Is Being Pro-Choice a Sin?

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rosejmj said:
It doesn’t make one pro abortion though. Honestly, if I truly cared about stopping abortions AND helping women in those kind of situations, making abortion illegal would be my last priority as it would put many women in worse situations either by seeking out unsafe means to get an abortion or more women and children living in poverty and abusive situations and broken families.
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The problem is that because it’s legal it has become a billion-dollar industry which backs its interests by bankrolling any sympathetic politician.
 
Sure we do. It’s a sin to not go to mass. I don’t have that right?
 
The only version of ‘Pro-Choice’ I would accept is the choice of not engaging in promiscuous and adulterous acts so an abortion won’t be needed. Killing an innocent person is not acceptable.
 
I don’t know how that has anything to do with the women or children involved. People make money off unethical means… it’s nothing new. Politics now has little to do with helping the common good and politicians aren’t very morally upright in most cases so I’m also not surprised that most of them support some debatably unethical or immoral laws or policies
 
It’s about the climate of opinion. We Catholics are fortunate because we know that righ and wrong are a matter of fact, not a matter of opinion. But most people don’t think like that. Most people think that if it’s legal, and important politicians say it’s ok, and big businesses say it’s ok and spend billions on consultants who advise them how to whitewash what they do, it must be ok.

All that changes if abortion becomes illegal. Of course it won’t completely prevent abortion, but for those who never had the chance to have a properly formed conscience, at least they won’t have the abortion industry deceiving them.
 
NevermoreLenore said:
You will never get any other answer here regarding social justice. If you don’t make being antiabortion your primary decision making issue, you support and are accused of being for murdering babies. As it happens, I do not thing legislation of any kind will alter the availability and legality of abortion. I think if the goal is to minimise and stop abortion (a very worthy goal), addressing WHY women seek abortions and building the social structures to support mothers and families will be infinitely more effective. I don’t get why people fault the woman alone for ‘getting herself into that situation’ and fail to realise women bear the burden of pregnancy. It’s awesome if and when a man sticks around–personally, I couldn’t be as good of a mother if my husband wasn’t involved at least as much as I am in parenting. But even if a man is held to child support, he can have nothing else to do with a baby if he wants. I am disappointed that some men on this forum cannot cede to the notion that women carry a significant load when they are pregnant and maybe instead of trying to undo the legalisation of abortion they should address social issues like how to keep the nuclear family, healthcare, and poverty.

I know what kinds of responses this will elicit, only if it isn’t ignored altogether as often is the case. Just wanted to throw out a different way of looking at the problem; that is, work to solve the problems that contribute to a woman seeking an abortion instead of just telling her not to do it and figure out the next 18yrs on your own, which is completely dismissive of the problems.
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I think the abortion issue needs to be addressed from all sides, but I also think our society is subpar when it comes to understanding and helping pregnant women with unexpected pregnancies. Our society is also subpar in laying the moral groundwork for people to realize the horror of killing human beings in the womb, which is another side to the issue.

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Addressing the OP question: is it possible to be pro-choice and not be in good conscience when being so? Or does ‘good conscience’ require that you follow Church teaching in spite of your own conscience?

Also the vast majority of Catholic politicians and organisations opposed to freedom of choice seem to always allow for some exceptions in legislation, such as cases of incest, rape, and childhood pregnancies. Is supporting laws that allow for legal choice in these cases also a sin?
 
FiveLinden said:
Also the vast majority of Catholic politicians and organisations opposed to freedom of choice seem to always allow for some exceptions in legislation, such as cases of incest, rape, and childhood pregnancies. Is supporting laws that allow for legal choice in these cases also a sin?
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It’s not a sin if you are supporting an improvement in the existing law. It is a sin if it is a worsening of existing law.
 
Maximian said:
It’s not a sin if you are supporting an improvement in the existing law. It is a sin if it is a worsening of existing law
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I’ve heard that before and understand that. But in this case the question is about ‘being pro-choice’. I’d talk that as including being satisfied, or doing nothing about, or not making clear your objection to the exceptions to abortion prohibition. Surely you are ‘being pro-choice’ even if you are ‘a little bit pro-choice’?
 
If the intention is to campaign for the “exceptionalist” position and against a total abolition, yes, that is a sinful association with a murderous plan.
 
So is it sinful only to both? That is,
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to campaign for the “exceptionalist” position and against a total abolition
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Campaigning for the first without campaigning for the second would not be sinful?
 
Maximian said:
All that changes if abortion becomes illegal. Of course it won’t completely prevent abortion, but for those who never had the chance to have a properly formed conscience, at least they won’t have the abortion industry deceiving them.
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I am against abortion and find it really despicable.
The problem is that there really isn’t a practical solution no matter how much we want one.
If it’s made illegal then it will simply go underground as it was before.
If it’s illegal presumably there will be a punishment for the woman having the abortion and all who help her from family/friends and doctors/nurses involved.
Are you going to jail millions of people every year.

I would love to see a solution that stops abortion but frankly I have no clue what that would be.
 
I know we don’t always see eye to eye but I am with you on this one.
 
I am assuming by pro choice you mean intentionally and explicitly advocating for abortion, or intentionally and explicitly tolerating it.

Yea that would be sinful, even if one is not the direct perpetrator of abortion. Sin is not limited to the direct commission of offenses. There are also “structures of sin”. See the CCC for more.
 
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