Why do many Catholics vote for pro-choice candidates/parties?

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I would not label myself a “pro-choicer”. I believe I’m as pro-life as the next person yet I have voted for pro-choice candidates. Most of it has to do with other policies that affect life. Abortion rates went down under the last Democratic presidents. They had policies in place to help women and the poor that helped in making decisions to have their babies. Those policies I support. If you want to eliminate abortions, you have to find ways to care for the mother, long term. When you take care of mom, you’re taking care of the baby. The idea of “you need to have that baby but we’re not responsible so we’re not going to help” saves no one. I’m not insinuating that is the position of anyone on this thread, but I have heard it. Find ways to take care of the mothers, abortions will go down. In the end I’m more concerned with that than having a philosophical debate.
 
HomeschoolDad said:
I realize that this could invite abuse of the system (some women getting pregnant on purpose because they know they’ll get a lot of free goodies, seeing this as their best life option), but I’d rather see that kind of abuse to the system, than see babies aborted.
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Not saying I support your idea, but if extended to struggling families in general, your idea could do wonders but does it have to be that bad, can you build the system, this is all hypothetical, towards helping families be self sufficient like matching and training thme for good family support jobs like this program? I like the initiative and it seems like a model program but it seems very expensive and it isn’t certain that there’s enough jobs for poor families.
 
It seems like poor people with children are able to get on Medicaid, get Section 8 housing, TANF, etc. Are these not available to poor women who are pregnant?
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The reality is “not exactly” Housing Vouchers has a waiting list that doesn’t meet demand, though if it was like SNAP and supported every eligible person, then maybe people’s situations wouldn’t be so precarious and people wouldn’t be so economically stressed, Child Care is in a similar situation, last I read somewhere only 1 in 5-6 eligible subsidized and Head Start serves half of eligible benefactress with E.H.S supporting less than 10% eligible. I think TANF has a good premise if well structured (like the Jeremiah Program) but it seems under resourced, doesn’t support all families in need, much less support them well considering they’re more likely to have deeply embedded issues and even as problematic incentives like not counting college as a work requirement which seems counter intuitive for the long term, I remember reading one story where when it first started, moms in college had to leave college or school taking up menial work to keep support which seemed to have doomed their prospects for advancement and even a tidbit where a family dealing with domestic violence was sanctioned despite their issue or because they had to deal with it and they ended up disappearing, TANF may have been a revolutionary solution to move up poor families but it seems like it was more about getting single moms to work than their advancement.
 
What would you do about poverty, specially for your community?
 
Regarding the school aspect, have to say that US welfare in general seems structured to keep people down rather than to help them up, which is why I have problems with it.

As to the other, where I used to live in a small town, it seemed like every girl who got pregnant was fully covered by welfare. Other poor people, like the elderly, not so much.
 
RCIAGraduate said:
What would you do about poverty, specially for your community?
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Oh, if only there were a simple solution to this complex problem!

I do what I can – educate and love and support and vote.

I do not have a solution. I’m a teacher, not a policy maker, sorry.
 
Alphard said:
Do you think directly supporting abortion and many others horrible sins with your vote is ok?
Then go ahead and vote Democrat, it’s your conscience and your soul,
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Absolutely agree.
Ask…will God be happy with me and allow me to share his heaven which is his purity and holiness if I vote for someone who publicly supports murder of the most innocent and vulnerable, the pre born child?
 
I live in a town with 3 school districts. One is the “inner city”, one is more country blue-collar families, the third is the “rich kids”. The highest abortion rate is at the richest school district.

Yes, poverty plays a part in abortion, poverty is not the sole reason.
 
What is the blue collar community like? Compared to low income, what is the situation for more blue collar or moderate income families and communities, are they in need of help as well or they manage specially if the living costs are manageable?
 
Blue collar workers are the traditional “middle class” of the US.
 
Thanks, I know it’s not the most relevant. Where I’m at in California it seems like the working class are part of the lower income, probably moderate income but due to living costs, seems like people struggle here, though that might be a more general issue if you have middle class struggling as well.
 
vote third party. don’t vote for a pro-genocide candidate, unless by doing so you will give rise to a pro-genocide candidate.
 
Would you link me to any current politician’s pro-genocide statements?
 
my point is this.
to think of abortion as anything different than one of the greatest and most pervasive genocides in humanities history is falling into the exact mindset the devil wants us to
 
Abortion as genocide is a popular trope, however, hyperbolic language does nothing to help the pro-life cause.

Genocide: the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. "a campaign of genocide"
 
“it is considered remote material cooperation”

You mean that part?

Peace and God Bless
Nicene
 
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