Only a born fanatic would want to add any more heat to the abortion issue. I found your editorial this morning " A 12 -year-old's choice " ( Oct 16 ) - reasonable. Nothing wrong about the " pro-life " religious institution HELPING a 12 year old girl HAVE her baby. The "pro-choice" crowd - let's face it ! - would help her to KILL it.
In opposing abortion the Catholic Church is only being faithful to a 2000 year old faith. But a CITIZEN of a free democratic country must have a broader perspective on abortion - simply as a CITIZEN.
This is NOT a Catholic country. Nor is it a Protestant or a Jewish country. And it most certainly is NOT an atheist country.
How to permit abortion without outraging religious sentiments ? Would it not have been better if -instead of this Roe vs,Wade mess - we had simply decriminalized abortion ? Not every SIN can become a CRIME in a secular society ?
When I was a kid in Catholic school , the Church did not seem to obsess on the evil abortion. Catholic women did not have abortions. And Catholic doctors did not perform them.
The Church was always more effective as religious force than as an arrogant political force.
And SIN would not be SIN unless we could freely choose it. " A man has a choice ", James Dean says in " East of Eden ". A woman should also have a choice - even an immoral one.
Is there no moral compromise on this abortion issue ? Or must one group be completely crushed politically ?
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