Members of parliament have no choice but to vote for a law which protects life from the time of conception till natural death, and this for two reasons.

The first is the feeble, nay hopeless position of the so-called pro-choice faction.  Disguised as true liberty and progress, the feminist “solution” to individual and communal concerns is nihilistic, as killing new life must necessarily be.

Killing human offspring wounds the mother, coarsens those who counsel her, brutalizes doctors and nurses who assist with abortions and, in the end, corrupts the thinking of all people in society who approve and tolerate it.

Abortion is an act of violence against the innocent and such acts, especially when approved in law, break down the dignity of all human beings.  They lead to more violence and destruction such as child abuse, the abuse of women and the further brutalization of men.

The second reason why federal politicians have no choice, is religion- particularly the Christian religion.  Most other world religions also reject abortion, of course, as does human reason itself, even if unaided by God’s revelation.  But the vast majority of our MPs are Christians.

Christians believe that “God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him” (1 John 4:9).  Thus through the love of Christ we are urged to be fellow workers of God (1 Cor. 3:9), to form one body (Rom. 12:5) and to be of one mind with Christ (John 15:5, and many other places).

The Christian’s task has been described by Vatican II as that “of restoring and enhancing the dignity of the human person, of strengthening the fabric of human society, and of enriching the daily activity of men with a deeper meaning and importance (Church in the World, no. 40)

What then are we to think about the secularism introduced in Canada by Pierre Trudeau in 1967?

While Christianity allows political and temporal affairs its proper sphere and autonomy, it rejects the idea that

“we may immerse ourselves in earthly activities as if these latter were utterly foreign to religion, and religion were nothing more than the fulfillment of acts of worship and the observance of a few moral obligations” (no. 43).

The same Council also states that Christian men and women should “cultivate a properly informed conscience and to impress the divine law on the affairs of the earthly city” (no. 43).

All this is merely re-stating what Jesus told his disciples:

“I tell you, every one who acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man also will acknowledge before the angels of God; but he who denies me before men will be denied before the angels of God.” (Luke 12:8-9).

The killing of the unborn is directly contrary to the law of God.  Politicians, on ???? of their eternal salvation, have no choice but to stop it.