In reply to Rev. Robert Franek.

The Eighth Commandment, God does not command us to lie or permit sin in the name of accounting for the comprehensiveness and complexity of circumstances and thought that people who hold differing views have wrestled with in their own moral deliberation. Morality is not our own; the Law is given by God. The command is "You shall not murder." Intentionally ending the life of an unborn baby for the sin of being inconvenient to his mother is murder and is forbidden by God. The Church is not free to equivocate or reinterpret the eternal Law as though it changes as we gain "wisdom". We are to proclaim the Law in its full sternness, especially to an increasingly godless world. The matter of choice is a red herring; if abortion is murder (and it is) then we humans have no right to choose it.