Fr. Barron comments on Abortion and Health Care

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[chase82]

Abortion is genocide. It's murdering a baby. Do you have a "baby" shower or a fetus" shower.

[Infiltratr]

Abortion is murder in just the same way the the death penalty is murder, or a soldier invading another country and shooting someone is murder, or a cop killing someone becasue they didn't stop when they commanded to is murder.

Murder is murder. Period.As Catholics we cannot kill. We cannot support murderers. Wether they are state sanctioned or not makes no difference. We follow God first and the state second where it does not contravine God's laws.

[cashernandes1]

@Infiltratr While I agree with you that we cannot murder, I wouldn't say death penalty is murder. Death penalty is something brought upon someone by himself alone. If it's anyone's fault, it's solely the criminal's. And if the war is just, it's not morally equivalent to killing an innocent baby, for example.

[brendos444]

@brendos444 yet we don't see this.. Again, Protestant ideology in America seems to embrace the kind of individual freedom to choose that philosophers like Ayn Rand and FA Hayek promote. Freedom to not take care of the poor if you don't want, freedom to make heaps of money, freedom to do anything you want. And yet, when it comes to abortion they somehow make an exception... I think, ironically, pro-choice is umbilically linked to the "freedom" ideology we see in puritanical evangelical America.

[brendos444]

All well and good father and I agree but until we start treating human life outside the womb with the dignity, then are we really surprised about the problem of abortion. It seems to me that much of american Christianity, mostly Protestant I would say, is obsessed with this issue to the exclusion of almost all others, apart from homosexuality perhaps. Meanwhile, many who seek abortions come from poor communities who could do with the same kind of advocacy u r showing to the unborn...

[seanbsworldwide]

God bless you Father and thank you. These things needed to be said. This was thorough, honest, and, as always, very eloquently presented. My question is this: what would you propose as a healthy, moral alternative to an abortion?

Thanks again!

[badpanda84]

@Infiltratr well how can the inqustions and crusades be condone by the catholic church ( which involved killing in Gods name)

[Infiltratr]

@badpanda84 Was murdering and killing OK then? I must have missed that memo....

[Infiltratr]

@badpanda84 Do you really need me to explain it to you???????

[badpanda84]

@Infiltratr "We follow God first and the state second where it does not contravine God's laws"

SO explain the crusades and the inqusition -- why was murdering and killing people OK then.

[badpanda84]

@Infiltratr  "Murder is murder. Period.As Catholics we cannot kill. We cannot support murderers."

WTF -- catholic were responsable for kill and torturing poeple in the crusades and inqustion.. or are you saying catholic cannot kill unless the Pope says God told him it was Ok