Pro-Life…A Seamless Garment

Being Pro-life is being against abortion and much more.

Pope Francis in his Apostolic Exhortation on Holiness says: "Our defense of the innocent unborn, needs to be clear, firm, and passionate, for at stake is the dignity of a human life, which is always sacred and demands love for each person, regardless of his or her stage of development.  Equally sacred, however, are the lives of the poor, those already born, the destitute, the abandoned and underprivileged…the victims of human trafficking, etc.”    

In that same letter he says: "We often hear it said that…the situation of migrants, for example, is a lesser issue.  Some Catholics consider it a secondary issue compared with "grave" bioethical questions.  That a politician, looking for votes, might say such a thing is understandable, but not a Christian, for whom the only proper attitude is to stand in the shoes of those brothers and sisters of ours who risk their lives to offer a future to their children..."

20 years ago Cardinal Bernadin called for 'a consistent ethic of life' which he named ‘a seamless garment’.  Question: What does it mean for you to be Pro-Life? 

*The quotes from Pope Francis are from Paragraphs 101 and 102 of his letter on Holiness.