Free Does the Bible Really Say That?: Discovering Catholic Teaching in Scripture by Patrick Madrid Page B

from the Lord:... ‘Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail. Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Ba’al, and go after other gods that you have not known, and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, “We are delivered!”—only to go on doing all these abominations?’” The Lord’s words here apply well to Catholics today who countenance abortion and even promote it.
    Wisdom of Solomon 12:1–6   “For thy immortal spirit is in all things. / Therefore thou dost correct little by little those who trespass, / and dost remind and warn them of the things wherein they sin, / that they may be freed from wickedness and put their trust in thee, O Lord. / Those who dwelt of old in thy holy land / thou didst hate for their detestable practices, / their works of sorcery and unholy rites, / their merciless slaughter of children, / and their sacrificial feasting on human flesh and blood. / These initiates from the midst of a heathen cult, / these parents who murder helpless lives, / thou didst will to destroy by the hands of our fathers.”
    Catholics—indeed, all Christians—have a duty before God to speak out about this great evil, to warn those who are involved in the perpetuation of legalized abortion whether by their own political actions within government or by intentionally supporting and voting for avowedly pro-abortion candidates (see Ezekiel 3:18–21).
    Pro-abortion politicians and their supporters frequently attempt to cloak the objective evil of abortion with the language of righteousness and goodness, often referring to their cause as “protecting a woman’s right to choose.” This is simply euphemistic chicanery. It is nothing more than calling evil good.
    Isaiah 5:18–21   “Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, / who draw sin as with cart ropes.... / Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, / who put darkness for light and light for darkness, / who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! / Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, / and shrewd in their own sight!”
    When you vote in elections, consider carefully the following passage from Scripture and what it means, both for those evildoers in public office who promote abortion and for those citizens who knowingly and intentionally assist with their vote.
    Isaiah 10:1–3   “Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, / and the writers who keep writing oppression, / to turn aside the needy from justice / and to rob the poor of my people of their right, / that widows may be their spoil, / and that they may make the fatherless their prey! / What will you do on the day of punishment, / in the storm which will come from afar? / To whom will you flee for help, / and where will you leave your wealth?”
    This haunting image of those who “make the fatherless their prey” corresponds with hideous perfection to those in this country who, by promoting legalized abortion, performing abortions, and intentionally voting for pro-abortion candidates for political office, have turned the unborn child into their prey.
    The aborted children who are being killed by the millions in the United States are truly, in their final extremity, fatherless and motherless. Abandoned to the abortionist’s scalpel and vacuum, they have indeed become prey for the abortion industry, which grows ever richer with the blood money it receives from each unborn child it liquidates through abortion.
    God creates each human soul and infuses it, at the moment of conception, in the unborn baby’s body. To intentionally destroy that unborn life through abortion is murder—a grave sin—no matter what it may be called in polite society. And to be com-plicit in the perpetuation of the legalized murder of unborn babies through abortion is to be complicit in that sin.
     
    Further Reading: Hosea 4:1–4; Isaiah 33:1; 45:10–12; Romans 1:28–32
    CCC , 312, 1756,