Gender & Sexuality
Sanctity of Life
The sacredness of mortal life from conception through natural death — abortion, contraception, miscarriage, infant loss, euthanasia, end-of-life care.
What's at issue
The sacredness of mortal life from conception through natural death — abortion, contraception, miscarriage, infant loss, euthanasia, end-of-life care. Score when the document substantively engages the moral status of human life or the doctrine that life is sacred. Pure foreign-policy or geopolitical commentary that mentions civilian casualties is NOT sanctity-of-life.
Where it appears in the Proclamation
Reading
- What Does the Church Actually Teach About Abortion?
- Surrogacy and the Mother a Child Loses
- "This Is My Body": Christ and the Sanctity of Life Before Birth
- Abortions of 'Medical Necessity'
- Before Bethlehem: What Jesus Christ’s Life in the Womb Teaches Us About the Sanctity of Life
- How Do I Begin Repenting and Healing After an Abortion?
- Joy in the Womb: Elisabeth, Mary, and the First Witness of Christ
- Repentance and Healing After an Abortion
- The Annunciation and the Unborn Christ
- Unexpected Pregnancy, Pressure, and the Options Nobody Mentions
- What Does Jesus Christ Teach Us About Life in the Womb?
- What If I'm Pregnant and Feel Pressure to Have an Abortion?