{"id":427,"date":"2008-09-04T17:40:52","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T17:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=427"},"modified":"2025-09-30T02:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:21:14","slug":"more-from-the-us-bishops-on-the-constant-teaching-of-the-church-on-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=427","title":{"rendered":"More from the U.S. Bishops on the constant teaching of the Church on abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Catholic League has another press release highlighting the Bishops further exposition stemming from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's remarks on Meet the Press.<\/p>\n

Catholic League: For Religious and Civil Rights<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

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Yesterday, the USCCB issued another statement<\/font><\/a>: it was a two-page reply that offered a historical account of the Catholic Church\u2019s teaching on abortion. The release makes it clear that the Church has always been unequivocally opposed to abortion. The new statement was written to \u201chelp end confusion caused by recent misrepresentations of Catholic Church teaching on abortion,\u201d a process that was \u201cprompted by misleading remarks by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

<\/span>Below is a direct link to the USCCB fact sheet, which can be printed out as a PDF. The document has 11 "bullets" summarizing the history of Church unchanging opposition to abortion. Here is the last one:<\/p>\n

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Given the scientific<\/em> fact that a human life begins at conception, the only moral norm needed to understand the Church\u2019s opposition to abortion is the principle that each and every human life has inherent dignity, and thus must be treated with the respect due to a human person<\/em>.  This is the foundation for the Church\u2019s social doctrine, including its teachings on war, the use of capital punishment, euthanasia, health care, poverty and immigration.  Conversely, to claim that some live human beings do not<\/em> deserve respect or should not<\/em> be treated as \u201cpersons\u201d (based on changeable factors such as age, condition, location, or lack of mental or physical abilities) is to deny the very idea of inherent<\/em> human rights.  Such a claim undermines respect for the lives of many vulnerable people before and after birth.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

USCCB – Pro-Life Activities – Respect for Unborn Human Life: The Church\u2019s Constant Teaching<\/strong><\/font><\/a>
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