Explaining the Church's Position

by David Lins  |  07/10/2022  |  (Being) Catholic Matters

We sometimes forget that both politicians and media conglomerates hire professional writers to craft their messaging. These people are truly gifted at what they do and can quickly make arguments so persuasively that those who oppose their viewpoints are often quick to question themselves.

And a small army of these persuasion ninjas have been unleashed on the abortion issue. Stand strong in the facts, my friends. I am currently working on a series of videos that help explain the Church’s position to help remind you and share with others.

But here are a sampling of things the series will examine…

First things first: the Catholic Church loves your mom, sister, daughter, girlfriend, cousin, classmate, coworker, or friend. If they are in a desperate or tragic situation, we want to protect their souls and provide them with real-world care and options. We want to bring healing. We even want any perpetrators of violence to be brought to justice. And it is the same desire to protect and serve them that extends to their unborn daughters (and sons).

Furthermore, the argument that Catholics only care about unborn children, but do not care about the mothers or the children once they are born is ludicrous. It ignores Catholic hospitals, rehab centers, adoption agencies, food drives, women’s shelters, special collections and adoptive families (such as my own).

Anyone who believes in science can agree that a growing unborn child carries within it DNA. This genetic code identifies it as human and unique. This cannot be argued.

The next argument is often these lives could not survive on their own. Therefore, they can be killed. (If they are alive, there can be no other word for it.) But a quick examination of this mindset reveals a fatal flaw: we know that infants, disabled, and elderly often cannot survive on their own.

Over two-thirds of our states have laws that punish the killing of the unborn if it is done without the mother’s consent. But surely a mother’s feelings don’t have the power to determine if a growing human child should be protected or not.