To begin our conversation on LIFE issues, here are statements on Human Life from the Catholic Catechism: Therefore, in this first piece I will offer my best expression of the Roman Catholic beliefs regarding the life in utero.
In the hope of maintaining focus, I invite us to take one premise at a time. Some traditions limit the designation of “the right to choose” as “a moral choice” to specific stages in pregnancy.
While the former groups insist a woman’s “right to choose” begins and ends with her decision to engage in sexual intercourse along with her choices regarding family planning and contraception, the latter groups extend each woman’s rights of self-determination to any point including her pregnancy be it wanted or unwanted. Protestants, and other faiths often, but not always, start with each woman’s right to bodily integrity. Generally, Catholic, Orthodox, Evangelical, and Pentecostal Christians start with life in the womb. Part of the issue’s complexity begins is rooted in the different foundational premises people have as they enter the abortion debate. The Catholic Church upholds the belief that human life begins at conception and therefore society must protect it. DiLuzio, CSP (A Catholic priest––not a formal Catholic Theologian, Ethicist, or Official Spokesman)
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