A Catholic Nun on What It Really Means to Be Pro-Life
A moral world is one whose societies realize that none of us can manage alone without the help of those who believe that every life is as important as their own.
By Sister Joan Chittister | May 19, 2017
It’s so easy to be a one-issue voter. It’s also so superficial to be a one-issue anything. It’s a narrow, delimiting approach to the very essence of life. As in, I go to church every Sunday but I don’t believe in welfare. I’m not going to support slackers. If people worked as hard as I do, they could take care of themselves, too. Or even worse, “there’s no such thing as equal.”
And there may be some truth in that. But it is also true that all humans must be enabled to live as human beings — with dignity and decency — or the rest of us are no longer fully human beings ourselves, whether we realize it or not.
As we prepare to cut one-third of the social services of this country, as we intend to balance the US budget on the backs of women and children for the sake of the affluent and the privileged and ignore the effect budget cuts will make on the lives around us, we have no right to call ourselves pro-life.
The question of the ages remains loud and clear in our time: Exactly what is a moral person? Philosophers, theologians, jurists and psychologists everywhere have worked on the problem. And in every age, the answer to that question remains the same and at the same time forever changes. Or mutates, as it has now.
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