Just my 2 cents here, but true Christians have always defended life. It is NOT a new development. “Thou shalt not murder.” applies. Christians were the ones who started the first orphanages, hospitals, they rescued newborns who were thrown into garbage dumps to die by their “inconvenienced” mothers. Abortion goes back thousands of years, only new methods have been developed. Sure, IVF and BC pills as abortifacients are relatively new, but pro-life is not a wholly-owned Catholic label. Pelosi, Kennedy and Kerry are prime examples of that! Still, I do appreciate the Catholic Church’s public stand on the subject and they “put their money where there mouth is”. They are not alone in this.
Thank you for your 2 cents, boatbums.
I clarified that, of course, Christians have always felt life is sacred. However, the Holy Spirit guided the Church in expanding on that in recently stated doctrine which was declared infallible dogma.
In other words, the Catholic Church, of course, has always taught that life is sacred, but recently, through the guidance of the Holy Spirit, the Church was led to declare, without any possibility of error or wiggle room, that life is sacred and that Catholics MUST not only believe that but practice that in their daily lives by avoiding contraception and refusing to support the practice of abortion in any way. That’s the newer dogma.