Catholics Can't Be Pro-Abortion

I was wandering into Wal-Mart the other day when I noticed a bumper sticker on a van that read, "Catholics can't be pro-abortion." And as I was walked into the store, I thought to myself, "Technically it's correct, Catholics can't be pro abortion. They can, however, be pro-choice."

While I was in college, I had an argument with two friends of mine who are conservative Christians and the topic was abortion. I told both of them, before giving up the argument because I knew we would never change each others minds so it was silly to continue, that just because they believe the embryo has a soul, doesn't mean that other women have that same belief and that they shouldn't force their moral codes on others who do not believe in the same things as they do. I just didn't say it as clearly as I just wrote it now at the time. I had a similar discussion with my boss recently as well.

I think it's funny how "pro-lifer's" are trying (and most likely succeeding as you don't often hear from the pro-choice camp anymore) to switch the wording on us by removing the word "choice" and replacing it with "abortion." Pro-choice is not pro-abortion. Pro-choice is the belief that all women have the choice to do what they want with their bodies according to their own consciences/religions. There are many moral codes in this world, and to restrict all women to just the Christian moral is wrong. So Catholics can be pro-choice, as long as they are wise enough to realize that there are more than just other Catholics in the world who follow the Bible who do not believe in the same things that they do. To everyone out there who doesn't believe in abortion for whatever reason but still believes in all women having a choice, I salute you.

As for myself, I will probably never be "pro-abortion," but I will always be pro-choice.