Originally published at The Catholic Thing
Earlier this month, the pro-abortion group “Catholics for Choice” stirred controversy online when it wrote in a tweet: “This holiday season, remember that Mary had a choice, and you should, too.” The explicit pro-abortion message is meant to equate Mary’s choice to be the mother of God with a mother’s “choice” to have an abortion. As theologian Mark Miravalle says, it is “malicious equivocation” to “imply that Mary’s ‘yes’ choice to bring our Redeemer into the world bears any similarity or moral equivalence to the tragic ‘no’ choice of a woman that leads to the direct killing of an innocent human being.”
