{"id":39752,"date":"2013-08-22T13:35:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T17:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=39752"},"modified":"2013-08-22T01:22:32","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T05:22:32","slug":"im-catholic-but-thats-not-why-im-pro-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/im-catholic-but-thats-not-why-im-pro-life\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Catholic &#8212; but that&#8217;s not why I&#8217;m pro-life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>If you were to listen exclusively to pro-aborts, you would get the idea that pro-lifers are a bunch of religious extremist nutjobs, out to force their beliefs on the rest of the country because, JESUS! For many people in the pro-life movement, this has somewhat of a basis in reality, though the vast majority are just your regular, run-of-the-mill Christians looking to save lives. Many pro-lifers feel that their faith and their calling to save the unborn go hand-in-hand. I&#8217;m just not one of them.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I despise hearing abortion advocates screech about the elusive separation of church and state (which doesn&#8217;t actually exist), using it as an argument for why abortion should be legal. And that&#8217;s because my faith has absolutely nothing to do with my pro-life views.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-20277\" style=\"margin-left: 16px; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 6px;\" alt=\"baby model\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/baby-model.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"144\" \/>The fact that I&#8217;m Catholic may make this surprising. Catholicism and pro-life are practically synonymous. And because I&#8217;m Catholic, I always felt <em>personally<\/em> pro-life. But I struggled with using my faith as the sole reason to fight for the pro-life movement. I didn&#8217;t know if it was right to force something that I felt onto other people, if the only reason I felt that way was because of my religious beliefs. I needed more.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, the science is on the pro-life side. Just having a basic understanding of embryology should be enough for anyone to understand that, at the moment of conception, there is a completely separate life from the mother. The baby, even when it is a tiny zygote, already has their own DNA strand. It has already been decided whether the baby is a boy or a girl, what color hair they will have, everything. The baby may reside inside the mother&#8217;s body, but he or she is in no way just a part of the mother. Learning more about the science behind pregnancy and embryology was the extra push I needed to take me from personally pro-life, to willing to fight to abolish abortion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were to listen exclusively to pro-aborts, you would get the idea that pro-lifers are a bunch of religious extremist nutjobs, out to force their beliefs on the rest of the country because, JESUS! 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