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Article: POLITICIANS 'RISK' EXCOMMUNICATION OVER ABORTION.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- June 15, 1990
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Byline: Staff and wire reports
Cardinal John O'Connor warned Catholic politicians Thursday that they risk excommunication if they continue to support abortion rights.
"Where Catholics are perceived not only as treating church teaching on abortion with contempt, but helping to multiply abortions by advocating legislation supporting abortion, or by making public funds available for abortion, bishops may decide that ... such Catholics must be warned that they are at risk of excommunication," O'Connor's statement said.
Writing in the archdiocesan newspaper Catholic New York, O'Connor said that if such actions persist, "bishops may consider ...