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\u201cIt isn\u2019t possible to be prolife and simultaneously forget the cries of the poor.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

We can no longer afford to be merely anti-abortion. We have to be fully prolife.<\/p>\n

The Preferential Option for the Poor<\/a> and the Preferential Option for Life<\/a> are not opposites but inextricably bound up with one another. The term for those who pit them against one another and demand that we choose one or the other is \u201cheretic\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"