Is Being Pro-Choice a Sin?

[bob4]

Yeah. It’s a dilemma that us non-voters don’t have to worry about.

Have you read the ‘Faithful Citizenship’ statement at USCCB.org?

 

[bob4]

Pro-choice is not the advise and even less it is the obligation to do abortion. No, the pro-choice is the system which puts the moral decision on the shoulders of woman and her partner and her local or global community (which can or may not help socially and economically to take the right decision and create the circumstances for morally good decision). I.e. pro-choice is the mechanism how the commandments and Catholic Church work. Commandments are moral advises and not the state law. Church and God teaching is the moral encouragment and not the physical law of Big State law. If God wanted to take the free choice and responsibility away from the people and communities of help and charity the God would have created theocracy or put other constraints on the free will.

From the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
2271 Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion.
This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable.
Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law.

 

[LilyM]

I’d like people to read this section Code of Canon law for Latin Rite
Code of Canon Law: Table of Contents
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.

Obviously you cannot prosecute a person who has succeeded in taking their own life.

But there was very recently a case in the US where a person was.tried for allegedly steongly encouraging her friend to take his own life.

And in the past at least attempted suicide was a crime.

At one time, very ironically, if memory serves, it was actually a capital.offemce in the UK to attempt suicide. No doubt such death sentences would be commuted to imprisonment rather than granting the would be suicide their wish to end their life.

 

[Tenzin]

Off topic, there are cases where dead bodies have been put on trial. For example, the Cadaver Synod.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

Off topic, there are cases where dead bodies have been put on trial. For example, the Cadaver Synod.

There are not such cases in the USA today, or anywhere else to my knowledge under the modern legal system.

In some cases it may be possible to sue the estate of a deceased person for damages, but you cannot prosecute a dead person for a crime.

 

[Montrose]

In some cases it may be possible to sue the estate of a deceased person for damages, but you cannot prosecute a dead person for a crime.

The UK is the same. You cannot prosecute a deceased person.

 

[jochoa]

This is to hear Catholic’s opinions on this.

To sin means to miss the mark.

In Catholicism, the mark is to freely choose to be good, as God is good.

Being Pro-Choice, in and of itself, misses the mark because it fails to declare the goal of goodness.