[semimojo]

Catholic moral teaching acknowledges that not all issues have the same moral weight. There are some issues, particularly abortion and euthanasia, that always have a higher moral gravity because they are intrinsically evil acts that constitute the direct killing of innocent human life. Supporting such fundamentally evil acts is a mortal sin.

What about someone who opposes abortion and works to minimize its frequency yet thinks the state should stay out of it?

Is not wanting the government to control these decisions really a mortal sin?

[PTBAA]

If you believe that the core functions of government are to protect life, liberty, and property, then no, government can’t stay out of it.

And promoting a system that removes government’s protection of life so that others may murder innocents for convenience, is a mortal sin.

[Campion]

Once we start saying that government shouldn’t protect the right to life of the weakest and most defenseless against the claims of the strong and the powerful, “government” ceases to have any meaning or purpose.