2006-06-11 16:14:31 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The pope says no.
2006-06-11 16:18:02 · answer #1 · answered by crystal89431 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Catholics cannot support abortion and still receive communion. It is entirely hypocritical and goes against so much of what the church stands for. Being pro-life is such a large part of the Catholic church that if you are for abortion, it doesn't make any sense to be a catholic because of how much of the religion you would be disagreeing with.
2006-06-11 23:26:41 · answer #2 · answered by Kelsey 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, they cannot.
Mind you- this is coming from a Catholic who used to donate cash to the NARAL.
There is NO justifiable reason for abortion. NONE.
Health of the mother? Non-existant reason. Technology is such today that this simply doesn't come up. Mom needs Chemo? Is that a reason to kill her child and make her deal with that, too? There have been many women who have heroically chosen to continue cancer treatments- and had perfectly normal babies. Sometimes the child dies- but then nature has taken it's course, the mother has allowed someone to murder her child. Read about GIANNA MOLLA...she was AMAZING!
Rape/ incest? Since when do we inflict the DEATH PENALTY on the CHILD of a criminal????? Our youth minister was brutally raped, and became pregnant. Because of her faith( she was protestant at the time), she couldn't abort. She fell in love with her son the instant she saw him....he is 18 now, amazingly talented, and totally in love with God.
Baby not convenient? Gee, should you maybe have thought about that BEFORE you had sex and didn't want a child??? That is why the gift of sex is meant for married couples and married couples only. Sex for recreation is a perversion of that beautiful gift. Sex without commitment is what has turned our country into what the Middle East hates.
No reason for abortion. None. The abortion mentality since Roe V Wade passed has only enslaved women to being sex objects for men.....
2006-06-14 18:00:56 · answer #3 · answered by Mommy_to_seven 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a difficult issue. I have been told by my youth minister that if I supported abortion, I could not be Catholic. However, i do not believe that the world is all that black and white, nor is Catholicism. I support a women's right to abort her baby. I will pray that she doesn't. If she asks my oponion, I will discourage her, but ultimately, it is her right.
I believe i am a Roman Catholic. I am baptised and confirmed. I take euchrist with my church every sunday. I pray the rosary, and I believe in transubstatation, tradition, miracles.
2006-06-11 23:36:42 · answer #4 · answered by magicwriter65 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but only when there is a high chance that the mother will die during (or shortly after) childbirth.
An abortion outside this condition is considered a mortal sin and the woman who aborts her child and the person/doctor performing the abortion are subject to immediate excommunication (it sucks, I know, but I don't make up the rules).
2006-06-17 00:46:52 · answer #5 · answered by the_alliance47 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, absolutely not. One cannot be Catholic and a supporter of abortion.
So called "pro-choice Catholics" are living in a fantasy world where secular humanistic moral relativism is their false god.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches:
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:
You shall not kill the embryo by abortion and shall not cause the newborn to perish.
God, the Lord of life, has entrusted to men the noble mission of safeguarding life, and men must carry it out in a manner worthy of themselves. Life must be protected with the utmost care from the moment of conception: abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes.
2272 Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life. "A person who procures a completed abortion incurs excommunication latae sententiae," "by the very commission of the offense," and subject to the conditions provided by Canon Law. The Church does not thereby intend to restrict the scope of mercy. Rather, she makes clear the gravity of the crime committed, the irreparable harm done to the innocent who is put to death, as well as to the parents and the whole of society.
2322 From its conception, the child has the right to life. Direct abortion, that is, abortion willed as an end or as a means, is a "criminal" practice (GS 27 § 3), gravely contrary to the moral law. The Church imposes the canonical penalty of excommunication for this crime against human life.
2274 Since it must be treated from conception as a person, the embryo must be defended in its integrity, cared for, and healed, as far as possible, like any other human being.
Prenatal diagnosis is morally licit, "if it respects the life and integrity of the embryo and the human fetus and is directed toward its safe guarding or healing as an individual. . . . It is gravely opposed to the moral law when this is done with the thought of possibly inducing an abortion, depending upon the results: a diagnosis must not be the equivalent of a death sentence."
2006-06-15 08:44:12 · answer #6 · answered by Daver 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
The Catholic Church is pro-life in the widest sense. This is often called a "Consistent Ethic of Life."
This pro-life stance stresses the highest regard for dignity of human life including that of:
- All people in objecting to unjust war and nuclear arms.
- The unborn in objecting to to abortion, in fitro fertilization, frozen embryos, embrionic stem cell research, and cloning
- The elderly, sick and dying in objection to assisted suicide and euthanazia
- Prisoners in objecting to the death penalty
- The poor and minorities in supporting social justice issues.
With love in Christ.
2006-06-13 00:27:51 · answer #7 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anyone who professes Christ as their savior cannot support abortion. If you have Christ in you, "a kingdom divided against itself cannot stand". This website is catholic, and their thoughts on the subject are crystal clear...http://www.rockforlife.org/html/index.html
2006-06-11 23:54:51 · answer #8 · answered by rebel against the rebels 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
im an atheist and i dont support late term abortion
2006-06-11 23:17:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes they abort windows operations and terminate currently running applications.
2006-06-11 23:17:12 · answer #10 · answered by Skeptic Instinct 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They CAN. I mean, you cant stop them. But to follow the religion like a "good Cathiloc" then no, they shouldn't. The Church says its wrong.
2006-06-11 23:26:46 · answer #11 · answered by sweetie_baby 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋