Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion.

For this reason procured abortion and euthanasia are absolutely unacceptable.

He also worked on cases where priests impregnated girls then procured abortions for them.

It's giving the impression that it must be morally correct to support procured abortion.

Among all the crimes which can be committed against life, procured abortion has characteristics making it particularly serious and deplorable.

All types of procured abortion have been condemned as a truly horrendous crime afflicting society.

Ronalds was apparently pregnant on at least two occasions and procured abortions in 1882 and 1884.

Absolute respect for every innocent human life also requires the exercise of conscientious objection in relation to procured abortion and euthanasia.

She also criminally procured abortions - both medical (using preparations such as ergot) and surgical (by injecting a solution).

Examples given are the teaching on the reservation of ordination to males, and on the immorality of procured abortion.

Since the Catholic Church views procured abortion as gravely wrong, it considers it a duty to reduce its acceptance by the public and in civil legislation.

For this reason the very nature of homologous IVF and ET also must be taken into account, even abstracting from the link with procured abortion.

Consequently any violence applied by such authorities in favor of contraception or, still worse, of sterilization and procured abortion must be altogether condemned and forcefully rejected.

In 1974, the Congregation published a "declaration on procured abortion", re-asserting the Church's opposition to the controversial procedure since the publication of Humanae Vitae.

The Magisterium has not expressly committed itself to an affirmation of a philosophical nature, but it constantly reaffirms the moral condemnation of any kind of procured abortion.

For example, the Catholic Church considers all procured abortions morally evil, while traditional Jewish teaching sanctions abortion if necessary to safeguard the life and well-being of the pregnant woman.

Considered by the Church to be of an even greater gravity is the murder of family members, including "infanticide, fratricide, patricide, the murder of a spouse and procured abortion."

Such deliberate destruction of human beings or their utilization for different purposes to the detriment of their integrity and life is contrary to the doctrine on procured abortion already recalled.

It issued a clarification that the article did not signal a change of doctrine and said that "the Church's teaching on procured abortion has not changed, nor can it change".

Pope Pius IX, therefore, in his Bull of 1869, declared excommunicate all who procured abortion, without any distinction as to whether the foetus was formed, animate or inanimate.

According to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' "Pro-Life Activities" website, the Catholic Church has condemned procured abortion as immoral since the 1st century.

When the Alan Guttmacher Institute surveyed more than 10,000 women who had procured abortions in 2000 and 2001, it found that only 12 percent cited problems obtaining birth control as a reason for their pregnancies.

Duty was excused them only during the last month before labor and the first month after it, which meant that the women strove not to fall pregnant, and that many who did immediately procured abortions.

Pro-Life Corner: The moral gravity of procured abortion is apparent in all its truth if we recognize that we are dealing with murder and, in particular, when we consider the specific elements involved.

Since the 1st century, the Church has affirmed that every procured abortion is a moral evil, a teaching that the Catechism of the Catholic Church declares "has not changed and remains unchangeable".