--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Amanda Marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's something I would really like to understand, but I truly don't: > How come people who would like to prevent abortion will not support methods > that would prevent unwanted pregnancies (and therefore, non- health/crisis > related abortion procedures) in the first place? >
There are two reasons for this: 1) The Catholic Church officially teaches that contraception is an objective moral evil for reasons completely unrelated to abortion. The Catholic Church has also of course consistently taught that one may not commit an objective moral evil to prevent another objective moral evil. 2) If you believe that life begins at conception, as I do, then many devices which you would call "contracpetion" I would call "abortion." There is, of course, nothing logically inconsistent about refusing to recommend very early abortions in order to prevent later abortions when you are opposed to all abortions in the first place. JDG _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
