Are nuns and sisters pro-life?

[Captain_America]

It would be informative to know what percentage of female religious orders do anything in the pro-life area.

I love social justice stuff, but abortion fits into the spectrum of it all as well. It’s a part of the dignity of the person.

 

[Ad_Orientem]

I don’t know about percentages, but there is at least one Order devoted specifically to that charism, the Sisters of Life.

 

[VanSensei]

The general Catholic idea is that a Catholic is required to be pro-life, without any exceptions.

That being said, they most definitely would be.

 

[triumphguy]

I’ve met a lot of religious sisters and I’ve never met one who was pro-choice.

 

[Fairwinds]

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I love social justice stuff, but abortion fits into the spectrum of it all as well. It’s a part of the dignity of the person.

what part of being sliced into pieces fits in with your notion of dignity?

 

[markomalley]

I’ve met a lot of religious sisters and I’ve never met one who was pro-choice.

lifesitenews.com/news/archive//ldn/2009/oct/09102302

Sister Donna Quinn is one famous example.

 

[MaryandJoseph]

And the reason WHY this “sister” and the others in her group are not Ex-communicated officially?

We all must pray for her soul and those women she is “escorting” into the murderous pits of hell.

 

[datritle]

what part of being sliced into pieces fits in with your notion of dignity?

he is saying being pro life is a social justice issue because it’s about human dignity,

 

[Used2beSherryG]

It would be informative to know what percentage of female religious orders do anything in the pro-life area.

I love social justice stuff, but abortion fits into the spectrum of it all as well. It’s a part of the dignity of the person.

I am scratching my head over that last remark of yours. How does abortion fit into “part of the dignity of the person”? Can you explain what that comment means?

 

[Fairwinds]

he is saying being pro life is a social justice issue because it’s about human dignity,

I hope I misread him.

 

[Ad_Orientem]

The general Catholic idea is that a Catholic is required to be pro-life, without any exceptions.

I took the OP to be asking what orders were particularly active in specifically pro-life activities (such as prayer vigils in front of abortion clinics), not whether they believed the Church’s teachings.

 

[triumphguy]

lifesitenews.com/news/archive//ldn/2009/oct/09102302

Sister Donna Quinn is one famous example.

Never met her.

 

[livingwordunity]

And the reason WHY this “sister” and the others in her group are not Ex-communicated officially?

It’s because the only ordained clergy can be officially excommunicated. For anyone else, automatic excommunication is possible. By the way, anyone who is officially excommunicated was already in fact excommunicated automatically prior to the official pronouncement of it by the Church.

 

[Captain_America]

Obviously abortion is a blow to innate human dignity. It’s backwards and primitive and, I hope, on the way out; barbaric.

I just keep running into published comments by female religious that make it seem as though some of them, perhaps many, feel it’s being “kind to women” to allow abortion.

I also don’t see them visibly taking up the cudgels against abortion. Or at least getting media attention on this.