The Myth of the Personally Pro-Life Catholic

by Matthew Archbold
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Excerpt:
The personally pro-life but publicly pro-choice argument, as far as I can make out, is there’s a tiny human being in the womb but don’t want to tell you that you can’t kill that tiny human being because you don’t believe it’s a human being. Or something.

They seem to love classifying abortion as a religious issue and insist they can’t force their religion on others because of the separation of church and state (a pretend benchmark). But of course that’s a bunch of hooey.

The fact is that life begins at conception. That’s science folks. The pro-aborts are the ones who want everyone to come up with their own timeline as far as this yet another pretend benchmark they call “personhood.” So to them, the right of individual personhood granting ability supersedes any right to life.

Here’s the thing - I don’t believe in “personally pro-life.” Not anymore. It just strains credulity. Either you believe it’s the taking of a human life or you don’t. There’s no middle ground. Either you believe in the right to life or you don’t. the rest