Finn also turns to Pope Benedict for insight on how Americans should view the choice they will face in the voting booth. ‘The fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself. This is true of life from the moment of conception until its natural end. Abortion, consequently, cannot be a human right – it is the very opposite. It is “a deep wound in society’.”
Contrary to some Catholics who have been arguing that other moral concerns can outweigh a candidate’s position on abortion, Bishop Finn said, “Our Catholic moral principles teach that a candidate’s promise of economic prosperity is insufficient to justify their constant support of abortion laws, including partial-birth abortion, and infanticide for born-alive infants.”
Finn also targeted the Freedom of Choice Act, describing it as a “pledge to eliminate every single limit on abortions achieved over the last thirty-five years.” Sen. Barack Obama has promised to sign the Freedom of Choice Act into law if he is elected president. “The real freedom that is ours in Jesus Christ compels us, not to take life, but to defend it,” Bishop Finn stated.