Interesting Post on Clash Daily on Abortion

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Great article. You know, though, that those who support taking the lives of unborn children will have numerous reasons to object and imply it’s not a real conversation.

I, too, have known a couple of people conceived through rape, two mothers of children conceived through very violent rapes, and used to give talks with one of those women about abortion–she was VERY against it, as was my other friend.
 
While abortion in the case of rape and incest (about 2% or less of abortions) is just as much an intrinsic evil as any other kind of abortion, in the case of the USA and other countries that currently have no limits on abortion we should use the following principle when we go to vote:

“A particular problem of conscience can arise in cases where a legislative vote would be decisive for the passage of a more restrictive law, aimed at limiting the number of authorized abortions, in place of a more permissive law already passed or ready to be voted on. Such cases are not infrequent. It is a fact that while in some parts of the world there continue to be campaigns to introduce laws favouring abortion, often supported by powerful international organizations, in other nations-particularly those which have already experienced the bitter fruits of such permissive legislation-there are growing signs of a rethinking in this matter. In a case like the one just mentioned, when it is not possible to overturn or completely abrogate a pro-abortion law, an elected official, whose absolute personal opposition to procured abortion was well known, could licitly support proposals aimed at limiting the harm done by such a law and at lessening its negative consequences at the level of general opinion and public morality. This does not in fact represent an illicit cooperation with an unjust law, but rather a legitimate and proper attempt to limit its evil aspects.” - Pope John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae
 
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