What's so tough about the Church's abortion stance? I don't understand. I thought that the Church simply taught that God endowed each of us with the certain, inalienable right to life when He created each of us. (Okay, I know that's the Declaration of Independence, but it doesn't get much clearer.) And He creates a baby at conception, not at birth. Just that simple, nothing tough.
You are right, yes it is the Declaration of Idependance, but it is also the doctrine of the Church.
Who can be against this?
Well, we've seen 'em, haven't we? And they don't look too purty, do they?
You can certainly look at it that way. But that's employing rights language, which is a relatively modern development.
Even older is the commandment of the decalogue: Thou shalt not kill.
The baby has a right to life. And we have a duty not to kill the innocent.