During this public debate, mention was made of Pope Francis’ GAUDETE ET EXSULTATE and a passage that the American bishops voted not to include in their document: “equally sacred [as the innocent unborn] . . . are the lives of the poor, those already born, the destitute, the abandoned and the underprivileged, the vulnerable infirm and elderly exposed to covert euthanasia, the victims of human trafficking, new forms of slavery, and every form of rejection” (No. 101). I suspect that the worry was that this rhetorical emphasis of the Pope might be wrongly interpreted as a grocery list from which one might pick-and-choose. While one might delineate a hierarchy of sins; the great injustices often include within themselves the lesser ones. There may be many issues such as the death penalty, infanticide, euthanasia, insufficient welfare for the poor, a lack of welcome for immigrants, unjust wages, human trafficking, etc.; but in abortion we find the penalty of death imposed upon the innocent— we find both infanticide and the wrongful compassion of euthanasia— we find bigotry against the poorest of the poor— we find a lack of welcome to a tiny visitor— we find one stripped of rights and value— we find a person reduced to a commodity, etc. We should not listen to the voices who oppose the tyrants of the right so that they might impose the tyranny of the left.
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