Sentences with phrase «of innocent human life»

Let us focus mainly on the crime of murder, the deliberate taking of innocent human life.

Also the collateral damage, specifically the possible loss of innocent human life, is taken into account.

The first statement, which has to do with the taking of innocent human life, is the least controversial of the three.

To begin, it is unclear whether Collins has any moral qualms about the wanton destruction of innocent human life given his apparent optimism about the sufficiency of private funds for the doing the federal government's dirty work.

On abortion: Abortion is, put quite simply, the killing of an innocent human life who can do nothing to defend him or herself.

«Such social doctrine provides directions but, with few exceptions (for instance, the defense of innocent human life), does not provide directives of immediate applicability to policy questions on which people of good faith, guided by reason and conscience, can come to different conclusions.»

To endorse gay marriage, abortion and distruction of innocent human life, no matter what color of that child is unnatural and evil.

8) The sentence of death may be improper if it has serious negative effects on society, such as miscarriages of justice, the increase of vindictiveness, or disrespect for the value of innocent human life.

«The American democratic experiment will be debased and coarsened if it continues to deny the principle of the inviolability of innocent human life.

The Church, however, has consistently taught over the centuries that the direct and intentional taking of innocent human life, as in abortion, is a grave and intrinsic evil.

And it is certainly not irrational or irrelevant to insist on that most basic of civilizational requirements: the protection of innocent human life.

At some point we will start rationalizing the killing of innocent human life; oh wait we're already there with abortion!

And while I'm grateful believers and unbelievers can agree that the taking of innocent human life is wrong, without a basis for this knowledge, this is a position can turn on a dime.

At the same time, however, we must ask: If one believes that 25 million abortions are equivalent to 25 million instances of the taking of innocent human life, does not the analogy with the Holocaust become more appropriate?

In Poland, the priest - editor of a major Catholic magazine was convicted of violating a complainant's human rights and assessed a heavy fine because he described abortion for what it is: the willful taking of an innocent human life.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in a recent lecture: «A Christian should not support a government that suppresses the faith or one that sanctions the taking of an innocent human life.»

One part of the document says: «We can safely assume that many who seek to justify abortion would never agree with infanticide or any other taking of innocent human life.»

By what criteria do we absolutize the principle of autonomy independent of the object chosen — even when that choice entails the destruction of innocent human life?

Catholics, as well as any other group opposed to the taking of innocent human life, will find it difficult if not impossible to practice medicine in accordance with the ACOG recommendations.

The protection of innocent human life is the first responsibility of the limited state, and abortion is inescapably a public question.

Contrast the precept against the taking of innocent human life.

They must support the principle of the protection of innocent human life and the implementation of that principle in law.»

Meanwhile, the Republican Party has in recent decades become the champion of the Church's public priorities — the protection of innocent human life, parental choice in education, the defense of marriage, church - state cooperation, and an array of issues under the rubric of religious freedom.

The properly doctrinal part of EV comes in the third chapter, and especially in the three italicized statements within that chapter, in which the Pope condemns the taking of innocent human life, abortion, and euthanasia.