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Everyone knows that the Catholic Church opposes abortion, but the basis and implications of its teaching are surprisingly unfamiliar to many people and even many Catholics.(The Week)(Brief article)

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* Everyone knows that the Catholic Church opposes abortion, but the basis and implications of its teaching are surprisingly unfamiliar to many people and even many Catholics. They see that the Church considers abortion immoral but not that it also considers abortion gravely unjust--which is why pro-choice Catholics who claim to agree with their Church about abortion are simply mistaken. Whether or not pro-choicers (of any faith or none) themselves personally wish anyone to have an abortion, all of them by definition wish for unborn children to do without the legal protections against deliberate homicide that apply to everyone else. This widespread confusion provides the backdrop for the controversy over the University of Notre ...

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