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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.

