Both sides, now
By Capt. Fogg
No, this isn't about Joni Mitchell and I'm not going to talk about bows and flows of angel hair, just about stunning hypocrisy. How many ice cream castles have been built upon the idea that a fertilized human egg cell is a human being possessed of human rights? It would be hypocritical enow that those rights are allowed by Church doctrine to foetuses when they have been so often denied to adults by religious authorities, but that's not what this is about. It's about, as I said, hypocrisy; about arguing both sides when needed to avoid guilt, or at least to avoid prosecution and penalty.
Catholic Health Initiatives, with assets estimated at around 15 billion dollars, operates a chain of hospitals and as a response to a wrongful death suit involving twin foetuses who died before birth, their attorneys argued that in cases of wrongful death, the term “person” only applies to individuals born alive, and not to those who die in utero, says Raw Story today.
Perhaps that will be a precedent that plagues them in future when they try to argue otherwise according to Roman Catholic doctrine regarding abortion and birth control, but looking at this cloudy argument from both sides now is pretty entertaining, don't you think? And of course we remember all the adages telling us that when they argue principle, what they mean is money.
Feather canyons everywhere, indeed.
(Cross posted from Human Voices)
No, this isn't about Joni Mitchell and I'm not going to talk about bows and flows of angel hair, just about stunning hypocrisy. How many ice cream castles have been built upon the idea that a fertilized human egg cell is a human being possessed of human rights? It would be hypocritical enow that those rights are allowed by Church doctrine to foetuses when they have been so often denied to adults by religious authorities, but that's not what this is about. It's about, as I said, hypocrisy; about arguing both sides when needed to avoid guilt, or at least to avoid prosecution and penalty.
Catholic Health Initiatives, with assets estimated at around 15 billion dollars, operates a chain of hospitals and as a response to a wrongful death suit involving twin foetuses who died before birth, their attorneys argued that in cases of wrongful death, the term “person” only applies to individuals born alive, and not to those who die in utero, says Raw Story today.
Perhaps that will be a precedent that plagues them in future when they try to argue otherwise according to Roman Catholic doctrine regarding abortion and birth control, but looking at this cloudy argument from both sides now is pretty entertaining, don't you think? And of course we remember all the adages telling us that when they argue principle, what they mean is money.
Feather canyons everywhere, indeed.
(Cross posted from Human Voices)
Labels: abortion, human rights, Roman Catholic Church
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