I'm against abortion until my mistress needs one

[Pat Mustard]

It's the common hypocrisy of the religous right.
It's similar to how they condemn fornication and masturbation but almost all have done or do it. The difference is Murphy made a promise to his wife and this is what makes it immoral. And use a condom.

I knew of so-called traditional Catholics (the SSPX type, just Wikipedia it) that were getting abortions or were using birth control.  In fact, there were SSPX priests who advised that women should use birth control while these same women were "confessing" their sins in the confessional!  (Probably a good idea to use birth control anyway while in the confessional!)

P.S.  "Wikipedia" is now a verb, like "Google", and, remember it all started here (of course, this only means that it started somewhere else.)

That's mainly because up until 1869 the catholic church was a-ok with abortion, setting the limit at either forty days or thirteen weeks, depending on how conservative the theologian you were currently talking to was.