RE: Abortion-Killing: The Silent Genocide: 2 Billion Deaths Victims Worldwide.
July 12, 2023 at 6:44 pm
(This post was last modified: July 12, 2023 at 6:56 pm by Bucky Ball.)
No one has the an absolute right to anything. ((See Conservative Catholic) Justice Antonin Scalia's interview with Piers Morgan)), where he also said ... basically gave away the store ... "we have a right to what is *reasonable*. That includes "life". There is no absolute right to life. In US (and most other countries) the government can require one to give up their life in an emergency (war) context. The right to life is not absolute.
One's rights are dependent on the situation in which they live, and for an embryo / fetus that includes the situation of the mother. The picture is never just about a fetus and a mom. The mother has responsibilities with respect to the rights of her children, her husband her job, her wider family (... what if her parents need her for their care ?) Do the rights of ALL the others outweigh the (possible) rights of a blob of undifferentiated cells ? The woman has to decide ... and the right to decide she HAS, according to the Roman Catholic Church.
The Catechism of the Roman Church :
1782 Man has the right to act in conscience and in freedom so as personally to make moral decisions. "He must not be forced to act contrary to his conscience. Nor must he be prevented from acting according to his conscience, especially in religious matters."
The Church, (Catholic women) universally use birth control (99 %), and get abortions (24 %). The people are the church. Not the hierarchy.
https://www.guttmacher.org/article/2020/...GpEALw_wcB
Catholic women do not look to the hierarchy for moral guidance any more, (if ever).
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...tion%20and
If a woman, weighing the rights and obligations of ALL of those she has responsibilities with, decides that her honest conscience demands she terminate a pregnancy,
the RCC agrees she has a right to make that decision.
YOU do not know what is in her conscience.
YOU have no right to judge anyone.
One's rights are dependent on the situation in which they live, and for an embryo / fetus that includes the situation of the mother. The picture is never just about a fetus and a mom. The mother has responsibilities with respect to the rights of her children, her husband her job, her wider family (... what if her parents need her for their care ?) Do the rights of ALL the others outweigh the (possible) rights of a blob of undifferentiated cells ? The woman has to decide ... and the right to decide she HAS, according to the Roman Catholic Church.
The Catechism of the Roman Church :
1782 Man has the right to act in conscience and in freedom so as personally to make moral decisions. "He must not be forced to act contrary to his conscience. Nor must he be prevented from acting according to his conscience, especially in religious matters."
The Church, (Catholic women) universally use birth control (99 %), and get abortions (24 %). The people are the church. Not the hierarchy.
https://www.guttmacher.org/article/2020/...GpEALw_wcB
Catholic women do not look to the hierarchy for moral guidance any more, (if ever).
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...tion%20and
If a woman, weighing the rights and obligations of ALL of those she has responsibilities with, decides that her honest conscience demands she terminate a pregnancy,
the RCC agrees she has a right to make that decision.
YOU do not know what is in her conscience.
YOU have no right to judge anyone.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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