Camosy on Abortion & Attitudes | National Catholic Reporter

Camosy on Abortion & Attitudes | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: Camosy gets his data on young people who participate in the March on Life.  Many of these are capitves of the Catholic High School and University systems.  They also are not having much sex.  Once they become sexually active, whether inside or outside marriage, they will find that whether abortion is something to be available and avoided or made illegal hit much more close to home - especially once they experience either a miscarriage or a problem pregnancy that will eventually lead to miscarriage - with more adverse consequences to the woman the longer the pregnancy goes. (and a Church that is largely deaf to the plight of women in these situations).   They will also face the question of more mouths to feed than they imagined and not enough money to do it - with a pro-life movement (at least on the Republican side) that calls for personal economic responsibility and calls them Moochers if they seek more assistance from public money or tax expenditures.  The only solution is the kind of economic justice called for by Francis and the other popes in their social encyclicals.  Economic justice is the hope for the cause, even if it alienates the Republicans in the movement.  It is not Francis who must change or even those of us who are unconvinced on the anti-abortion views highlighted today - but whether those Catholic leaders in the pro-life movement are willing to challenge the fiscal conservatives who resist helping families more directly.  It is not spin or tone - it is action that will convince me.  However, I doubt the USCCB Pro-Life Activities Office is up to it.