{"id":248598,"date":"2021-07-04T13:02:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T18:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=248598"},"modified":"2021-07-02T16:50:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T21:50:45","slug":"catholic-author-pro-lifers-cult-fetus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/catholic-author-pro-lifers-cult-fetus\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic author insults pro-lifers as part of the ‘cult of the fetus’"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>

On June 27, 2021, The New York Times published an opinion piece<\/a> by author and historian Garry Wills, a Catholic who supports abortion. The essay, titled, “The Bishops Are Wrong About Biden \u2014 And Abortion,” attempts to delve into why abortion is not morally wrong, but falls overwhelmingly short of that goal.<\/p>\n

The Holocaust<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wills starts by accusing pro-life Catholics and evangelicals of believing abortion to be “an even greater crime” than the Nazi Holocaust, which he said was “the cold methodical murder of six million people just for being Jews.” But abortion is not a crime “greater” than the Holocaust. Rather, they are two crimes in a similar vein.<\/p>\n

As Pope Francis said<\/a> about abortion, “We do the same as the Nazis to maintain the purity of the race, but with white gloves on.”<\/p>\n

The Nazis killed Jews just for being Jewish, but the Nazis also killed the disabled for being disabled, gay<\/a> people for being gay, and others\u00a0\u2014 including Jehovah’s Witnesses, members of political opposition groups, Roma (gypsies), Poles and Slavic people.<\/p>\n

Likewise, abortion targets certain groups \u2014 the poor<\/a>, minorities<\/a>, religious groups<\/a>, and the disabled<\/a>. Any preborn child is at risk of being killed through abortion simply because of his or her size, age, and location. However, certain women are at an even greater risk of having their children killed by abortion because they are underprivileged, of a minority race, of a certain religion, or because of a prenatal diagnosis of disability or condition. Even up until birth in the United States, preborn children can be aborted if they have a health condition such as Down syndrome or cystic fibrosis, or if their mother is suffering from a mental health crisis or familial stress.<\/p>\n

Abortion, like the Holocaust, targets certain women for abortion, killing their children in discriminatory abortions solely based on who they are.<\/p>\n

The early church<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wills claims that none of the Gospels speaks about abortion as morally wrong. “No one told ‘Matthew’ or ‘Mark’ or ‘Luke’ or ‘John’ or Paul, or any other New Testament author, that he should condemn this sin of all sins. Nor did any author of the Old Testament raise this alarm, with the result that we do not have Moses or Jesus on record as opposing abortion. Nor did any of the major definitive creeds.”<\/p>\n

The Bible clearly and repeatedly<\/a> condemns the shedding of innocent blood, and the\u00a0Catechism of the Catholic Church<\/a> is clear: abortion is a moral wrong. “From the first moment of his existence,” the Catechism states, “a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person \u2014 among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life.”<\/p>\n