WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — Thirty self-professed Catholic pro-abortion Democrats in the House of Representatives signed a letter expressing their full support of abortion to mark the one-year anniversary of the overturing of Roe v. Wade with the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision.
Led by Connecticut Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the pro-abortion lawmakers had the gall to invoke their alleged “Catholic faith” — which condemns abortion as murder of the most innocent persons in society — in justification of a stance that stands in contradiction with Catholic moral teaching on the inviolable sanctity of life in the womb. Signatories included Nancy Pelosi, whom Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco has barred from receiving Communion for her long standing support of abortion.
“Our faith unfailingly promotes the common good, prioritizes the dignity of every human being, and highlights the need to provide a collective safety net to our most vulnerable,” the letter reads. “We are committed to making real the basic principles at the heart of Catholic social teaching: helping the poor, disadvantaged, and the oppressed; protecting the least among us; and ensuring that all Americans of every faith are given meaningful opportunities to share in the blessings of this great country.”
Then the pro-abortion advocates claimed they were following their consciences when it came to advocating for the murder of the unborn. Such advocacy they said was a refusal to impose religious beliefs on others. “As Catholics, we believe all individuals are free to make their own personal decisions about their bodies, families, and futures. The role of informed conscience is at the very core of our faith … Our faith and our country’s Constitution demand that no person impose a single religious viewpoint into law or regulation.”
Then in an eminently sophistical claim and invoking the outspoken pro-life Pope John Paul II — whose encyclical Evangelium Vitae taught that it is definitive that abortion is intrinsically evil — the pro-abortion lawmakers stated, “The fundamental tenets of our Catholic faith — social justice, conscience, and religious freedom — compel us to defend a woman’s right to access abortion. We are committed to advocating for the respect and protection of those making the decision if and when to have children.”
Even the document of John Paul II that the signatories mention, Christifideles Laici, condemns abortion explicitly. “Who is able to count the number of babies unborn because they have been killed in their mothers’ wombs, children abandoned and abused by their own parents, children who grow without affection and education?” John Paul II wrote.
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DeLauro published her own statement lamenting the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the pro-life laws and measures that states have passed since Dobbs to protect the unborn.
In a tweet she boasted of her “faith” and pro-abortion advocacy, saying, “I am a Catholic—baptized, raised, and confirmed. The fundamental tenets of my faith compel me to defend a women’s right to access abortion. I am proudly part of the faithful large majority of US Catholics who support legal protections for abortion access.”
In Evangelium Vitae John Paul II strongly condemned abortion as a heinous act of murder, which the natural moral law, Scripture, Tradition, and the Church’s Magisterium have always universally forbidden. The Pontiff wrote:
The moral gravity of procured abortion is apparent in all its truth if we recognize that we are dealing with murder and, in particular, when we consider the specific elements involved. The one eliminated is a human being at the very beginning of life. No one more absolutely innocent could be imagined. In no way could this human being ever be considered an aggressor, much less an unjust aggressor! He or she is weak, defenceless, even to the point of lacking that minimal form of defence consisting in the poignant power of a newborn baby’s cries and tears. The unborn child is totally entrusted to the protection and care of the woman carrying him or her in the womb. And yet sometimes it is precisely the mother herself who makes the decision and asks for the child to be eliminated, and who then goes about having it done.
By the authority which Christ conferred upon Peter and his Successors, in communion with the Bishops-who on various occasions have condemned abortion and who in the aforementioned consultation, albeit dispersed throughout the world, have shown unanimous agreement concerning this doctrine-I declare that direct abortion, that is, abortion willed as an end or as a means, always constitutes a grave moral disorder, since it is the deliberate killing of an innocent human being. This doctrine is based upon the natural law and upon the written Word of God, is transmitted by the Church’s Tradition and taught by the ordinary and universal Magisterium.
No circumstance, no purpose, no law whatsoever can ever make licit an act which is intrinsically illicit, since it is contrary to the Law of God which is written in every human heart, knowable by reason itself, and proclaimed by the Church.
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