Why do so many Catholics get abortions?

Question

Personally, I feel life begins at conception. My opinion is based on an embryology class in college. I realized how fast fetal development happens!

I find it funny that Catholics claim to be pro-life, yet I know more Catholics who abort than non-religous people who just believe in "being a good person," or Prodestants. I question these Catholics, and they feel they can be forgiven for everything, so it is okay to keep recieving communion after having an abortion. If Catholic devorcees can't participate in communion, why should women who have abortions feel that they have the right? Do Catholics view contraception on the same level as abortion, so if you aren't on the calender method, you may as well abort? I knew one family who was on the calendar method because the church didn't allow the pill, then aborted after getting pregnant, then had the nerve to tell my mom it was wrong to leave an abusive marriage. Can you get away with anything in the Catholic church after confession?

Answer 1

Most Catholics don't practice the faith they believe. Catholicism is all about ritual. You go do the things you need to do and all is well.



Catholicism doesn't change a person. It doesn't save them. It doesn't give them the new birth that Jesus spoke of. It's just a series of do's and don'ts. And if you do the don'ts, one of the do's is confession and penance, which gets rid of the don't.



So the reason that Catholics get abortions is that they're just plain old unregenerated humans like the majority of non-Catholics. So they get pregnant and have abortions for the same reasons as their non-Catholic friends.

Answer 2

Well I'm sorry you've had dealings with such people. You seem to forget that people have free will, and that no matter what the Church teaching is, some will unfortunately think they are above it.



Whether they like it or not: Abortion is a major mortal sin. If one has anything to do with an abortion (besides trying to stop it) they are automatically excommunicated. They have to confess, and probably go through a program or something to be accepted back into the community. As far as I know, there is only one acceptable abortion: that in which the mother and child would die anyway so that birth would end up in a loss of both lives.



Contraception is a mortal sin. You cannot use it. The use of contraception is an abuse to the gift of sexuality.



Confession is not like a drive through. It is only valid if one does an examination of conscience, is truly sorry for what they've done, confesses everything that needs to be confessed (i.e. 'I missed Sunday Mass, and I also had premarital relations' rather than "I missed Sunday Mass"), and has tried to repent.

Answer 3

its not only catholics Muslims too get abortions and at some parts of the world its done by using the most archaic methods that sometimes leads to the death of the woman.

I live in turkey where abortion is legal and permitted by law but seen and as a disgrace and sin by community like at some places all around the world.

Religion is just a tool that people use to get other people to do what they want. I'm not saying that abortion is the best thing to do but as long as something is forbidden and closed it'll eventually be tempting and the only way to go with.

As a student who graduated from a catholic school in a Muslim oriented country, decisions and their consequences has to be between the individual and God not the church,priests,parents,couples,unborn children and laws.

Answer 4

Catholics who participate or even promote abortion are not allowed communion officially. They do not ask everyone at the communion line. The prohibition tocontraception is of the artificial type. There is no requirement to have sex randomly or regularly. It can be avoided at any time for any reason. That is natural "birth control" and it is 100% effective. No sex, no kid.

Answer 5

1) Because they have not been properly educated about contraception. And 2) many catholics get abortions just as many women of all faiths (and nonfaiths such as atheists) get abortions.



I have known many catholics who have had abortions, and it certainly seems that they have more than others, though I am not aware of any good studies. Most catholics I have known just adopt their own reasonable rules and reject the old dogma. But I can't understand why they bother to continue to stay with the catholic church under such circumstances.

Answer 6

well i think the whole sex before marriage thing is frowned upon.... but they damn near all do it & when they almost get "busted" by, i dunno.... showing a baby in the belly.... they say oh god i cant let god or anyone know im pregnant out of wedlock.. or that I even had :O SEX!!! yea let me kill it & cover up a sin with an even greater one. the bibly clearly states that anyone who causes harm to a unborn baby deliberately is a person guilty of murder. going under mosiac law of thou shalt not kill.

Exodus 21:22- (nkjv) "if men fight & hurt a woman with child so that she gives birth prematurely, yet no lasting harm follows he shall be punished accordingly as the womans husband imposes on him, & he shall pay as the judges determine. 23-but if any lasting harm follows (the fetus dies), then you shall give life for life, 24- eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot."

So anyone trying to justify having premarital sex & becoming pregnant, with an abortion... Is basically a moron. how will murder make premarital sex ok? people need to get a clue....

Answer 7

Because their church preaches against contraception, Duh!



Seriously, if you leave religion behind and become older and wiser you will realise that people do not practise what they preach, that abstinence classes make no difference, that restricting contraception only results in more pregnancies and that restricting abortions ends up with death and misery.



Thats the real world. The Christian right preach against common sense, but if one of their daughters end up pregnant it is straight off down the local clinic!

Answer 8

actual definite! From the Catechism of the Catholic Church: 2271 through fact the 1st century the Church has affirmed the ethical evil of each and every procured abortion. This coaching has not replaced and maintains to be unchangeable. Direct abortion, it extremely is to assert, abortion willed the two as an end or a potential, is gravely opposite to the ethical regulation: You shall not kill the embryo by using abortion and shall not reason the newborn to perish. God, the Lord of existence, has entrusted to adult men the noble challenge of safeguarding existence, and adult men could carry it out in a fashion worth of themselves. existence could be secure with the maximum care from the 2nd of concept: abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes. 2272 Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human existence. "a individual who procures a achieved abortion incurs excommunication latae sententiae," "by using the very fee of the offense," and concern to the situations presented by using Canon regulation. The Church does not thereby intend to limit the scope of mercy. quite, she makes clean the gravity of the crime committed, the irreparable injury achieved to the harmless who's placed to dying, besides as to the father and mom and the entire of society. 2274 through fact it is going to likely be dealt with from concept as a individual, the embryo could be defended in its integrity, cared for, and healed, so a techniques as a risk, like another person. Prenatal prognosis is morally licit, "if it respects the existence and integrity of the embryo and the human fetus and is directed in direction of its secure guarding or therapeutic as a individual. . . . that's gravely antagonistic to the ethical regulation while it is finished with the seen probable inducing an abortion, based upon the outcomes: a prognosis should not be the equivalent of a dying sentence." 2322 From its concept, the baby has the wonderful to existence. Direct abortion, it extremely is, abortion willed as an end or as a potential, is a "criminal" prepare (GS 27 § 3), gravely opposite to the ethical regulation. The Church imposes the canonical penalty of excommunication for this crime against human existence.

Answer 9

Not just Catholics getting abortions.



But good question...how does one kill the child and then pretend that this doesn't register on Jesus' radar?

Answer 10

Oy, its not just catholics, you know. Its Christians in general. They talk the talk real well but don't exactly walk the walk unless it suits them.

Answer 11

This is a lie. The chip on your shoulders will only get bigger if you don't get rid of it.

Answer 12

Because the priests pay for them.

Answer 13

i dont know of any that have said they have....... but i never thought to ask.



no, we cannot get away with anything- how silly

Answer 14

exaCTLY!