Is Being Pro-Choice a Sin?

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FiveLinden said:
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?
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When wondering if something is sinful, there is the objective matter and the issue of personal culpability. Those two issues are constantly confused.

It’s difficult to image how reductionist and minimalist stances toward the killing of other human beings is not participating in sin. That stance ruptures communion between human beings and between human beings and God (which is pretty much the definition of sin).

For instance: the German burghers living around concentration camps surely knew what those clouds of ash were, yet did nothing. “Our leader has a great human improvement program going on. Yes there are some casualties but we can tolerate …blah blah blah.”
We play the same games.
 
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And yet, we can. We shouldn’t, but we can.

I’m afraid I don’t understand what you’re trying to convey.
 
RuthAnne said:
It’s my right to choose and I chose not to go.
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Being able to do something and having the right to do something are not the same.

By the way you sound pretty smug about having committed a mortal sin. I will pray for you.
 
ralfyman said:
Catholics cannot support abortion.
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I thought that there were many Catholics, including famous Catholic politicians, who support
making abortion legal?
Maximian said:
We Catholics are fortunate because we know that righ and wrong are a matter of fact, not a matter of opinion.
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Is capital punishment right or wrong? Or a matter of opinion?
 
PaulinVA said:
And yet, we can. We shouldn’t, but we can.

I’m afraid I don’t understand what you’re trying to convey.
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There is a difference between freedom and license. We are moral agents with the capacity to make choices according to our free will. That doesn’t give us the license to choose sin.

Choosing sin is not an exercise of true freedom and it’s not an exercise of legitimate human rights. It is capitulating to enslavement and choosing to perpetuate injustice rather than true rights.
 
Is Being Pro-Choice a Sin?

A corollary to this would be:

Is voting for a pro-choice candidate a sin?

Sorry if someone has already asked this. I did not read the entire thread.
 
RuthAnne said:
Is Being Pro-Choice a Sin?

A corollary to this would be:

Is voting for a pro-choice candidate a sin?

Sorry if someone has already asked this. I did not read the entire thread.
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If you voted for the candidate because he was pro choice then that would be sinful. If on the other hand BOTH candidates (and they are the only ones viable) are pro choice and you voted for one for some other reason, ie one is for rape and the other isn’t, then it would be acceptable. You’re not voting for the candidate because he’s pro choice but because he is anti-rape.

(Sorry, lousy example but it’s the best I could think of right now.)

Pax
 
Yeah. It’s a dilemma that us non-voters don’t have to worry about.
 
I can’t in good conscience support either of the major candidates.
 
If you cannot vote for a major candidate, how about a third party candidate?
 
If someone is pro-abortion because they know unborn children have personhood but think “bodily autonomy” is more important than preserving human life than they are absolutely committing sin. If someone is pro-abortion because they don’t believe unborn children have personhood then “they know not what they do”.

The nature of sin is that it must be intentional. You must know you’re doing wrong.
 
I’d like people to read this section Code of Canon law for Latin Rite
https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P2H.HTM
and the corresponding one in the Code of Canon Law for Eastern Churches which is in Latin
http://www.vatican.va/content/john-...01018_codex-can-eccl-orient-2.html#TITULUS_XV

I don’t know Latin, so I am speaking on the Latin Rite english translation on the Code of Canon Law for Latin Rite. Canon 752 is one to read.
Can. 752 Although not an assent of faith, a religious submission of the intellect and will must be given to a doctrine which the Supreme Pontiff or the college of bishops declares concerning faith or morals when they exercise the authentic magisterium, even if they do not intend to proclaim it by definitive act; therefore, the Christian faithful are to take care to avoid those things which do not agree with it.
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I will support the church’s teaching. That means as a civilian I will advocate for the church and her teachings.

Below are my musings.
Outside the U.S., many countries have abortion as illegal but unenforceable. See unenforced law. I think of unenforced like a commandment. It may be a possible compromise between Pro-life and Pro-choice. This was the case in South Korea until 1973 when an exception was introduced and recently the ruling of unconstitutionally. Take for instance suicide which is a homicide but does anyone prosecute a dead body? Sorry, that was a bit dark. Yes, I do agree, everyone has free will to sin or not to sin, but for me, we shouldn’t promote the legality of murder(induced abortion).
The big question I ask myself concerning the law is
Should morality dictate legality?
P.S. I think Pro-Life should be more specific; abortion can also include spontaneous abortions(miscarriage).
 
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