Today I still find that many good people are confused. Over the course of the years I have been asked many questions about life and abortion by many well-meaning people. GUIDELINES FOR PASTORS AND PARISHES ON LOBBYING AND ELECTIONEERING by the Catholic Bishops of Florida by the Catholic Bishops of Florida
To Doctors, Nurses and Other Health Care Professionals. Why don't we have prayers at every Mass to proclaim life and discourage abortion? What about pro-life people who demonstrate in front of abortion clinics, show pictures of aborted babies or use similar means to protest the killing of the unborn?Ģ3. Isn't the Church concerned that its opposition to candidates who support abortion will prevent people from voting Catholics into office?Ģ2. Suppose all candidates support "abortion rights"?Ģ1. But what of non-Catholics who support "abortion rights"?Ģ0. Why does the Church seem more critical of Catholics than of others?ġ9. Shouldn't the Church lose its tax-exempt status for involving itself in the politics of abortion?ġ8. Aren't the bishops interfering in politics?ġ7. Church and State are separate in America. Don't the bishops neglect the needs of women and children and the poor because of a preoccupation with abortion?ġ6. Can aborted babies be baptized or given Christian funerals?ġ5. What about abortion in cases of rape or incest?ġ4. Isn't the Church's position on abortion anti-woman?ġ3. What does the Church offer as an alternative?ġ2. The Church forbids the use of birth control. Don't some Catholics claim that they "personally oppose" abortion but that they can not "impose" that belief on others?ġ1. What is the Church's current penalty for abortion?ġ0. Hasn't Church teaching changed on the subject of abortion?ĩ. Isn't it un-American to deny people the right to choose?Ĩ. But do Catholics have the right to impose their beliefs on others?ħ. Why did the bishops hire a communications firm? Don't we read and hear enough about abortion in the media?Ħ. If abortion were again declared illegal, wouldn't many women risk their lives in back alley abortions?ĥ. Why do people in the pro-life movement want to change the law?Ĥ. 
Don't the majority of Americans support abortion?ģ. It is reprinted with the permission of Catholic New York.Ģ. It is not intended to represent that committee, and does not pretend to speak for the Bishops of the United States. I do not offer it in my capacity as Chairman of the Committee on Pro-Life Activities of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. Other readers, in New York and elsewhere, may find it of some interest, but I wish to make clear that I offer it as Archbishop of New York to try to meet needs within my own archdiocese. The following edition of "From My Viewpoint" is provided for Catholics in the Archdiocese of New York.
We therefore make it available to you. -Fr. Since that time, this column has proven to be a useful educational resource. In July of 1990, he dedicated an expanded version of that column to the subject of abortion. Each week in Catholic New York, the newspaper of the New York Archdiocese, His Eminence John Cardinal O'Connor reflects on issues pertinent to the faithful in his column From My Viewpoint.
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