What are the catholic beliefs on abortion????????

Question

What are the catholic beliefs on abortion????????

Answer 1

They're pretty solid on murder being a sin. . .

Answer 2

The Catholic Church is staunchly anti-abortion. However, Catholics make up a large percentage of women getting abortions every year. Therefore, it appears that the views of the Church and the views of the practicioners may differ.

Answer 3

That life is sacred from the moment it is conceived. Abortion is an abominable pagan practice(this is Christian Church teaching since the Apostles).  

Answer 4

They're against abortion.

Answer 5

Most appose brutal murder of babies.

Answer 6

Generally, they oppose the killing of innocent children.  

Answer 7

Exodus 21:22-25

22 “When men strive together and hit a pregnant woman, so that her child is born premature, but there is no harm, the one who hit her shall surely be fined, as the woman's husband shall impose on him, and he shall pay as the judges determine. 23 But if there is harm, then you shall pay life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

If you kill an unborn baby, eye for an eye.

Answer 8

Very simple.  The Church considers abortion to be the murder of an unborn person.  It's therefore a "mortal sin", and the consequences are damnation unless the sin is repented of before the offender's death.  The Church values life, which includes the lives of the unborn, the elderly, and the sick and handicapped.  It forbids any effort to terminate the life of anyone.  No exceptions.

Answer 9

What do you think?

WE HATE IT. IT IS EVIL.

Answer 10

The Catholic church is and always will be absolutely opposed to abortion under every circumstance.  It is never right to murder an innocent baby no matter what the reasons may be.  Now, if a woman was to have a baby and in the process either the woman or the baby would live, but not both and it was your decision to decide who to save, it is alright to choose to save the mother and not the baby so long as the act itself does not lead to the death of the baby, but the Church decrees that it is more honorable and more noble to sacrifice one's life for their child.  I myself would never allow any of my children to die for my sake.  I would rather be the one to be sacrificed so that they may have a chance to live.  

Some make an argument that abortion is ok if the mother's life is in danger on account of it.  Ron Paul, who is running for president and is a retired OBGYN, said that of the 4000 babies he has delivered and the decades of experience in his profession he has never ever seen an abortion as the necessary means to save the life of the mother.  In fact, abortions themselves can lead to the mother's death, and have done in many cases.  They are very dangerous procedures.  Obviously very evil procedures.

Answer 11

I personally don't want to know.  there are a lot of things in the Catholic "doctrines" that I view as... "strange".

Answer 12

The catholic view is that all life is scared, and life starts at the moment of conception (when the sperm hits the egg), so they believe that abortion is wrong.

Answer 13

It's murder.

Answer 14

2271 Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law:

You shall not kill the embryo by abortion and shall not cause the newborn to perish.

2272 Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life. "A person who procures a completed abortion incurs excommunication latae sententiae," "by the very commission of the offense," and subject to the conditions provided by Canon Law. The Church does not thereby intend to restrict the scope of mercy. Rather, she makes clear the gravity of the crime committed, the irreparable harm done to the innocent who is put to death, as well as to the parents and the whole of society.

God, the Lord of life, has entrusted to men the noble mission of safeguarding life, and men must carry it out in a manner worthy of themselves. Life must be protected with the utmost care from the moment of conception: abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes.

2273 The inalienable right to life of every innocent human individual is a constitutive element of a civil society and its legislation:

"The inalienable rights of the person must be recognized and respected by civil society and the political authority. These human rights depend neither on single individuals nor on parents; nor do they represent a concession made by society and the state; they belong to human nature and are inherent in the person by virtue of the creative act from which the person took his origin. Among such fundamental rights one should mention in this regard every human being's right to life and physical integrity from the moment of conception until death."80

"The moment a positive law deprives a category of human beings of the protection which civil legislation ought to accord them, the state is denying the equality of all before the law. When the state does not place its power at the service of the rights of each citizen, and in particular of the more vulnerable, the very foundations of a state based on law are undermined. . . . As a consequence of the respect and protection which must be ensured for the unborn child from the moment of conception, the law must provide appropriate penal sanctions for every deliberate violation of the child's rights."81

2274 Since it must be treated from conception as a person, the embryo must be defended in its integrity, cared for, and healed, as far as possible, like any other human being.

Prenatal diagnosis is morally licit, "if it respects the life and integrity of the embryo and the human fetus and is directed toward its safe guarding or healing as an individual. . . . It is gravely opposed to the moral law when this is done with the thought of possibly inducing an abortion, depending upon the results: a diagnosis must not be the equivalent of a death sentence."82

2275 "One must hold as licit procedures carried out on the human embryo which respect the life and integrity of the embryo and do not involve disproportionate risks for it, but are directed toward its healing the improvement of its condition of health, or its individual survival."83

"It is immoral to produce human embryos intended for exploitation as disposable biological material."84

"Certain attempts to influence chromosomic or genetic inheritance are not therapeutic but are aimed at producing human beings selected according to s*x or other predetermined qualities. Such manipulations are contrary to the personal dignity of the human being and his integrity and identity"85 which are unique and unrepeatable.

Answer 15

The Catholic Church has consistently taught that abortion -- at any stage of development -- is evil.

Circa 100 to 150 CE: The Didache (also known as "The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles"), was a document written for the guidance of Christians. It forbade all abortions.

Prior to 380 CE: Many Christian leaders issued unqualified condemnations of abortion. So did two church synods in the early 4th century:

Canon law was revised in 1917 and 1983 to refer simply to "the fetus."  The church penalty for abortions at any stage of pregnancy was, and remains, excommunication.

Answer 16

A fetus is a child. An abortion kills a child. They are opposed to killing children.

Answer 17

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http://christianforums.com/forumdisplay....

Answer 18

Catholicism is against abortion!!! Period!!!

Answer 19

"Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law." (Catechism of the Catholic Church 2271)

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__...