"We cannot compartmentalize our public acts from God’s will, not even in the name of pluralism, democracy, or compassion, and formal cooperation with the evil of abortion prevents us from being in full communion with Christ and his Church."

The combination of the physical and spiritual had a profound effect on all of us.

My parents don’t want me to hang out with some friends because they think they’re a bad influence on me. But aren’t we called to evangelize?

Having discovered not one life but two would be ended, any consideration of abortion vanished.