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The Pope forgives abortion,

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 07:04:44 +0000

In reply to Abortion: Taming the Beast?

The Pope forgives abortion, extends the right to forgive - the Catholic Church grows up, embraces a deeper, more humanitarian understanding. As Pope Francis has noted, people ultimately go to God for forgiveness - who is he in the equation, who is he to deny what's God's prerogative? A brilliant, loving man during troubling times. Though I'm sure some are criticizing him for not evolving fast enough on this or that issue.

Here's Hillary tearing a Congressman a new asshole over reproductive rights counseling - but I guess she never had enough of a "message" to rally behind and was just too soft a defender of Planned Parenthood and access to abortion, and used the shaming word "rare" rather than "frequent", so now we get Donald Trump to defend women's right to choose or even to receive unbiased information. He knows how to frame an issue, God bless his little heart.

I think they mostly framed it

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 19 Nov 2016 19:31:50 +0000

In reply to Damn! Right again, Pericles!

I think they mostly framed it as a *partisan* issue than even a freedom issue. The problem there is that our level of tolerance becomes very dependent on who exactly we're tolerating. You can guess how the scale works - pick your desired result and work backwards.

Damn! Right again, Pericles!

CVille Dem — Sat, 19 Nov 2016 19:03:35 +0000

In reply to Abortion: Taming the Beast?

Damn! Right again, Pericles! I heard a nun who was interviewed give a very intelligent and rational talk about the birth control issue. One of the things she mentioned was that abortions decreased dramatically under Obama. Her assumption was that it was due to contraception being easily available, and at no cost because of the ACA. She said that looking at things from the point of reality has made her realize that contraception availability both helped families devote resources to their families, and reduced the abortion numbers.

In states that prohibit sex education and birth control info have a higher incidence of teen pregnancies (of course). But to your point that the Left is is own worst enemy by framing this as a "freedom" issue rather than good sense, and appropriate medical care is just pig-headedness.