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On life and liberty.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)

From: National Catholic Reporter  |  Date: 10/15/2004  |  Author: Arendt, Charlotte; Meyer, Earl R.; Murray, Dave; Wunderlick, George

* Your editorial regarding abortion (NCR, Sept. 24) has a revealing sentence:, "Of all the liberties Americans enjoy today the right to terminate a pregnancy is one of the least jeopardized."

The Catholic tradition has never considered abortion as "a liberty to be enjoyed," It has always been considered a horrendous crime, from the Didache, to Gaudium et Spes, to Evangelaium Vitae.

NCR continues to drift further and further away from the authentic Catholic tradition.

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