When people say not to legalize abortion what does legalize mean? Does it mean, deregulate and not necessarily protect or not protect or does it mean to protect it and/or fund it?
They mean to make it against the law (state, country, nation) to have or procure an abortion. Presently, abortion is “legal” in the USA; that means one can procure an abortion without legal penalty. “Legalization”, as a word, pertains to the law of the state, country or nation…but NOT to the law of God.
Make it into law.The law says nothing in regards to how it is funded at least in this case.Of course they can mandate it to be funded but that would be an added requirement.
Legalized abortion means that the law allows abortion. There was such a Supreme Court decision to allow abortion in 1973 in the US. Since 1973 there have been over 50 million killings of unborn babies. ehd.org/movies.php?mov_id=44
Legalization has nothing to do with funding or regulations.
CCC " 2242 The citizen is obliged in conscience not to follow the directives of civil authorities when they are contrary to the demands of the moral order, to the fundamental rights of persons or the teachings of the Gospel.
Refusing obedience to civil authorities, when their demands are contrary to those of an upright conscience, finds its justification in the distinction between serving God and serving the political community.
“Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” “We must obey God rather than men”:
When citizens are under the oppression of a public authority which oversteps its competence, they should still not refuse to give or to do what is objectively demanded of them by the common good;
but it is legitimate for them to defend their own rights and those of their fellow citizens against the abuse of this authority within the limits of the natural law and the Law of the Gospel. **" **
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