The Catholic Church professes a consistent ethic of life. Pope
John Paul writes in The Gospel of Life, "Where life is involved,
the service of charity must be profoundly consistent. It cannot
tolerate bias and discrimination, for human life is sacred and
inviolable at every stage and in every situation; it is an
indivisible good. We need then to show care for all life and for
the life of everyone" (EV, 87). Consistency is not hard to
understand. It flows from the nature of love itself. If we love
God, we love the people He has created and redeemed. Moreover,
if we acknowledge that only God has dominion over human life,
this obviously includes every human life. To stand with God is
to stand with life, and therefore to stand against whatever
destroys life. The Church defends the dignity of the human
person, no matter what the assault on that dignity may be.
Catholics, and all people by their common humanity, are called
to be concerned about abortion and euthanasia, education and
health care, capital punishment