From the numbers of emails flooding my in-box on my personal blog, I know I am not the only Catholic struggling this election season. One person sent me Bishop Herman’s statement about not voting for a pro-abortion politician.
He urged Catholics not to treat the unborn as the neglectful rich man treated Lazarus in the biblical parable.
“Judgment Day is on its way,” the bishop wrote in the St. Louis Review. “We cannot stop it. We don’t know when it will come, but just as surely as the sun rises daily, the Son of Man will come when we least expect.”
I wonder, is it only people killed by surgical/medicinal abortion? Or those killed by artificial contraception? Or those killed by in-vitro fertilization? Or those killed by embryonic stem cell research? The Bishops keep talking about abortion, but considering the numbers of American using hormonal contraceptions and the numbers of abortions caused by them, one would think the Bishops would not want us to vote for those politicians who want and protect birth control.
I will assume the Bishops DO mean what they say, and that ANY politician who supports ANY abortion or activity that causes abortion should not be supported.
Could someone please tell me which candidate falls under that category? I know of none. We know that NOT voting is an acceptable option. Does this mean, then, that Catholic must remove themselves from the electorate?
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