The Church promises any woman who has had an abortion that if she comes to us repenting of her sin, she will find welcome and forgiveness. There is a movement in the world to permit the terminally ill to end their lives through euthanasia. Some claim that it is the ultimate civil liberty to decide the time and manner of one's own death. The choice to be a mother or father is not merely a human choice. It is God's choice first.
Parents discover that they have become parents several weeks after the fact.
The child already exists. She already is. And the man is already a father. It means that we oppose the killing of the innocent at all times. It means that we respect human life at all its stages and in all its conditions.