[sitetest]

Dear 07055,

Anyone who directly effects the procurement of an abortion, and is Catholic, is automatically excommunicated. This includes the abortionist, and assisting nurses. It also includes boyfriends who drive the woman to the clinic, and parents who pay for it.

Catholic canon law interprets permissions broadly and penalties narrowly. Excommunication, being a serious penalty, is applied narrowly. Thus, those who don't directly effectively cause a specific abortion are not subject to excommunication.

Not that I'd have a problem with that.

But that's why Catholic politicians aren't automatically excommunicated for being pro-abortion.

sitetest

[jwalsh07]

Would not voting to keep PBA legal qualify under those parameters?

[happytobealive]

Anyone who directly effects the procurement of an abortion, and is Catholic, is automatically excommunicated. This includes the abortionist, and assisting nurses. It also includes boyfriends who drive the woman to the clinic, and parents who pay for it.

What are the ramifications of being excommunicated?

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But that's why Catholic politicians aren't automatically excommunicated for being pro-abortion.

If they truly looked into their hearts they would find themselves as complicant as anybody involved. Who knows, however, of what sins Ted Kennedy has been absolved.