In Case Anybody Was Still Confused On The Right to Life Issue

The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that human life must be protected "from the moment of conception" and that abortion "is gravely contrary to the moral law." In his 1995 letter Evangelium Vitae, the "Gospel of Life," Pope John Paul II wrote that abortion and euthanasia cannot be justified under any circumstance:

"Abortion and euthanasia are thus crimes which no human law can claim to legitimize. There is no obligation in conscience to obey such laws; instead there is a grave and clear obligation to oppose them by conscientious objection. ... .In the case of an intrinsically unjust law, such as a law permitting abortion or euthanasia, it is therefore never licit to obey it, or to take part in a propaganda campaign in favour of such a law, or vote for it."