Letter to the Editor

Recently in Loyola University’s student newspaper, The Phoenix, there was an article entitled Abortion and the faithful/conservative paradox. I am submitting a letter to the editor in response to the article and I would like to share it here as well...

When I read this article it literally broke my heart. To think that a person would choose to murder another human being, who can’t defend them self, to save their own life just boggles my mind. Mr. Betori, I think it’s great that you want to stand with raped and dying woman but do it in a responsible way. A good moral rule of thumb to try out is: you can’t kill one to save a thousand. Our ends can never justify our means no matter how good the end may be. We Christians have God’s law to hold which clearly state “Thou shall not kill.” Now you may be asking “why is it morally acceptable to allow a mother to die to save her child’s life?” The doctors on the case should do everything within their power to save both lives, but if the mother unfortunately passes in the process then it was within the natural order that she die. No doctor or lack of treatment killed her.

I agree that Roe vs. Wade is not the most important issue facing the world today. However, there is no greater moral crisis than the diminishing of human dignity and worth. You cannot deny that all pro-choice people are completely ok with human beings murdering one another. So when we are ok with killing people and supporting immoral and SELFISH decisions, as is the case with abortion and euthanasia, we are committing a grave moral offence. No Catholic “high up” is denying people entrance into paradise, just like God doesn’t send anyone to hell. We condemn ourselves to hell when we sin and deny ourselves of the beatific vision by voluntarily turning away from God. St. Joseph Hospital stripped them self of their Catholic title before the Bishop did when the hospital decided to break away from Church teaching by participating in an act deemed morally sinful.. Bishop Olmsted just made their break away from the Church official.

Since I am one of those people who thumb through a rosary often I pray for an end to murder and for a greater respect for all human life. If we put people in jail for killing others then why should our tax dollars support woman committing the same crime? May Mary, our Immaculate Mother, intercede for us and help turn our world into one that respects the dignity of all human life from conception to natural death.

-Dominic Clemente Jr. '12