Cardinal Ruini: UN Moratorium on Death Penalty should extend to Abortion

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Cardinal Ruini: UN Moratorium on Death Penalty should extend to Abortion **
Catholic News Service
by Cindy Wooden
1/4/2008
catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=26338
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Italy led the effort in the UN General assembly to call for a ban on the death penalty. Italian cardinal and pro-life leaders in Italy seek to extend the prohibition to include abortion.

ROME (CNS) - Cardinal Camillo Ruini, papal vicar for Rome, said the vast majority of Italians who hailed the U.N. General Assembly’s support for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty should think about extending the moratorium to abortion.

“I think that after the happy result obtained regarding the death penalty, it might be logical to call attention to the theme of abortion,” the cardinal said in a Dec. 31 television interview.

Cardinal Ruini told the Canale 5 news program that the proposal for a moratorium on abortion, launched before Christmas by the Italian newspaper Il Foglio, was an opportunity to “stimulate, reawaken the consciences of all to help them recognize that a baby in its mother’s womb really is a human being” and that abortion is the taking of a human life…

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Since on a previous thread it is prohibited to debate both the DP and Abortion I started this thread for that purpose. Moderator if you want to move this thread please do.

I believe that these subjects are two sides one one coin.
 
You forget. In the Secular Relativism, you cannot kill the guilty, but you can murder the innocent. :mad:
 
If the proposed ban on the death penalty included a ban on abortion, it would never have been proposed. And if it had been proposed like that, it would never be accepted.
 
vern_humphrey said:
If the proposed ban on the death penalty included a ban on abortion, it would never have been proposed. And if it had been proposed like that, it would never be accepted.
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Yet it is the way it should be written to be fair. No being should have its life ended except by natural means (God’s time).
 
KathleenElsie said:
Am I alone in agreeing with Cardinal Camillo Ruini?:confused:
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I agree with the cardinal that Italians should think about it. I don’t think such thought will accomplish a lot, but it’s good to reflect on our policies, and possible changes.
 
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