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Pro-life Doesn’t Mean Supporting Others’ Choice to Abort

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Question:

Can you be Catholic and pro-life if you support another person’s choice to abort, the reasoning being that we should not impose our values on another person?

Answer:

To remind someone of something that is important is not imposing one’s values on that person. By revealing himself to us, God has not imposed his will on us. He has given us great freedom by which we can reject him and all that he has revealed. But if he refrained from revealing himself to us, we would not have the freedom to choose to follow him.

To fail to remind someone that abortion is the taking of life from an innocent human being can be robbing that person of the freedom to choose life.

Further, to help someone to take innocent life is to be partly responsible for the taking of that life.

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