Monday November 6, 2000

POPE SAYS CHRISTIAN POLITICIANS CAN NEVER SUPPORT ANTI-LIFE LAWS

Life and Family Top Legislative Priorities

VATICAN, Nov 6 (LSN.ca) - At the Jubilee of Politicians this weekend, Pope John Paul II was explicit in his statements warning politicians against supporting anti-life laws. In his formal address on Saturday he referred to laws which do "not respect the right to life - from conception to natural death - of every human being, whatever his or her condition - healthy or ill, still in the embryonic stage, elderly or close to death."

The pope said, "Christian legislators may neither contribute to the formulation of such a law nor approve it in parliamentary assembly, although, where such a law already exists, it is licit for them to propose amendments which would diminish its adverse effects." He added that "The same must be said with regard to all laws which would do harm to the family, striking at its unity and its indissolubility, or which would give legal validity to a union between persons, including those of the same sex, who demand the same rights as the family founded upon marriage between a man and a woman."

The statement by the Pope clears up debate even among pro-lifers as to the promotion of abortion laws in countries where no law on abortion is in place.

For the entire address by the Pope see:
http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=8955

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