Bishop Robert W. Finn on Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) and its supporters

From The Catholic Key blog, a new column by Bishop Robert W. Finn of Kansas City:

When a candidate pledges to provide “comprehensive sex education” to school children and promises to promote – or to “sign immediately upon taking office” - the Freedom of Choice Act, Catholics and all people of good will have cause to question the sincerity of the candidate’s determination to reduce abortions, when these already existing limits have caused a decrease of more than 100,000 abortions each year. (cf. Michael New-Matthew Bowman, Combined Reductions in Abortions, with data supplied by NARAL Pro-Choice America)

As Archbishop Naumann and I stressed in our recent Pastoral Letter, “Our Moral Responsibility as Catholic Citizens,” we can never vote for a candidate because of his or permissive stand on abortion. At the same time, if we are inclined to vote for someone despite their pro-abortion stance, it seems we are morally obliged to establish a proportionate reason sufficient to justify the destruction of 45 million human persons through abortion. If we learn that our “candidate of choice” further pledges – through an instrument such as FOCA - to eliminate all existing limitations against abortion, it is that much more doubtful whether voting for him or her can ever be morally justified under any circumstance.

I urge you to learn more about the Freedom of Choice Act and its advocates so that you can make informed decisions in the voting booth.

Read the entire column.

Comments

[BillyHW]

At the same time, if we are inclined to vote for someone despite their pro-abortion stance, it seems we are morally obliged to establish a proportionate reason sufficient to justify the destruction of 45 million human persons through abortion.

So you're saying a 25 cent increase in the minimum wage isn't a proportionate reason?

But how do you quantify hope, change and audacitiness? And what is the adulation of the French worth, proportionately speaking?

[Mark Brumley]

Bishop Finn does it again.

[skyhawk]

" And what is the adulation of the French worth"

I'll keep praying for you BillyHW and I would ask you to do the same for me provided that this hatred for the French would prevent you to do so.

[BillyHW]

And I will pray that the Great Wizard of Oz has a sense of humour for you when you find him.