UK Bishops Warn Catholics to Vote Against Abortion Agenda
by Jules Gomes, Church Militant:
Britain’s Labour and Liberal Democrats want to legalize abortion up to birth.
Catholic bishops of England and Wales are warning Catholics not to vote for politicians who are pushing for abortion in Britain’s forthcoming general election.
“Catholics should back only candidates who uphold rights of unborn children,” the bishops said in a statement issued Friday after their November 2019 plenary meeting in Leeds, England.
Stressing the profound importance to the United Kingdom of the December general election, the bishops quoted Pope Francis saying that Catholics cannot simply “watch from the balcony.”
The prelates called on Catholics to vote only for candidates who will uphold “the innate dignity of every human being; defending both the child in the womb and the good of the mother.”
The bishops’ direct intervention days before the election is being interpreted as a call against voting for the Labour or Liberal Democrats, as both parties have stated their intent to decriminalis\ze abortion up to birth by ending all legal restrictions.
The Labour election manifesto categorically states: “We will uphold women’s reproductive rights and decriminalize abortions.” The change in law would scrap the current 24-week time limit for abortion, making it available on demand, for any reason, up to birth.
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