Oh, Catholics, you delightfully hypocritical fucks.

[Napoléon]

To argue that a 7-month old foetus is not a child is reprehensible.

Aim that at both the government with the stupid law and the Catholic organisation for freely going along with it then.

[fr0d0]

To argue that a 7-month old foetus is not a child is reprehensible.

The legal definition is 'person'.

[Violet]

7 months pregnant? By ANYONE'S standard the foetus is a child, human being, alive. The thought of abortions in the 3rd trimester will turn the stomach of any pro-choice-abortionist.

To argue that a 7-month old foetus is not a child is reprehensible.

Not my standard. Its status as 'human' is irrelevant: it is not a person (or rather: it has less personality than the average adult lizard). If you can kill an adult lizard, you can kill a 7-months prego baby.

But I agree... waiting so long is ridiculous if it wasn't forced upon you, and such being done was ridiculous on whoever did it. Not reprehensible: ridiculous.

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To argue that a 7-month old foetus is not a child is reprehensible.

The legal definition is 'person'.

Depends on where you are. Some places don't count them as people until they draw their first breath. Others have them as people when they're a bloody egg.

[Minimalist]

I haven't read the other replies, just throwing in my 2c.

7 months pregnant? By ANYONE'S standard the foetus is a child, human being, alive. The thought of abortions in the 3rd trimester will turn the stomach of any pro-choice-abortionist.

To argue that a 7-month old foetus is not a child is reprehensible.

Actually you have a point. Much of the cause of the suit is that they failed to do a C-section which may have saved the lives of the babies. While small they would have been viable...to one extent or another.

They were negligent and are trying to get off the hook.

[Justtristo]

Presumably to get around that one, they played the "he that hath his stones broken" (among many other things) may not "go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries" card. Gotta catch 'em all!

The Catholic Church could have claimed as part of the tradition which was taught by Jesus and passed down by the Apostles. Because Acts 1:1-3 basically gives the Church a blank cheque and credit all sorts of things to teachings Jesus gave to the Apostles which werent written down until later.

The first account I composed, Theophilus, about all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when He was taken up to heaven, after He had by the Holy Spirit given orders to the apostles whom He had chosen. To these He also presented Himself alive after His suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God.

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