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There are many issues that Catholics should be concerned about, but that does not mean that some issues are not more pressing than other ones.
White crosses in front of a church in Lansdale, PA on March 14, 2019 with a sign that says "Each Cross Represents 1,000,000 Surgical Abortions Since 1973." (photo: Rosemarie Mosteller / Shutterstock.com)
We are now less than 50 days from the Nov. 3 election, and as Catholics take this time to discern which issues should be our priority when we vote, one issue always seems to come to the fore: abortion.
That should hardly be surprising, as abortion — among all of the issues in our country — is unique: both in its prevalence and in its taking of completely innocent lives.
Still, some Catholics try to downplay the importance of this issue.
Those who support pro-abortion candidates often point to the importance of other issues to justify that support. Some may reference the “seamless garment” approach, which looks at a basket of issues that affect human life, and then argue that abortion is just one of those important issues.
For example, sometimes Catholics who wish to conveniently overlook Joe Biden’s position on abortion will point to the resumption of the federal death penalty by the Trump administration as a sort of equivalence.
There are many issues that Catholics should be concerned about, but that does not mean that some issues are not more pressing than other ones.
In the United States in 2020, moral equivalence when it comes to abortion just does not hold up.
Over the past decades, the Catholic Church has increasingly condemned the death penalty. In the United States, there were five federal convicts executed this year. In the same span, nearly 1 million children will be aborted.
Continued below.
Why Abortion Is Different From Other Issues
White crosses in front of a church in Lansdale, PA on March 14, 2019 with a sign that says "Each Cross Represents 1,000,000 Surgical Abortions Since 1973." (photo: Rosemarie Mosteller / Shutterstock.com)
We are now less than 50 days from the Nov. 3 election, and as Catholics take this time to discern which issues should be our priority when we vote, one issue always seems to come to the fore: abortion.
That should hardly be surprising, as abortion — among all of the issues in our country — is unique: both in its prevalence and in its taking of completely innocent lives.
Still, some Catholics try to downplay the importance of this issue.
Those who support pro-abortion candidates often point to the importance of other issues to justify that support. Some may reference the “seamless garment” approach, which looks at a basket of issues that affect human life, and then argue that abortion is just one of those important issues.
For example, sometimes Catholics who wish to conveniently overlook Joe Biden’s position on abortion will point to the resumption of the federal death penalty by the Trump administration as a sort of equivalence.
There are many issues that Catholics should be concerned about, but that does not mean that some issues are not more pressing than other ones.
In the United States in 2020, moral equivalence when it comes to abortion just does not hold up.
Over the past decades, the Catholic Church has increasingly condemned the death penalty. In the United States, there were five federal convicts executed this year. In the same span, nearly 1 million children will be aborted.
Continued below.
Why Abortion Is Different From Other Issues
