The Roman Catholic bishops of Colorado have answered a comment from pro-abortion Catholic Nancy Pelosi, who said that church tradition varied on when human life begins in the womb. The bishops point out that even when it was assumed under the primitive scientific knowledge of the day that “ensoulment” began with “quickening”–when the mother can first feel the baby move–the church has always taught that ABORTION IS STILL WRONG. When the baby is considered fully human has nothing to do with the immorality of abortion! Then these Roman Catholic bishops quoted a Lutheran:
In the blunter words of the great Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer:
“Destruction of the embryo in the mother’s womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed on this nascent life. To raise the question whether we are here concerned already with a human being or not is merely to confuse the issue. The simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his life. And that is nothing but murder.”
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