DEACON FOR LIFE: Judie Brown: "Catholic and pro-abortion?"

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Judie Brown: "Catholic and pro-abortion?"

Judie Brown

Judie Brown
July 26, 2016

There is simply no way you can be both Catholic and pro-abortion at the same time.

The erroneous and nasty idea that someone in public life can be both Catholic and pro-abortion is once again front and center in the news.

Just recently a public figure said, "I have a traditional Catholic personal position, but I am very strongly supportive that women should make these decisions and government shouldn't intrude."

Scandalous gobbledygook has been the case for some years now. The hierarchy, for the most part, will avoid commenting on this or doing anything about it. Frankly this is not really all that shocking to me. Over the years, a pattern has developed – one that is troubling in many ways.

To read the article, click here:
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/brown/160726

LIFE IS SACRED

An example of the traditional magisterial teaching which indicates that it is never morally licit to intentionally kill a child through abortion in order to “save the life of its mother” comes from the teaching of 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.”