(Rhode Island Catholic) — It’s easy to consider oneself pro-life when advocating for the unborn. There is a sentimental impact in seeing bright-eyed, chubby-cheeked babies on posters calling for an end to abortion.
Praying outside of Planned Parenthood clinics presents a visual witness to desperate women afraid to choose life. To be fully pro-life, however, one must respect both ends of life, conception and death, and not only death, but natural death.
The Catholic Church teaches that assisted suicide is morally unacceptable and it is “gravely contrary to the dignity of the human person,” according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church (2277). CONTINUE