Which is the thing - it is the choice made:

BAKER, Ore. (Catholic Online) – A Catholic cannot believe in what the church teaches and accept that the taking of a human life through abortion is just a choice, said an American bishop in a veiled, but clear reference to the speaker of the U.S. House of Represenatives.

In a March 1 column entitled “There are just and unjust choices – a church teaching helps,” Bishop Robert Vasa made a distinction between a choice, an unjust choice and a just choice, in challenging the view that abortion is unassailable as personal decision. The column appeared in that date’s issue of the Catholic Sentinel, the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Portland, Ore., and the Diocese of Baker.

“The direct, intentional taking of the life of an innocent human being is inhumane and unjust. It is not just a choice,” the bishop wrote.

While not identifying her by name, Bishop Vasa took aim at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

He noted that “some months ago a prominent Catholic public person, described as faithful to the church, was asked if being pro-choice or pro-abortion was an issue which conflicted with the Catholic faith.”

In an October 2006 Newsweek interview, reporter Eleanor Clift asked Pelosi whether with “a Catholic background … was embracing choice an issue with your family.”

Her response, quoted by Bishop Vasa in his letter, was: “To me it isn’t even a question. God has given us a free will. We’re all responsible for our actions. If you don’t want an abortion, you don’t believe in it, [then] don’t have one. But don’t tell somebody else what they can do in terms of honoring their responsibilities.”

As the Bishop went on to note, it is catagorically impossible to be a Catholic and believe that a choice to abort is acceptable. The deliberate taking of innocent human life - and it is becoming ever more inescapable that an unborn child is a human life - is a morally wrong thing to do.

The sad, and rather disgusting thing, of our modern world is the elevation of choosing to be the end of all life. It doesn't matter what you choose, just as long as you make the choice freely (unless, of course, it is a choice to organise prayer on public property...that is a bad choice). The "pro choice" argument, if you think about it, would have it being ok to be a child molestor, but bad if the child doesn't get to choose to be molested...as long as everyone is choosing, its all good.

There are good choices, and bad choices - and our job, as creatures with free will and the law of God inscribed on our souls, is to try to make the right choice.

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