Best Pro-Life Quotes from "Caritas In Veritate"

BEST PRO-LIFE QUOTES FROM “CARITAS IN VERITATE”
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009

Let’s have some common sense, reason and natural law on life. Pope Benedict XVI
Encyclical, “Truth in Love,” provides all of this. (Ref. LifeSiteNews.com – Tuesday, July 7th, 2009)

28. One of the most striking aspects of development in the present day is the important question of respect for life cannot in any way be detached from questions concerning the development of peoples…

Not only does the situation of poverty still provokes high rates of infant mortality in many religions, but some parts of the world still experience practices of demographic control, on the part of governments that often promote contraception and even go so far as to impose abortion. In economically developed countries, legislation contrary to life is widespread, and it has already shaped moral attitudes and praxis, contributing to the spread of anti-birth mentality; frequent attempts are made to export this mentality to other States as if it were a form of cultural progress.

Some non-government Organizations work actively to spread abortion, at times promoting the practice of sterilization in poor countries… to specific health-care policies which de facto involve the imposition of strong birth-control measures. Further grounds for concern are laws permitting euthanasia …

Openness to life is the centre of true development. When a society moves towards the denial or suppression of life, it ends up no longer find the necessary motivation and energy to strive for man’s true good. If personal and social sensitivity towards the acceptance of a new life lost, then other forms of acceptance that are valuable for society also wither away. The acceptance of life strengthens moral fiber and makes people capable of mutual help; wealthy peoples can better understand the need of poor ones…

44. The notions of rights and duties in development must also take account of the problems associated with population growth. This is a very important aspect of authentic development, since it concerns the inalienable values of life and the family. To consider population increase as a primary cause of underdevelopment is mistaken, even from an economic point of view.

Morally responsible openness to life represents a rich social and economic resource. Populous nations have been able to emerge from poverty thanks not least to the size of their population and the talents of their people. On the other hand, formerly prosperous nations are presently passing through a phase of uncertainty and some cases decline, precisely because of their falling birth rates; this has become a crucial problem highly affluent societies. The decline in births, falling at times beneath the so-called “replacement level”, also puts a strain on social welfare systems,

In order to protect nature, it is not enough to intervene with economic incentives or deterrents; not even an apposite education is sufficient. These are important steps, but the decisive issue is the overall moral tenor of society. If there is a lack of respect for the right to life and to a natural death, if human conception, gestation and birth are made artificial, if human embryo are sacrificed to research, the conscience of society ends up losing the concept of human ecology and along with it, that of environmental ecology.

In vitro fertilization, embryo research, the possibility of manufacturing clones and human hybrids: all this is now emerging and being promoted in today’s highly disillusioned culture, which believes it has mastered every mystery, because the origin of life is within our grasp… the powerful new instruments that the “Culture of Death” has at its disposal… the systematic eugenic programming of births…
George H. Kubeck