[Magdalen] pondering politics

[Scott Knitter]

The difference between abortion and, say, murder of a newborn child is
of course that the unborn child is still within its mother's body.
That's where the mother has the right to decide. But that doesn't
remove the moral dimension of the decision: I think a great many
abortions are a grave moral error (sin, even). But that's between the
woman and God. She still has the right to decide. It may be the
morally best course of action, or it may not be. Supporting the
woman's right to choose (and, if abortion is chosen, supporting legal
and safe ways to do it) doesn't mean one thinks abortion is morally
neutral.

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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA