Sunday, August 24, 2008

Above her pay grade

Via The Corner at NRO, Catholic Archbishop of Denver Chaput:
Faithful Catholics want to live their faith fully - and one of the principles of Catholic social teaching is that we can never deliberately kill innocent human life. Abortion always, deliberately kills an innocent unborn child. Nobody can honestly claim to be a faithful Catholic and then support a false "right" to abortion; it’s just an elegant way of evading the brutality of what abortion actually does.
Also quoted at NRO, Democratic Speaker of the House Pelosi:
I would say that as an ardent practicing Catholic this is an issue that I have studied for a long time, and what I know is over the centuries the doctors of the Church have not been able to make that definition. And St. Augustine said three months. We don’t know. The point is it that it shouldn’t have an impact on a woman’s right to chose.
"Ardent practicing Catholic"? And hasn't knowledge about the status of the fetus improved somewhat since the time of Augustine?

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