ANSWER by Bro. Ignatius Mary, OLSM on May 23, 2004

Dear Doug: Catholics have a moral obligation to not vote for those politicians who support abortion. Abortion CANNOT be compared to capital punishment or to war. Abortion deliberately and with pre-meditation kills a totally innocent person. Capital Punishment is morally permissible in some situations according to the Church. I would suggest that the United States does not meet the test that allows execution, but nevertheless those executed are those who have been found guilty of capital crimes. What crime has the unborn baby committed? As to the war, I am not aware of any definitive proclamation by the Holy See of Iraq being an unjust war. In addition, whether just or not, the war sought to remove a monster from power. How is the unborn a monster? The fact that Bush obeyed Texas law concerning capital punishment and went to war with Iraq doesn't come within a billion trillion miles of the heinous nature of what amounts to the equivalent first degree (pre-mediated) murder against an unborn baby (at least on the part of the abortion providers) and the cultural and legal extermination of the unborn that is morally no different that Hitler's government that made a law that allowed the attempted extermination of the Jews. The lesser of two evils, in spades, would be to vote for Bush. God Bless, Bro. Ignatius Mary