Hi, Rence,
Actually, I do not think you have evaded the questions - the problem is that your responses are simply illogical for a Catholic. This creates confusion for the other posters and they conclude that you just have not answered. It really isn’t a question of ‘liking’ a response, the issue is just how well informed is the response.
Waving the flag for women to destroy the life within them is not a freedom in the sense of a liberation to do right and avoid evil - it is the call of Satan himself who thrives on death and destruction. It was Christ who rebuked His Apostles and said, “Suffer the little children to come to me” - and advocating for abortion as you are doing is a direct denial of Christ’s command.
I would like to know just what is your concept of ‘just’ when you call the laws allowing abortion at will at any time ‘just’. I have always been amazed that perfectly healthy children are murdered in their mothers womb - some even as they are forced to emerge and have their spinal cord cut, yet other nurses in the Neonatal ICU labor long and hard to save premature babies who have less gestational age, development and weight than the ones being butchered. Surely life stands on its on feet here - it is not a item of whim to pitch like a used newspaper. It has objective elements for all to see - and acknowledge.
Truly, the days of these late term abortions are drawing fast to an end. Drs like Kermit Gosnell are facing multiple murder counts - and at least one of his pregnant patients died from his direction of an unlicensed person to give medications. Something like 20 states are moving to stop abortions after 20 weeks because the fetus can be seen to be experiencing pain on ultrasound - and this is truly cruel and most unusual form of death - to be dismembered alive. And, this is what you think you have a ‘right’ to?
As Catholics we believe that we are here for only a short period of time and then we will be individually judged for what we have done and what we have failed to do. Just look around yourself and see that the focus is on life - and not on death. Yes, there are hard and sad cases - but, killing new life is not solving the problem - only adding a new one.
Do you remember this pledge?
**I solemnly pledge myself before God and in the presence of this assembly, to pass my life in purity and to practice my profession faithfully. I will abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous, and will not take or knowingly administer any harmful drug. I will do all in my power to maintain and elevate the standard of my profession, and will hold in confidence all personal matters committed to my keeping and all family affairs coming to my knowledge in the practice of my calling. With loyalty will I endeavor to aid the physician, in his work, and devote myself to the welfare of those committed to my care. **
It is a good set of statements to have in front of you.
God bless
I have not evaded it over and over. I have answered it over and over. You just don’t like how I am answering. I have said that if one doesn’t agree with a law, they should try to get it changed by lobbying. If there is an instance where something is legal but you consider it immoral, then you should lobby to have it changed. If there is an instance where something is illegal and you don’t find it’s not immoral, lobby to have it changed. But you still have to obey the law at the time it is a law.
The problem you’re having with me is that I am grateful for the laws that protect women’s rights, and I agree with them. Therefore, I have no compulsion to fight those laws that make something legal, that others find immoral because I agree that the laws are just as well as moral.
If asked a question about the topic of this thread, which is pro-choice Catholics, I will respond.
She has a right not to have motherhood forced on her should her mind change, eh?
