{"id":81996,"date":"2021-09-03T15:44:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T19:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=81996"},"modified":"2021-09-03T15:57:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T19:57:01","slug":"abortion-not-religious-issue-fundamental-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=81996","title":{"rendered":"Abortion Not Religious Issue, ‘Fundamental Human Rights’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Archbishop Cordileone: Abortion Not Religious Issue, ‘Fundamental Human Rights’<\/strong><\/h1>\n

By Sandy Fitzgerald
\nNEWSMAX<\/p>\n

The opposition to abortion isn’t a matter of religious doctrine, but an issue of “fundamental human rights,” Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone\u00a0of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, said in a Newsmax interview Friday while commenting on President Joe Biden’s opposition to the Supreme Court’s ruling on Texas’ abortion law.<\/p>\n

“There’s a lot of cognitive dissonance going on here,” Cordileone said on Newsmax’s “National Report.”<\/p>\n

“This issue is not something that’s religiously specific. It’s not a religious doctrine. It’s a matter of fundamental human rights and fundamental moral issues.”<\/p>\n

Biden, a Catholic, has railed against the Supreme Court’s decision not to block a Texas law banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy or after a fetal heartbeat is heard, calling it a violation of women’s rights. The president has also said he supports a woman’s right to choose and the landmark Roe v. Wade decision.<\/p>\n

The archbishop, though, said that religions, through “fundamental issues of justice” reinforce the opposition to abortion through their teachings, “but it’s not something denominationally specific.”<\/p>\n

Catholics, he added, are firm in their belief about fundamental human rights.<\/p>\n

“We’re against killing innocent human beings,” said Cordileone. “We’re in favor of supporting women in crisis pregnancy situations. The solution is never violence. Violence begets violence.”<\/p>\n

Instead, the solution is to surround a pregnant woman with “love and support,” said the archbishop.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know how one can claim to be a devout catholic when our church supports fundamental human rights and yet take positions opposing fundamental human rights.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, where Biden is concerned, Cardileone said he has “no doubt that in his heart he has\u00a0sort of an affectionate devotion for being Catholic, that his faith is important to him.”<\/p>\n

However, on “some fundamental issues” the president is “at odds with what we know to be true,” he said.<\/p>\n

“So our role as bishops is to teach the faith and bear witness to the faith. I think we have to teach even more emphatically and help our people understand that again the response in these situations is not violence. It’s love.”<\/p>\n

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