Benedict Xvi's Argument In Favor Of Abortion

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As a Catholic Pro-Life supporter, it is my job to stand for life, and to respect and defend life always and everywhere, including unborn children. As Pope Francis exclaimed to all the Catholics of the world. Also Pope Benedict XVI urged us to support the women who may resort to abortion as a way out of the fear, anxiety, and embarrassment of have an accident child conceived, but let me set one abstraction straight; The way I see it an accident is none existing. God has a plan for everyone, and by using abortion it end the chance of the baby ever becoming something great. In order to stop the monstrosity against mankind we have to start and where it all begins, the mother. We have to support the mother and get her out of any harmful

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