Recognizing the Right to Life in the civil law is not a matter of pushing "religious" beliefs on a pluralistic nation. The Right to Life is revealed by the Natural Law. When the civil law of a Nation fails to recognize the Natural Law Right to Life and promulgates laws which condone the taking of innocent life, such laws are unjust laws and therefore not law at all. Finally, medical science confirms what our conscience long ago told us. We routinely operate on these children in the womb. We send 3 and 4D ultrasound photos of them as they grow in that first home of the whole human race.
These children are members of our human family. We all know it. Those who deny it are lying to themselves and deceiving others. Legalized abortion is the denial of the Right to Life of an entire class of people backed up by the police power of the State. It is an egregious, ongoing, human rights violation which demands our continual efforts to eradicate it.
The language surrounding legal abortion reveals an Orwellian newspeak. Phrases such as "Abortion rights" are dangerous. Abortions do not have rights, only human persons have rights. Human rights are goods of human persons. When there is no human person to exercise them, all the rhetoric extolling them is sloganeering. When there is no recognition of a preeminent right to life, what follows is an erosion of the infrastructure of all human rights.
Recognizing the Right to Life is not only a political issue. The Pro-Life position is a worldview, a lens through which we view every political, cultural, social, economic, security and international issue. This worldview must also inform every aspect of our participation in society, including how we vote...
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 when another candidate is available who recognizes that fact. This is the case even when the alternative candidate may not fully comprehend all of the implications of that recognition. In good conscience, if there is no difference on this matter between the candidates, one could hypothetically refrain from voting. However, 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.
We should determine which candidates' positions will move us closer to ending legalized abortion, work to influence them and surround them with good counsel, and then vote for them. If they are elected, we must then do all we can to expand their understanding of the truth concerning the Right to Life and its vital implications across the public policy spectrum.
Certainly, the Right to Life has implications not only in the womb, but throughout the entire spectrum of life. The embryonic human person, the child in the womb, the disabled, the needy and the elderly are all members of our human family. We can never condone their intentional killing as some kind of exercise of a "freedom to choose".
However, human life and the Right which protects it, begins in the womb. Procured abortion is never a moral choice but a crime, whether the civil law of the State currently prosecutes it or not. Political candidates who deny this Right to Life are complicit in this crime and must not be supported...
The Child in the womb is our first neighbor and it is always and everywhere wrong to take the life of an innocent neighbor. And, the Pope is right, there is absolutely nothing "progressive" about legal abortion. It is regressive, moving us backward. Our failure to recognize the Right to Life in the law undermines our claim to be a compassionate and caring society. All the talk about compassion for the poor rings hollow when we fail to hear the cry of the ones whom Teresa of Calcutta rightly called the "poorest of the poor".
There can be no enduring lasting solidarity upon which to build a secure future in a culture that kills its own children and calls it a right. No politician or political candidate who advocates for legalized abortion, or for euthanasia, passive or active, should ever receive the support of Catholic Christians. They are being morally incoherent.
Before that happens, millions of “Catholics” need to be excommunicated.
Sterilize most of africa and most of the middle east and otherwise decent people won’t fear bringing kinds into the world.
Eliminate evil to make more room for good.
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Archbishop Blase Cupich says getting aborted is no worse than being unemployed or “undocumented.” Archbishop Charles Chaput says there’s no difference between a lifelong abortion fanatic and a pro-life candidate. The Pope says that Emma Bonino, who has aborted 10,000 babies, is “one of Italy’s forgotten heroines.”
“Catholics Must Vote to Defend the Right to Life and End the Crime of Abortion”
Most Catholics supported their god in the white mosque in 2012, and the “pope” pimps out the Fraud’s agenda as well.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-campaign-religion-idUSBRE8A71M420121108
How can anyone condone or accept the killing of any innocent human being?
We expect to live in safety and we intend to lock up those that cause bodily harm or death to others for their crimes, but we allow the death of an innocent human being (that can’t defend themselves)for their personal convenience.
Why should we support or vote for anyone that supports or allows anyone to harm an innocent human being? Especially Catholic Democrat VP candidate Kaine (Clinton/Kaine)?
God is not pleased with us!
You can say whatever you wish against the Catholics but they were our only line of defense in this country against abortion for years...
I am a Protestant and I was pro-life before pro-life was cool...
The Catholics were the only place to go if you wanted to join hands in any organized attempt to rid ourselves of the scourge of evil that is abortion...
For years protestant churches called abortion “the Catholic issue” and refused to aid in the fight...
How different our social atmosphere might be today if Protestants had only “humbled” themselves and helped end abortion...
a “Catholic issue” ???
...but the daughters of Protestants were murdering the grandchildren...
2012 RC vote 0bama 50% Romney 48%
The national vote was 0 51% Romney 47%
Catholics have always had the option to vote their consciences.
Some do.
Is there a FReeper priest who might confirm that any penitent has ever confessed to voting Democrat? It would seem the RAT support of sin like homosexual behavior and abortion would make it a sin to vote for them!
I think they have to be guilty about the sin of global warming now. I guess that makes abortion a good thing.