Congratulations to New Jersey on abolishing the death penalty (even if only symbolically), and congratulations to the UN on calling for a moratorium by a margin far too large to be put down to mere Western cultural imperialism. Far fewer countries have the death penalty than is generally supposed, anyway.
As the late Pope John Paul the Great tirelessly pointed out, the State has no more right to take a morally innocent human life (i.e., that of a wrongly convicted person) on the basis of mere judicial guilt than on the basis of, say, disability, or old age, or terminal illness, or still being in the womb.
So, when can we expect liberal America and the UN to act against those evils, too?
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Why is all abortion considered evil? It depends on the circumstance, doesn't it? Don't tell me you'd expect a 13 year old who was a victim of incest must be forced to give birth? And what about cases where the mother may die during delivery? Are you against those abortions too? I don't like abortions either (who does?), but lets have some common sense here.
ReplyDeleteI'm not against abortion if that is medically the only way to save the life of the mother, i.e., if the only alternative is the loss of both lives.
ReplyDeleteAbortion is worse than murder because it takes the life of an unbaptised infant and deprives Heaven of a soul.
ReplyDeleteBut that doesn't make murder any better. If it did, then you and I would not be so exercised by euthanasia.
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