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Thread #159128 Message #3772155
Posted By: Joe Offer
12-Feb-16 - 02:57 AM
Thread Name: BS: Zika vs anti-abortion cults
Subject: RE: BS: Zika vs anti-abortion cults
The information about the manual for new bishops comes from John Allen, who has reported on Vatican matters for a long, long time. I've heard Allen speak several times. I find his tone a bit cynical, but what he says is very, very credible. Note that Allen explains that the Rome-based Gregorian University's Centre for Child Protection is giving different advice. John Allen knows his stuff.
Peter Laban linked to an article from The Guardian titled Concern grows at Catholic church's silence over Zika virus crisis. Articles from the Guardian have been mentioned throughout this thread. The oft-stated position of the Guardian is that abortion is the solution to the Zika virus epidemic, and that the Catholic Church is wrong because it fails to sanction abortion as a solution for birth defects. The Vatican has expressed concern about the Zika virus [click], but it does not propose abortion as a solution to the problem.
Is it a good thing to abort babies with birth defects? The Catholic Church says it isn't, and I think it has a right to express that opinion - despite what the Guardian says. Others say it is, and I think they, too, have a right to express their opinion.
These differing opinions serve to present both sides of the issue, and then it should be up to the pregnant woman to decide what to do.
-Joe-
P.S. And Musket, I still don't understand your reference to prosecution.