Constitution. In doing so, the Court unleashed the continued shedding of innocent blood. None of this is about "choice". Most thinking people will acknowledge that some choices are always and everywhere wrong. Killing the innocent is the prime example. The younger the victim, the more egregious. ...

[COBOL2Java]

I have no idea what you’re talking about - you think I’m clergy?

[DungeonMaster]

I think they have to be guilty about the sin of global warming now. I guess that makes abortion a good thing.

[pgyanke]

[Campion]

1. He's not a "devout Catholic". I can say I'm a picked pear, but that doesn't make it true.
2. He should be attending Mass. For him not to do so would be committing yet another sin. Not sure what "church functions" you mean, but it's fine that he attends them, too.
3. He should not, in his current state of life, be receiving Communion. Ever. At all.
4. It's wrong for his paramour to attend any sort of "function ... with him as his companion," because it gives scandal.