Posted on 05/22/2022 1:07:06 AM PDT by Cronos
It’s well-known that the Catholic Church, the largest religious body in the U.S. (and worldwide), profoundly abhors abortion, A 1965 decree from the world’s bishops at the Second Vatican Council declares that “from the moment of its conception, life must be guarded with the greatest care,” and calls abortion and infanticide “unspeakable crimes” against humanity. The church’s Catechism says the same and dates this belief back to Christianity’s first century (citing Didache 2:2 and Epistle of Barnabas 19:5).
... America’s Eastern Orthodox hierarchy has joined with Catholic leaders to affirm “our common teaching that life begins at the earliest moments of conception” and is “sacred” through all stages of development.
...At the opposite end of the spectrum, the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) advocated nationwide abortion on demand fully a decade before the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade liberalization, stating that limitations are “an affront to human life and dignity.”
The largest U.S. Protestant body, the Southern Baptist Convention, issued a pre-Roe resolution supporting broadly defined permission in cases of “rape, incest, clear evidence of severe fetal deformity” or damage to a mother’s “emotional, mental, and physical health.” The denomination later shifted rightward on doctrinal and moral matters and its 2018 resolution affirms “the full dignity of every unborn child” and denounces abortion “except to save the mother’s physical life.”
In another typical evangelical Protestant policy, the Assemblies of God urges protection of each life from conception, and deems abortion “morally unacceptable” for birth control, gender selection, or “elimination of the physically and mentally handicapped,” but accepts it in “exceedingly rare” cases of likelihood the mother will die.
...The Presbyterian Church (USA) says abortion can be “morally acceptable,” though not required, as a “last resort.”
(Excerpt) Read more at getreligion.org ...
It simply AMAZES me that we are the ones SCREAMING to save the lives of thousands of black babies YET we are deemed the racists!!
Well, still being unborn WOULD have placed a limited compendium of knowledge in the future American citizen, but when he/she starts to detect a bit of light at the end of the tunnel, he/she knows that something different is happening.
Then it appears that SCREAMING is not a very good tactic to eliminate the practice.
Indeed, and complicity is the case with us all when we fail to do what we should. TradCaths will pronounced Teddy K Catholics as excommunicated, but that is not up to them, but a judging such begins with the local ordinary and can extend all the way to the pope. Whose leadership is the one that is to be followed in Catholicism, but even Ratzinger affirmed bloody proabortion, prohomosexual Teddy K.
TradCaths who rebel against leadership based upon their judgment of what valid church teaching is are essentially acting as Protestants in so doing.
Sio true, the American demise will come from misplaced belief in the letter “D.”
We are quite proud of the FACT that we can bind and release!
John 20:23
Whose soever sins you remit, they are remitted to them;
and whose soever sins you retain, they are retained.
—Wannabe_Catholic_Dude(Hail Mary!!)
Exactly
If Roe is dropped it means each State will make the call on abortion for the citizens of their state...
Since abortion is a high profit procedure clinics will adapt to changes. They’ll connect to their ‘client base’. Today most clinics are on the edge of black communities (if there is a large black community near) because a higher percentage of black women abort their babies.
If Roe’s dropped, clinics will move to state borders shared with restrictive states. There’s too much money in this procedure for clinics to walk away. There will be charter buses and planes... moved clinics and ‘packages’.
Democrats are liars and fear mongers because the only ‘ideas’ they have are totalitarian.
There are more people who practice wicca than there are Unitarians.
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