The Catholic Church wants you to remember that fetuses are living, breathing, fully-formed soulss. No harm shall come to them. That would be murder. Sanctity of life and all that, yes? Unless one of their doctors is responsible for the termination… then fetuses don’t count!
Talk about having it both ways.
Abortion rights activists have found the golden ticket
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Obvious troll is obvious.
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Believe whatever you want to believe. I just thought it was you trolling.
If you really are a Satanist, you do realize you’re advocating for discrimination against a religious group just because you believe something different? That kind of stuff always sounds pretty trollish to me. It’s also quite hypocritical.
Sarcastic troll is sarcastic.
I peed on a horse once.
Satanism and atheism are not even remotely the same thing. Being a satanist also implies a belief in god, since satan and god are part of the same religion/belief system. Atheism is a belief in no god. Ergo, you may not be a troll, but you are awfully stupid….
I. Fucking. HATE. HYPOCRITES AND ASSHOLES. I am very very pro-life, and I’m also somewhat Christian-ish, but sometimes I just want to strangle the psychos who run the catholic church.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/24/new-mexico-abortion-bill_n_2541894.html
In New Mexico they’re “evidence”!
Fetuses are so many things…depends on how you look at them.
Like a Rorschach test.
Also, I just finished watching American Horror Story……. not a fan of the catholic church. (yes, I felt that way before watching the show). Really, not much of a fan of organized religion, but whatevs.
Lana performed a 179th trimester abortion.
This made me laugh so hard just now.
Fetus, don’t fail me now!
Damnit, DS. I want to have your abortions!
Line forms to the left, babe.
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It looks like hypocrisy because that’s exactly what it is. Abortion has been legal for 40 years now, and the Church has been steadfast in its condemnation of abortion for that entire time. Few things were as reliable as the Catholic Church’s opposition to abortion. Until now, when it might hit them in their wallet.
Suddenly, now, they do a complete 180. Suddenly, now, they acknowledge that it’s the law. Never before, only now when it’s good legal strategy. And make no mistake, it IS good legal strategy. That’s hardly the point though, is it? Doesn’t the Church represent God on earth; without a care for the petty laws of man? If their principles are so strong that they don’t budge one iota for 40 years, why stop now? Oh, because it might cost them money. I guess the Church is more interested in money than in taking a principled stand.
And when you mount a legal defense, aren’t you supposed to actually believe the things you’re saying to defend yourself? Doesn’t anything else look like a completely cynical snow job? Shouldn’t the Church care more about their principles than about how much money it might cost them?
Holding one position for decades, then completely reversing one’s self when the threat of financial damage looms, is hypocritical. It would be hard to find a more textbook example. Imagine if the woman who died in this story, and her husband, had been staunch pro-choice activists. Imagine if they wrote endless articles about how a fetus is just a collection of cells, and endorsing late-term abortions for any reason. If these plaintiffs had then turned around and said the Church caused the deaths of two fetuses, and that this was murder, wouldn’t you think that was insanely hypocritical? Because they’d have totally reversed their position because it was “sound legal strategy?”
Sound legal strategy? Yes. Hypocritical and repulsive? Double yes.
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“These are the laws we are given, and these are the laws we have to work with for now.”
So the Church should have no problem with abortion, which is legal. Or gay marriage, which is legal in several states and will someday be law of the land. If those are the laws you’re given, then –by your own words– the Church will have to work with them.
Marijuana, too. I almost forgot about that one.
Bronc, so help me God, if your wife ever dumps you, I’m grabbing you by your hair and dragging you to my home to be mine forever.
THE POPE IS NOT GOD NO MATTER HOW MANY DIMWITS TREAT HIM LIKE ONE.
DOWNTHUMB THAT, BITCHES.
I thought legally a fetus was treated as a living being with rights so long as the mother intended to deliver it. I’m pretty sure if you stabbed a pregnant woman in the stomach and both she and the fetus die, you get charged with two counts of murder. I could be wrong and it might be a state by state thing, but that’s the understanding I always operated under.
It’s obviously a very thorny issue, with strong opinions on both sides. The whole thing mostly just makes me sad.