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- I cannot stay silent. While many will be irritated to hear a pope return to the topic, I cannot stay silent over 30 to 40 million unborn lives cast aside every year through abortion.
- Talk to the scientists. It should be a scientific question in which it is decided whether or not there is life. The issue of abortion is not primarily a religious issue, but rather a human one – an issue of human ethics that comes before any particular religious creed.
- Not a religious issue. Is it fair to eliminate a human life in order to solve a problem? The answer to which is: no. Second question: Is it fair to pay a sniper to solve a problem?
- Sing what you didn’t sing. [T]he problem is not in giving forgiveness, the problem is in accompanying a woman who has come to the realization she has had an abortion. …
Abortion is without a doubt one of the greatest moral evils within modernity. As the "Advocate of Christian Memory," a pope must take up the mantle of defending the culture of life - a defense the Early Church held against the pagans of Rome.
Sep 10, 2015 · Instead of treating women as adults who make their own decisions, the pope condescends to “all the women who have resorted to abortion,” saying he is “well aware of the pressure that has led...
Sep 2, 2015 · The willingness of Pope Francis to understand abortion as a societal failure can help end the ancient lie that abortion is simply the result of the personal failure of an individual woman....
Aug 3, 2009 · Pope John Paul II's view. Pope John Paul II took a very strong line on abortion, describing it as murder. During a trip to Poland in August 2002 he reiterated his opposition to abortion:
Jul 16, 2022 · Still, it was not until 1869 that Pope Pius IX affirmed this doctrine, proclaiming abortion at any point in pregnancy to be a sin punishable by excommunication.
Mar 23, 2019 · Today, the moral argument in the abortion debate—both religious and secular—is often perceived to be the province of those who oppose abortion. Opponents focus on fetuses and morality (“killing”), supporters focus on women and law (“choice”), and this disjuncture leads us to talk past one another.
