The Elephant in the Room
I wouldn’t wish having to watch the presidential or vice-presidential debates on anybody, but if you did watch them, you may have noticed a serious absence when it came to the discussion of abortion. The American legal situation on abortion is in great flux. In the vice-presidential debate, you had a Catholic convert and a lapsed Catholic debating abortion, but they never spoke about what was really the elephant in the room which is the preborn child who is being killed by abortion. This is often the case because we don’t like to talk about the difficult questions.
Abortion is really a clash of absolutes - you have the health, concerns, or anxiety of the mother and the life of the preborn child. People don’t like to consider the harsh reality that every abortion kills a human life. Pope Francis, in a recent press conference, made the point yet again that abortion is always the taking of a human life.
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A Person is Still a Person Regardless of Size
Isn’t amazing how often a person will say, “The issue is settled” when all they really mean is that they don’t want to talk or debate about it anymore? This is the case with the recent debate over in vitro fertilization in the United States. A few months ago, the Alabama State Supreme Court ruled that because embryos were human beings then in vitro fertilization as it is currently practiced could not be allowed in the state. This caused an expected brouhaha with various politicians and social influencers decrying the backwardness of Alabama and all those “pro-life crazies”. It has become one more lightning rod for the pro-abortion political left.
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The Declaration “Dignitas Infinita” On Human Dignity
One of the greatest voices for the upholding of the dignity of human life was St. John Paul II and it is only fitting that the Declaration on Human Dignity, Dignitas Infinita (DI), was issued from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith on April 2, 2024, the nineteenth anniversary of this great saint’s death. This is very much a “package” document that is meant to cover a very wide number of life and sexual issues.
It has been rather typical of the documents issued in this papacy in that it seeks to finds a common thread for both believers and non-believers alike as regarding the elusive but essential nature of human dignity and the respect due it and rights surrounding it.
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