When is a fetus-person not a fetus-person? When it’s a lawsuit.
If a woman voluntarily gets an abortion, it’s murder, the Catholic church says. Because a fetus is an unborn person. If a woman uses hormonal birth control that might endanger a zygote, she’s a murderer, the Catholic church says. Because a zygote is an unimplanted person. If a slack-ass obstetrician can’t answer his damn pages and a woman and two potentially viable fetuses die, it’s a crying shame, says Catholic Health Initiatives, but there’s not much that can be done about it because fetuses aren’t people.
...read moreYou gotta love any story that involves the phrase “rebellious ex-nuns”
And it’s kind of a doozy, too. KAZIMIERZ DOLNY, Poland (AP) — Police evicted 65 rebellious ex-nuns Wednesday from a convent they illegally occupied for two years after defying a Vatican order to replace their mother superior, a charismatic leader who had religious visions. The defeated nuns walked out in their black habits — some [...]
...read moreThe Church’s dirty war
Argentine priests are speaking up about the role of the Catholic Church in their country’s “dirty war.” And they’re indicting other priests who were complicit in atrocities: Some three months of often chilling testimony in the trial illustrated how closely some Argentine priests worked with military leaders during the dirty war. Witnesses spoke about how [...]
...read moreAmnesty International supports human rights; conservative groups shocked.
Amnesty International has dropped its neutral stance on abortion and has taken the position that women are people, too — and that they deserve the basic right to decide when and if they have children. Christian organisations, including the Roman Catholic Church, have threatened to withdraw support from the group. The decision in April by [...]
...read moreCatholic Church’s backwards logic
The feminist president of Chile helped to promote legislation that legalized the distribution of emergency contraception in her country. Reproductive freedom is very limited in Chile, where the age of sexual consent is 14 and 15% of all pregnancies are to girls under the age of 18. Access to EC is a big step in [...]
...read moreGoodbye.
Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things. I grew up watching Ed Bradley. He has died of leukemia at 65. I had heard that he was in ill health, [...]
...read moreWe Lost a Good One This Week
We should all tip our collective hats in respect to Lawrence Lader, a great activist and supporter of abortion rights, who passed away on Sunday. Mr. Lader was a major voice in the abortion debate for four decades, becoming a lightning rod for its critics as well as a beacon for its proponents. He wrote [...]
...read moreBreaking a Stupid Law
It’s kind of refreshing to have nice things to say about the Catholic Church. A bit of background: Roger Cardinal Mahony, the Archbishop of Los Angeles, has stated that he will direct priests in his Archdiocese to ignore any law, such as the Border Protection, Antiterrorism and Illegal Immigration Control bill working its way through [...]
...read moreCardinal Law
I believe this headline from the Kansas City Star says it perfectly: “Disgraced Law celebrates Mass for pope”. Over the past week, I have often found myself coming to the defense of Pope John Paul II on liberal blogs. While I am no big fan of the Roman Catholic Church (I’m too Baptist to like [...]
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