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Actually two questions:
Why does the Church accept abortion if the mother's
life is threatened? My pro-choice friends have asked me
that. Why doesn't the Church make a stand against people like
Pelosi, Biden, Kennedys, who are Catholic and support
pro-choice? I have trouble explaining that one and for
the life of me I can't see how those people could
receive Communion and know that they support abortion? Thank you. |
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Answer by Judie Brown on 7/15/2013: | ||||||||
Dear SKYLINE The Catholic Church does not accept abortion in the case of a mother's life. Here is
the official teaching, enunciated by Pope Pius XII: Every human being, even the infant in the mother’s womb, has the right to life
immediately from God, not from the parent or any human society or authority.
Therefore there is no man, no human authority, no science, no medical, eugenic,
social, economic or moral “indication” that can show or give valid juridical title for
direct deliberate disposition concerning an innocent human life - which is to say, a
disposition that aims at its destruction either as an end in itself or as the means of
attaining another end that is perhaps in no way illicit itself. Thus, for example, to
save the life of the mother is a most noble end, but the direct killing of the child as a
means to this end is not licit. Aa far as Bishops reprimanding Catholics like Pelosi and Biden, I think you should
read my book: THE BROKEN PATH: How the Bishops got lost in the weeds of
American politics. Judie Brown |
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