EWTN Voter's Guide

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Hello. I understand church teaching regarding voting for a politician who supports abortion to be that after due consideration of one’s informed conscience, and a
grave moral reason such as the expected good a politician might do, that it is licit to vote for that person not because of his position on abortion, but in spite of it.
EWTN’s voter guide says the following:
this is directly from EWTN’s page on voting: <<If a political candidate supported abortion, or any other moral evil, such as assisted suicide and euthanasia, for that matter, it would not be morally permissible for you to vote for that person. This is because, in voting for such a person, you would become an accomplice in the moral evil at issue. For this reason, moral evils such as abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide are examples of a “disqualifying issue.”>>
I could not find a way to write to them directly.
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I wrote to local candidates in my area (in the U.K.), only one was against abortion but was also as close to a fascist as possible to be and interestingly was in favour of euthanasia. I had a choice to either not vote at all or vote for the candidate that I believed would be the best for the area overall. On balance I voted as I thought best.
 
AngelusDomini said:
I wrote to local candidates in my area (in the U.K.), only one was against abortion but was also as close to a fascist as possible to be and interestingly was in favour of euthanasia. I had a choice to either not vote at all or vote for the candidate that I believed would be the best for the area overall. On balance I voted as I thought best.
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I had a similar choice in my Senate election last year. Decided not to vote for Senate.
 
The Church doesn’t have any official guide on how to vote. Catholic voters’ guides are simply the opinions of the author, and while they do bring up good points, we’re free to follow them or not.
AngelusDomini said:
On balance I voted as I thought best.
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I stayed out of the recent midterm elections here in the U.S. There were no major ballot measures I felt strong about, and every race was either uncontested or between two candidates I thoroughly disliked. Sure, I could have voted for the “lesser evil” or just phoned it in and went entirely anti-abortion (as much as the Republican candidates were willing to be anyways), but either way, I would have been voting for candidates who supported a lot of stuff I hated. I also suspect this “vote for the lesser evil” attitude is contributing to more problems than its fixing.
 
Please remember I’m in the U.K. and our voting system is somewhat different. With such close results in certain areas I would not feel justified in complaining about a candidate’s actions after a vote if I had not cast one.
 
I really come from the opposite direction. There have been, and unfortunately now more often, some rather vile or unqualified people getting votes simply because they mouth the words about being against abortion. There’s always two problems with these claims to start with, you’ll never legislate abortion away and I’ve not seen one viable proposal that addresses the social issues that often lead to abortions. It’s simply a tick box. In essence you have someone making a cheap promise to do nothing for which they have no good plan.

I think the moral imperative is to vote for someone who wants to solve or at least address the social conditions that lead to abortions. Otherwise I have more pressing issues to give my vote to than a politician who is vowing, yet again, to cheat on me. Never mind that the abortion rate has halved itself in the 40 odd years it has been legal. If you are a baby boomer ranting and wailing about irresponsible millennials, or even gen-Xers (whom you were aborting) please take a look in the mirror.
 
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When you don’t find any good politician to vote according to the catholic teaching ,then find the least wicked person to vote! Its important to vote than not
 
Or simply put in a blank vote and during the next years find a suitable party or person to vote for even if you and other people have to start a new party. Write and call your politicians regularly and talk about how their decisions affect the local people in your area.
 
AngelusDomini said:
I wrote to local candidates in my area (in the U.K.),
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I think one of the best ways of getting your message across to politicians is to write to them .

SPUC have a campaign whereby you take a postcard they have produced which says you are against decriminalising abortion , put on your name and address , send it to them who will then send them all to the Prime Minster .

I did that , but because I doubt such campaigns achieve much , I then wrote my own letters in my own words , one for the Prime Minister and one for our local MP .

In the last two General Elections we have had I have not voted for the simple reason that none of the candidates support my basic beliefs .
 
I consider who is going to be nominated for Supreme Court and to be federal benches that rule for amorality and immorality, anarchy and chaos. That’s why many voted for Trump over Hillary, just imagining the judges she would put in place.
 
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