It amazes me how many people say the Catholic Church is just #probirth. Sure there are some high-profile sinners, but there are many more Catholics supporting people from conception to death. Here is a thread of some examples.
Regina Moody retires as Holy Angels CEO after 40 years. Holy Angels provides the highest quality care for differently-abled children and adults, some with delicate medical conditions. shar.es/af0L1p
Cross Catholic Outreach is an organization where over 90% of money raised is going towards their mission of “Delivering food, shelter, and hope to the poorest of the poor.” In 2014, 267 projects were funded expanding across 36 different countries. crosscatholic.org/impact/
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#Prochoice and #Prolife, this is why the #RomanianOrphanCrisis came about. I think we can agree this is not going to happen in the US. "In 1966 Ceausescu’s regime made abortion illegal and each family had an obligation to the state to have at least four children... 1/6
"In a world where 10 eggs, 4 kilos of flour, 1 kilo of meat, and a pound of butter per person was the norm for a month’s supply of food, many Romanian families could not possibly support more than the required minimum quota of children, and that too was done with great effort 2/6
"However, with abortion being illegal, many parents could only keep their first four children and put the rest in orphanages.
Also, during Ceausescu’s reign, frequent malnutrition and low standards of living caused the life expectancy rate to be significantly lower than... 3/6
A co-founder of NARAL who realized he had killed human beings in the womb and spent the rest of his life telling the world it's wrong to kill your own child.
It's a strawman argument to say #Prolife people don't care about people after they are born. Many of us in the US don't like how the gov spends money and prefer to donate and work more on a local level. Following is a long 🧵of some of what we do.
Most of us donate time and money to causes that aren't specifically anti-abortion. We volunteer in our communities, donate money to churches, charities and non-profits, donate items we no longer need, host food drives and support organized charities such as those following...
This is just a short list of some of the things pro-lifers do in addition to trying to prevent prenatal homicide. joshuashouseint.org
"The purpose of human rights is to protect human goods. The very suggestion that it could be good for mothers to set them against their own offspring is an insult to women and a setback to the cause of their dignity." #HumanRights#WomensRightsAreHumanRights
"Abortion cannot be a 'reproductive right', because it has nothing to do with enabling people to reproduce. It is not even merely an anti-reproductive right, because rather than just snuffing out fertility, it extinguishes a life." #reproductiverights#reproductivejustice