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November 20th, 2008
The CCHD controversy
by Jeff Guhin

David Gibson weighs in here.  It’s complicated, and I certainly support CCHD and I can’t think of any of their work I don’t support.  But I recognize that some conservatives feel that CCHD is not only paying too little attention to issues of abortion but is actually encouraging directly pro-choice activities.  The former, I feel, might be a question of priorities that reasonable people can disagree about, but the latter does seem contrary to Church teaching.  The problem, of course, is that a lot of groups doing great work are also officially pro-choice.  So can those groups be funded still?  I would say yes, provided the money is going to work that has nothing to do with abortion (job skills, addiction outreach, the list could go on and on) but I can understand those who would say we should only give to charities that have no pro-choice attachments at all.

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