What could ever be a sufficient reason for excusing in any way the direct murder of the innocent? This is precisely what we are dealing with here. Whether inflicted upon the mother or upon the child, it is against the precept of God and the law of nature: 'Thou shalt not kill.'
Pope Pius XINo vicarious charity can substitute for justice which is due as an obligation and is wrongfully denied.
Pope Pius XICommunism teaches and seeks two objectives: unrelenting class warfare and the complete eradication of private ownership.
Pope Pius XIMan cannot be exempted from his divinely-imposed obligations toward civil society, and the representatives of authority have the right to coerce him when he refuses without reason to do his duty. Society, on the other hand, cannot defraud man of his God-granted right... Nor can society systematically void these rights by making their use impossible.
Pope Pius XI