Noted Enemy of the Prolife Movment Bp. Paprocki

explains the Seamless Garment and why it is just Catholic common sense and not the diabolical plan to kill the prolife movement culture warriors claim it is.

What has happened is fairly simple:

1. It’s easier to focus on a simple idea (“Save the babies!”) than it is to focus on a more complex idea (“Protect all human life from conception to natural death”).

2. The GOP discovered that it could pit the unborn *against* the rest of the Church’s teaching and use the unborn as human shields for every culture of death priority they had that opposed the teaching of the Church.

3. Instead of listening to the Church’s whole teaching, millions of anti-abortion-but-not-prolife Catholics bought the idea that if you support “liberal” prolife ideas (end the death penalty, oppose torture, support a living wage, support state social safety nets for the poor, amnesty for immigrants, etc.) you were somehow ipso facto in favor of “watering down” the Church’s opposition to abortion.

Result: Donald Trump and the enslavement of the prolife movement to a political party that takes everything from them and gives them nothing back. They dance to his tune, not he to their and spend ever more time and energy defending everything he says and does, not the unborn.

Solution: Be more prolife, not less. Embrace the consistent life ethic of the Church instead of battling the Church. Then you have all the time in the world to fight abortion and don’t need to waste it on enslavement to the GOP.