The Bishop of San Sebastián has published an article entitled “Voice of the Voiceless” which reminds that time has shown that the path of the “lesser evil” is coming to the end ‘greater evil’
The withdrawal by the Chairman of Governors’ Draft Organic Law for the Protection of Life designed and the Rights of Pregnant Women “is a political decision with very serious moral implications, since the measure of sr. Rajoy condemns hundreds of thousands of lives of people most absolute distresses lives.
The right to life is not a right anymore, but the one before all the rights, and on which all others are based. Obviously, the moral judgment of the policies pursued by a government is not confined to the protection of life. Experience tells us that some games may be more sensitive to certain ethical values, while others are to other moral values. But when what is at stake is the same right to live, not to be understood that we are facing one more issue, among many others. It is probably the greatest moral dramas of our society. Every day are killed in Spain over three hundred human lives, which are denied the most basic rights: the right to live.And this is done under the cover of an unjust law that recognizes the right to an abortion, that is, the right to kill.
While the Popular Party had said while in opposition disagreed with the abortion law Zapatero (2010), finally, it has come to assume the aberration of considering abortion as a human right.(We should note that there is no other state in the world that consider abortion as a right in law). Unfortunately, this is not the first time that such drift occurs in the Popular Party. The facts show that the supposed “left” is leading the way ending the alleged “right.” Whenever there are less real ideological differences between political parties, since they have taken over all the values of neo-capitalism, relativism and gender ideology. Someone said that the politically correct thinking of our days, is characterized by Marxist theory, practically liberal, and psychologically Freudian.
The decision taken by the President of Government reopens in a definitive way the existing long discussion within the Catholic Church: What kind of presence must have Catholics in political life? Is it consistent that Catholics are integrated into hosting parties in their proposed programs diametrically opposed to the Gospel values? Can Catholics vote for political parties that are in this situation, based on the principle of the “lesser evil”? Time has shown that the way the “lesser evil” is coming to the end “greater evil.” The choice of the “lesser evil” can only be received by a Christian so circumstantial and transitory; without falling into the temptation to make her his “watchword”. And is that … Jesus Christ taught us to invest in the well; not the lesser evil.
Similar to how I know that a significant number of members of the Basque Nationalist Party dropped out in his political activism, when his party took abortionists postulates, nor do I doubt that many now will also do the same in the Popular Party (although the political apparatuses try to mute this). We are facing an important test to measure our hierarchy of values: Ideology over moral values? Or the moral values over ideology? No room for compromise; we must choose.
Believers have a serious problem in today’s political spectrum there is no statewide party able to represent the Catholic vote. To put it plainly, a Catholic who aspires to be faithful to the principles of Catholic social teaching, you can not vote on coherence to national political parties present in the current Congress of Deputies.
The work of the bishops is the moral enlightenment, and not the formation of political alternatives. Here is one of the most important challenges in the Secular specific at this time.The vocation of lay Catholics, unlike the priests and bishops, is to be present in public life by proposing policy alternatives, able to embody consistently in public life the principles underlying Catholic social teaching.
Needless to say that although these reflections are primarily referred to Catholics, also apply to members of other faiths, and even quite a few nonreligious citizens who are committed to the integrity of moral values, including the sanctity of human life in the womb.
The question is: Who will lend his voice to the voiceless? Who is willing to defend the right to life of hundreds of thousands of innocent people who can not yet speak for themselves? And who offered to pregnant women who are in difficult situations an alternative to that death trap called “right to abortion”?
+ José Ignacio Munilla
Bishop of San Sebastián
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