Abortion is a moral evil.

This post first appeared on Instagram on December 16, 2020.

CCC 2271: “Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law.” (Please read CCC 2270-2275 for more inspiration.)

Each of these letter/number combinations represents cells from a human being who was aborted.

RA273 (1969)
MRC-5 (1970)
Wi-38 (1961)
WI-26 (1964)
WI-44 (1964)
HEK-293 (1970)
IMR-90 (1978?)
IMR-91 (1993?)
Lambda-hE.1 (1980)
PER C6 (2001)
WALVAX 2 (2015)

A *bare* minimum of 211 babies have been harvested for parts in the name of medical science. (Source linked into profile.) There are likely many, many more that we don’t know about because they never produced “viable tissue.” We also can’t account for the aborted babies that we know were sold by Planned Parenthood in the name of science.

(Edited to add: we also can’t account for the babies whose skin is peeled off and grafted onto mice for the purpose of testing skin agents. 🤢)

My question:

Are we okay with this? Are we as a culture okay with the fact that yes, in fact “tissues” do degenerate over time, causing the need for new “cell lines” (aborted babies)?

How many babies is too many babies? 100? 1000? 1,000,000?

I vote for ONE. ONE aborted baby is too many.

“Any link to the abortion process, even the most remote and implicit, will cast a shadow over the Church’s duty to bear unwavering witness to the truth that abortion must be utterly rejected. The ends cannot justify the means.” -Bishop Athanasius Schneider

If every pro-life person refused to take a morally compromised medicine, pharmaceutical companies would be faced with a potential loss of millions of dollars. I wonder how quickly the companies would figure out a new one then?

If not you, then who?
If not now, then when?