26 June 2007
Nairobi — The Catholic Church will severe its links with organisations which support abortion.
In a Press statement issued by Catholic Bishops of Kenya at the Kenya Institute of Education, the church said it would have nothing in common with any lobby group associated with pro-abortion activities.
"If a thief is stealing and you stand far watching, does that position absolve you from the sin of stealing?" asked Archbishop John Njue, the Kenya Episcopal Conference chairman.
He said the church supported the stand by the Vatican calling for a boycott of Amnesty International operations because of its pro-abortion activities.
"Abortion, whether legal or not kills babies; damages women, harms families, degrades the medical profession, weakens nations and destroys churches. That is why the common sense of history has always condemned it," the prelate said.
To extinguish the first spark of life is as wrong as it is to destroy an infant, a teenager or an adult.
The statement came in the wake of heightened campaigns for the legalisation of abortion worldwide, including today's mock tribunal in Nairobi.
Save life
Archbishop Njue took issue with a recent report on abortion carried in the Saturday Nation.
He said in the bishops' statement: "It appears that they (doctors) have completely abandoned the Hippocratic philosophy that mandates them to save life, and have instead taken a new measuring rod that they quickly justify."
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