VOTING with a CLEAR CONSCIENCE
Pro-life advocates, like Corpus Christi Right to Life, are often rebuked because we vote on the basic issue—Life. We are criticized for supporting or rejecting a candidate based on his or her commitment to defend innocent human life. This position, however, is defensible in many ways.
Single-issue voting has always been the means of our successful form of government: "No taxation without representation," "Abolition of slavery," "Women’s right to vote," "Civil Rights." Failure to support any of these single issues was reason enough not to support a candidate. This is also true with the LIFE issue, which is more valuable than all other rights and issues, without which other rights are meaningless.
Would you vote for a candidate who supports terrorism, or doesn’t clearly oppose terrorism? Wouldn’t you immediately consider that candidate disqualified for public service? Abortion is intentional violent killing of innocent humans and has resulted in far more human deaths than terrorism. Any candidate who supports legal abortion or doesn’t publicly oppose abortion disqualifies him/herself from public service, because he/she betrays divine law, natural law and the basic principles of our Founding Fathers and Constitution, which are inalienable "Right to Life," and "equal justice for all."
The Catholic Church has always insisted that "abortion and infanticide are Unspeakable crimes" Pope John Paul II (EV, 62). "With regard to any law permitting abortion, the Church teaches that it is "never licit to obey it, or to take part in a propaganda campaign in favor of such a law, or to vote for it" Pope John Paul II (EV, 73)
"Above all, the common outcry which is justly made on behalf of human rights—for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture—is false and illusory if the RIGHT TO LIFE, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition of all other personal rights, is not defended with maximum determination." Living the Gospel of Life, U.S. Bishops 1998.
Voting means empowering candidates and political parties for good or evil, and voters are accomplices to those they vote for. Candidates who do not publicly support the "Right to Life" of all human beings leave voters only their party’s position on the "Right to Life" as their personal position on the "Right to Life."
VOTE WITH A WELL--FORMED CONSCIENCE FOR CANDIDATES AND THE PARTY THAT WILL BEST PROTECT THE RIGHT TO LIFE OF ALL INNOCENT HUMANS.
Go to Corpuschristirightolife.com for political candidates and party positions.
This statement does not endorse or identify particular political candidates or parties or their positions on public policy issues and is only an issue and principle communication.