Biden rejects Catholic teaching on who is a human

President Joe Biden publicly proclaims the Catholic faith, and he uses it to his political benefit. The news media calls him “deeply Catholic.”

That makes it very relevant that he explicitly and publicly rejects a bedrock belief of the Catholic Church.

“I respect those who believe life begins at the moment of conception and all, I respect that. Don’t agree. But I respect that.”

Biden isn’t merely disagreeing with the Church’s teaching on what abortion law should be. He’s not simply weighing rights of a mother versus rights of a baby. He’s outright rejecting the scientific fact that all unborn people are people, a scientific fact that, given the Christian teaching about the sanctity of human life, precludes abortion.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches: “Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person — among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life.”

The tendency of the secular press in this case is to defend the pro-choice Catholic as not wanting to impose his personal beliefs on the country. But Biden is insisting that the law match his personal belief that babies are not living humans when they are in the womb. He is also declaring that his personal belief, on something so fundamental as the nature of human life, is a total rejection of the basic teaching of his own religion.

And Biden can’t plead ignorance. He knows the Church’s teachings because before he became the Democratic nominee for president, he held that belief, as pro-life reporter Mary Margaret Olohan reminds us.