2007-07-23 13:39:00 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
While this topic is truly an inter-faith concern I placed it under Catholicism because our Church is against it.
2007-07-23 14:14:04 · update #1
It's wrong because it's taking another human life (in a word, murder). If you wouldn't just come up to me and chop me up, stab me in the head with a knitting needle, or suck me up in a vacuum, there's no reason you should do it to a baby, either. (And if you would do those things, you have more issues than I can even describe.) You also never know what the baby would have grown up to be; when you have an abortion, nobody can say if you're killing the baby who would have become a great artist, scientist, soldier, writer, or political leader. For those fools who say the baby isn't alive until it's born, remember you thought that next time you see a pregnant woman get excited when her baby kicks inside her. Considering all this, I can't imagine that anyone would deny that abortion is a terrible sin. Remember, everyone who ever lived was able to do so because their mom didn't murder them in the womb.
2007-07-23 13:52:01 · answer #1 · answered by Lycanthrope777 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
In the first place, most aborted fetuses ARE NOT even buried in graves, they are burned in the hospital furnace with other leftover body parts. In the second place, why would I have to be a catholic to answer this question, as any reasonable person who has the least amount of the Holy Ghost or the light of Christ would know that Abortion is wrong. But what is a girl going to do when her priest tells her that birth control is a sin?
2007-07-23 13:48:57 · answer #2 · answered by Gma Joan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Catholics believe that from the moment of conception until natural death, each human being is endowed by God with dignity and rights.
You shall not kill. (Ex 20:13; cf. Deut 5:17)
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you. (Jer 1:5; cf. Job 10:8-12; Ps 22:10-11)
My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately wrought in the depths of the earth. (Ps 139:15)
Early Church writings: You shall not kill the embryo by abortion and shall not cause the newborn to perish. (Didache 2, 2: SCh 248, 148; cf. Ep. Barnabae 19, 5: PG 2, 777; Ad Diognetum 5, 6: PG 2, 1173; Tertullian, Apol. 9: PL 1, 319-320)
For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, sections 2270 and following: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt3sect2chpt2art5.htm#2270
With love in Christ.
2007-07-23 15:56:40 · answer #3 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Any direct attempt on an innocent life as a means to an end - even to the end of saving another life - is unlawful. Innocent human life, in whatsoever condition it is found, is withdrawn, from the very first moment of its existence, from any direct deliberate attack. This is a fundamental right of the human person, which is of universal value in the Christian conception of life; hence as valid for the life still hidden within the womb of the mother, as for the life already born and developing independently of her; as much opposed to direct abortion as to the direct killing of the child before, during or after its birth. Whatever foundation there may be for the distinction between these various phases of the development of life born or still unborn, in profane and ecclesiastical law and in certain civil and penal consequences, all these cases involve a grave and unlawful attack upon the inviolability of human life."
"Every human being, even a child in the mother's womb has a right to life directly from God and not from the parents or from any society or authority. Hence there is no man, no human authority, no science, no medical, eugenic, social, economic or moral 'indication' that can offer or produce a valid juridical title to a direct deliberate disposal of an innocent human life; that is to say, a disposal that aims at its destruction whether as an end or as a means to another end, which is, perhaps, in no way unlawful in itself."
THE DIDACHE APOSTOLORUM (90 A.D.):
"You shall not kill by abortion the fruit of the womb and you shall not murder the infant already born." (4)
Catechism
The fifth commandment forbids direct and intentional killing as gravely sinful. The murderer and those who co-operate voluntarily in murder commit a sin that cries out to heaven for vengeance. (68)
Infanticide, (69) fratricide, parricide and the murder of a spouse are especially grave crimes by reason of the natural bonds which they break. Concern for eugenics or public health cannot justify any murder, even if commanded by public authority.
2007-07-23 13:52:48 · answer #4 · answered by tebone0315 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cause the Catholic Church believes that the baby is alive at conception not just when it looks like one. If you kill the cells that end up being the baby, you're committing murder because otherwise it would have lived.
2007-07-23 13:43:36 · answer #5 · answered by Ten Commandments 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Abortion is wrong because it contradicts in what is inscribed in the Catholic bible, "Go out and multiply....
it is an interfaith series, Catholicism, but admit it, there are many catholics here in the world...
Abortion kills human to be...
2007-07-23 14:01:32 · answer #6 · answered by marie 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Catholic Faith believes a fetus is a human being from the moment of conception.....and to remove the child from the mother's womb before it is born is murder.
2007-07-23 13:42:46 · answer #7 · answered by daljack -a girl 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
why is abortion gravely wrong? well because its murder. See when a women is pregnant there is a life inside of her and to kill that life is murder. the 6th commandment is thou shalt not kill, and to kill a unborn baby is murder because it is a life, the baby may not be born but it is alive.
2007-07-23 13:46:33 · answer #8 · answered by renae2007_1986 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Murder is wrong in a lot of religions, even most atheists would say so.
2007-07-23 13:41:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
It seems that Catholics forgot to get their advice from the bible on this one
2007-07-23 13:41:56 · answer #10 · answered by . 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋