Abortion | What You Need to Know
Abortion is the greatest single scourge of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, claiming far more innocent lives than any other threat, including war, poverty, starvation and natural disasters. This grave moral evil is also the centerpiece of the contemporary culture wars which divide most Western nations, particularly the United States, which is split almost evenly.
Essential Perspective
- What Is Abortion?
- Abortion: Correct Application of Natural Law Theory
- The Roman Catholic Church and Abortion: An Historical Perspective
Extra Reading
Abortion is closely related to sterilization and contraception; the psychological well-being of women, men and children; the health of the family; socio-economic patterns, materialism and consumerism; and of course politics. Here are four related documents which will provide brief orientations to several of these subsidiary topics:
- Contraception and Abortion
- Post-Abortion Grief
- The Effects of Abortion on Men
- On Voting for Pro-Abortion Candidates
Other areas which bear study include the general relationship between abortion and what Pope John Paul II called the “culture of death”, the question of whether pro-abortion politicians should be denied communion, the use of government funds for abortion, the West’s determination to export an abortion culture to the third world, and so on. Information on these related issues may be found by searching the library.