Catholics and Voting Pro-Life: Social Justice Begins in the Womb

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Catholics and Voting Pro-Life: Social Justice Begins in the Womb

Catholics make up about one quarter of the American electorate, and the majority of the Catholic vote has gone to the winner in every presidential election since 1972.

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“I have set before you life and death…Choose life! (9 Deuteronomy 30:19)”

Abortion is an ongoing tragedy. Genetics and fetology make it clearer every day that abortion kills a human being. Some of us accept that evidence and choose life. Others cling to their own ideology and show the stubbornness of the Pharisees. The evidence is right before our eyes; however, some on this forum think that is just my opinion! The refusal to know that there is a child in the womb is a sin. “If you were blind, there would be no sin in that, but ‘We see,’ you say, and your sin remains (John 9, v, 41)”

Communism is the final logic of dehumanization of man, such as we find in the practice of abortion. Communist China practices abortion on a grand scale, and so does the United States. I think that Communist China has found an ally in the United States in carrying out its abuses of dehumanization!

If you knowingly and willfully vote for a candidate who promises to protect abortion “rights,” such as Obama, you have committed a sin. This is especially true for Catholics who have 2,000 years of Church teaching and tradition to back them up. (By the way, some of what I posted came from the Catholic Church’s teaching in the 2nd century.) A voter who votes for a candidate who supports abortion has intentionally and deliberately helped someone who promotes a violent and destructive activity, abortion That vote is similar in seriousness to openly supporting abortion.
 
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If you knowingly and willfully vote for a candidate who promises to protect abortion “rights,” such as Obama, you have committed a sin. This is especially true for Catholics who have 2,000 years of Church teaching and tradition to back them up. (By the way, some of what I posted came from the Catholic Church’s teaching in the 2nd century.), A voter who votes for a candidate who supports abortion has intentionally and deliberately helped someone who promotes a violent and destructive activity, abortion That vote is similar in seriousness to openly supporting abortion.
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Suppose you work for an electrical contracting company. Today your boss sends you out on a job that you find out is to connect electrical service to a new abortion clinic. Despite your request to be relieved of that particular assignment your boss insists. Is it a sin to keep your job and go out and perform the work?

I ask this because it seems that the absolute prohibition on doing anything that might indirectly benefit abortions is restricted to voting alone and does not apply to any other area of life. What is so unique about voting that only that kind of indirect cooperation is automatically a sin while other kinds of indirect cooperation are not?
 
Some healthcare workers have chosen to lose their licenses rather than violate their consciences, some would rather keep their licenses than “rock the boat”, and yet others choose to look the other way and change their definitions of right and wrong or throw out the concept of morals altogether. However, in all those situations I pray for those put in that position because they were all given the opportunity to take up their crosses, and not all of us think to ask for the strength to carry them.
 
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Some healthcare workers have chosen to lose their licenses rather than violate their consciences, some would rather keep their licenses than “rock the boat”, and yet others choose to look the other way and change their definitions of right and wrong or throw out the concept of morals altogether. However, in all those situations I pray for those put in that position because they were all given the opportunity to take up their crosses, and not all of us think to ask for the strength to carry them.
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This does not answer the question I asked for two reasons. One is that healthcare workers who give up their licenses rather than participate in abortions were avoiding direct involvement, not indirect as in voting. And second, many acts of faith, while admirable, are not a sin if you don’t do them. And what I was getting at was the question of whether the electrical worker would be sinning by performing the electrical work on the new abortion clinic, not whether a refusal would be admirable.
 
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