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[lucymeadhbh]

Greetings all,

I’m depending wisdom of this forum, which is always in a large supply

Basically, a couple of weeks ago someone posted on here about abortion, stating that surely with the world the way it is, it is preferable to abort the child etc. (I don’t mean to sound flippant about this, but this argument is trotted out so much, both here and in other outlets).
In reply, one poster said that by aborting a child would be damning her soul, but she replied that she could always go to confession and seek absolution.

Now I know there is something wrong with her argument, I went to confession once to confess a very great sin, and I know how hard it is, but I feel I just can’t put my finger on it.
Can you tell me where I’m going wrong?

God bless,
Meadhbh

 

[Dorothy]

It sounds to me like the sin of presumption. It is thinking that one can commit whatever mortal sins they want to, and then just go to confession as though they were putting a quarter in a machine and getting a “forgiven” ticket. Where is the repentance?

 

[lucymeadhbh]

What if you confessed to the sin of presumption!?

Now I know I couldn’t do this, I know how hard true repentance is…but there must be something theologically wrong with her argument.

 

[JRS_88]

Not trying to defend her at all believe me but, she might not even know of the
sin of presumption.

 

[Crown_of_Stars]

What if you confessed to the sin of presumption!?

Now I know I couldn’t do this, I know how hard true repentance is…but there must be something theologically wrong with her argument.

Dorothy was right. It would make it the sin of presumption, although there can be a different argument if the person didn’t realize fully that they were doing this. There are always the three conditions that make a sin a sin… Grave matter, full knowledge, full consent.