The [abortion] excommunication affects all those who commit this crime with knowledge of the penalty attached, and thus includes those accomplices without which the crime would not have been committed.
Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)
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