A: The short answer to your question is that excommunication is specifically a punishment for canonical crimes. And although political support for pro-choice policies is morally problematic, it is not a canonical crime in and of itself. For context, usually when we speak of pro-choice politicians being denied Holy Communion, the relevant citation is Canon…
In all the discussion over the years of whether or not pro-abortion politicians should be denied Holy Communion, I’ve always wondered: Why couldn’t their bishops just excommunicate them

