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As Catholics, concerning abortion, we are required to hold two conflicting things in our minds. On the one hand, life is the womb is immortal, and thus fully human, and thus not to be snuffed out. On the other, we are required to respect the freedom of conscience of those who hold that we are not immortality, that life in the womb, up to some point, is merely potentially human, but not yet fully human. That's what Jesus sees.

How resolve this conflict? 

First, it would be utterly immoral for us to attempt to impose our convictions about immortality and thus about life in the womb on others, and therefore, in a pluralistic society, we may NOT attempt to make our conviction the law of the land. To push for a law outlawing abortion is no different that condoning the inquisition, which in our past, imposed religious views on others.

Second, we must do everything we can to diminish the frequency of abortion, short of imposing our views on others at the point of the sword of the law.