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Article: Prochoice politics and church law: what the Catholic anti-abortion lobby does not want you to know.
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- Conscience
- Article date:
- March 22, 2003
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POLITICIANS AND LAWMAKERS expect criticism and censure from their political opponents, it goes with the territory. Politicians and lawmakers who are prochoice expect further vitriol from anti-choice activists. Recently, the church hierarchy and ultra-conservative Catholic activists have raised the ante in a concerted campaign to censor and intimidate prochoice Catholic politicians.
But assertions by anti-choice activists that church law automatically excommunicates those who vote and advocate prochoice politics and everyone who has or performs abortions are false. And even though church law does say abortion is illegal, and also allows for bishops to take action ...