It’s not complex. It’s simple – we cannot destroy innocent human life. It’s wrong – period. Human life begins at conception – period. Abortion is always immoral and gravely evil. It isn’t justifiable or acceptable – it is most definitely not a choice or a right. And it certainly is not healthcare.
We should at least be able to agree on that! Yet clearly we don’t, since many “Catholic” groups are doing their darnedest to make plausible-sounding arguments in favor of passing a new federal law that will mandate public funding of a grave evil. Suddenly instead of insisting that evil is evil and we cannot make deals with it, they’re “overlooking” evil in order to advance the “greater good.” That makes no sense spiritually or logically.
The whole tree is spoiled at the root. The fruit may look shiny and ripe and appetizing, but it is rotten. It simply can’t be otherwise. You cannot plant a rotten tree and yield good fruit.
~ Contributing writer Jennifer Hartline on the healthcare bill, at Catholic.org, January 2