As said, it is up to one’s conscience. Maybe one should research it and read Vatican documents for themselves or the numerous essays written on it.
Yes, I am painfully aware of this.
You better not vote at all then, because the Republicans will affirm the ‘right’ of states to murder their citizens via the death penalty. Oh yeah, and they’re likely to send Americans overseas to die as well. Plenty of destruction of human life will continue to occur, and may expand, with a republican in the White House.
I have no problem with taxation for the common good. I have problems with taxation to pay for abortion, sterilization, and contraception and the myriad government programs that promote all of them. I have problems with government educational programs that are sadly lacking but seek to curtail parental choice in education. I have problems with working away from my family to provide money for those “in need” to have things I passionately believe to be anti-God.
So Millions of soldiers are dying? Millions of unfortunate incarcerated men and women are dying? No. It’s a matter of scope and scale. This isn’t either/or, we should work to change death penalty laws. We should try to end unjust wars. But we can’t throw the babies, ha-, out with the bath water. Millions of babies have died–55 Million plus–since 1973. So that has to be stopped. We have to keep pushing just because of the dreadful size of the thing. That doesn’t mean we can’t work to change other things, too. It’s just easier to push with people who already are willing to work with you than change the people who are vehemently opposed to what you want.
I completely agree, at least in regard to abortion, the other two constitute a grey area in my mind, but that’s a subject for another thread. Regardless, that ship sailed long ago, and those things are not about to be illegal in America anytime soon. As I said, our attention is best focused on other areas of gross injustice in this country, areas where we can actually make significant change.
Parental choice is great. I have no problem with private options and homeschooling. However not at the expense of a tuition-free public system of both primary and higher education. Education is an economic necessity, and given the high tuition rates and the unbearable financial strain those put on poor and working people, it should be publicly funded. Let the well-off send their kids to private universities, but let us working people have the option of attending a tuition-free community college.
Who has a problem with that? Certainly not me. I believe in private business and free enterprise. Yet not an unregulated free market. A social market economy is best for all economic actors. Publicly funded healthcare, roads/infrastructure, education, etc while encouraging and respecting private business in all other areas.
No one is advocating that here. We’re not communists. We just don’t think working people should get terribly sick and possibly get so sick that they put themselves in danger of death, all because another doctors visit would mean crippling debt. We don’t want to see desperate poor women choosing abortion because its cheaper than delivering their baby. We don’t want to see young men and women stuck in poverty because getting an education was too expensive. We believe in equal opportunity, and for that to exist we need universal single-payer healthcare and education.
I’m sure you must not be aware of these numbers, so I’ll post them for you.
I’m a professor of theology at a Catholic college, and this semester I’m teaching Moral Theology in addition to my usual Christology class. From the Catechism:
I watched a series of documentaries on Netflix - thebusinessofbeingborn.com/ - and it opened my eyes as to why the expense of having a baby is so high. It really resonated with me.To the issue at hand, I’d like to know why childbirth - choosing life - is so blooming expensive compared to abortion. It’s oh-so-easy to harp on all the millions Planned Parenthood makes killing babies. What about how expensive it is to give birth at a hospital? Why don’t any Republicans take steps to make childbirth more affordable?
How dare you. You’re really gonna accuse me of not valuing the life of the unborn, just because I won’t vote for the social-darwinists of the GOP? Where did I EVER say that abortion was not an evil? Don’t put words in my mouth or accuse me of not caring about that issue. What an asinine comment.
I, too, am against abortion 100%, however I, too, believe we cannot choose a president based on this one issue alone. If the financial situation of many people becomes even worse, more people are going to opt for abortion.
Why would you want to vote for someone who wants to make the Federal government even bigger? Good grief, our Constitution is all about a limited Federal entity and allowing the people to have the maximum amount of liberty possible. Why do you want other people making decisions for you that you should be making for yourself?
No, because you said this:
How is it different besides you saying so? There are places like food banks, where you can get food and shelters provide a place to stay or a change of cloths all without “paying a dime”. Even if healthcare was “free”, you would still be paying for it through much higher taxes.
Yes, and that’s absolutely fine. At least that way poor people could actually have healthcare. When something extraordinarily expensive is paid for out of pocket, only the well-off can afford it. When the same thing is paid for through taxation, all have access to it regardless of socio-economic status. With something as important as healthcare, all should have access to it. I’m completely fine with higher taxes for such things.
This is a terrible excuse for having an abortion.
