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Thread #136372   Message #3565767
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
10-Oct-13 - 03:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: Christian Persecution
Subject: RE: BS: Christian Persecution
...Following the death of Savita, the Media blamed the fatality of Savita on Ireland's so called ban on abortion in Catholic Hospitlas. However, the third and final National inquiry found that this was not the case. The cause was identified to be medical negligence which led to a series of uncompleted checks and inadequate Procedures.

Nothing is ever black and ehite, apart from penguins, pandas and magpies, but I think that states the position pretty well. Neither Irish law nor church teachings prevented Savita receiving whatever treatment she neededs, even if that meant the termination of the pregnancy.

In the light of the apparent failure of medical staff involved to understand the legal situation appropriate action in making this clearer was seen as appropriate. As might be the position in any country in the face of medical staff failing to understood the law.
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The suggestion that Catholics can be assumed to act in accordance with church teachings just is not true, for good or ill. For example, the fact that the Church is now firmly opposed to capital punishment seems to have very little impact on many American Catholics (though admittedly in the referendum on that in Ireland the death penalty was firmly ruled out as unconstitutional). A similar assumption in the case of Muslims would be recognised as part of the Islamophobic spectrum.