Question:
Answer:
The only way this analogy could work would be if it could be shown that abortion is a “necessary” service. The Church recognizes that abortion is not “necessary” but is a moral evil:
Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law (Catechism 2271).
In Christifideles Laici, St. John Paul II affirmed that the right to life is a fundamental human right and the necessary basis upon which we are to fight for all other personal rights:
The inviolability of the person, which is a reflection of the absolute inviolability of God, finds its primary and fundamental expression in the inviolability of human life. Above all, the common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights—for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture—is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition for all other personal rights, is not defended with maximum determination (38).