Every elective abortion is the direct and intentional killing of an innocent human being.
Human life begins at fertilization. There is a modern scientific consensus on this. Learn more about prenatal development.
On January 22nd, 1973, the Supreme Court cases Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton legalized abortion through all nine months of pregnancy as long as any factor of the mother's health ("physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman's age") is impacted.
Since then, over 62 million innocent human beings have been killed in America alone.
200,000 humans are killed by abortion every day in our world, ending more lives than all other causes of death combined. This is not only the human rights injustice of our day; this is the greatest human rights injustice of all time.
According to the Guttmacher Institute, the former research arm of Planned Parenthood, over 2,300 humans are killed by abortion every day in America. One every 35 seconds. 1/5 babies are aborted. 2/3 of mothers aborting children identify as Christian, 1/4 as Catholic.
Preborn humans are different than born humans (smaller, less developed, in a different environment, more dependent), but toddlers and other born people differ in these ways as well. We would never discriminate against them because of these arbitrary reasons, therefore we shouldn't discriminate against preborn humans due to them. Abortion is ageism- age-based discrimination.
Abortion uses chemicals to starve and poison, as well as vacuums and forceps to dismember, decapitate, and disembowel, little children made in God's image and likeness. Abortion is murder.
See for yourself what abortion does to children.
(Includes real abortion victim photos.)
Mothers may face terrible circumstances- poverty, lack of support, teenage pregnancy, pregnancy after an assault, mental health issues, abusive relationships, addiction, etc.- but we would never allow a mother to kill her born children due to these circumstances, and we cannot allow her to kill preborn children either. Elective abortion is never medically necessary to save a mother's life.
For any mother facing a hard pregnancy, there is help. For any mother or father who has ended their child's life in abortion, the infinite mercy of Jesus Christ is offered to them. It is our utmost desire to meet them with love and assist them in finding forgiveness, healing, and hope.
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Catholics for Life opposes all forms of elective abortion, abortifacient birth control, embryonic stem cell research, cloning, and in-vitro fertilization (IVF) in all circumstances. Each of these acts violates humans' dignity and results in the deaths of the innocent. For these same reasons, we oppose attacks on human life at its final stages through euthanasia and assisted suicide. Catholics for Life also opposes all forms of contraception as these alter God's purpose for the sexual act and close couples off from co-creating children we must be open to. Human life must be respected from the very moment it begins to exist until natural death. Our Catholic Church must dedicate more fervor than ever before to loving the least of these (Mt. 25) most in need of our help- our brothers and sisters in the womb.
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