Should Church control access to health care? [WaPo]

[1holycatholic]

Should Church control access to health care?…
The St. Joseph’s story is, sadly, unsurprising. As human rights lawyers who work around the globe, we repeatedly confront the tragic consequences of the Catholic Church’s sustained hostility to reproductive health services when it imposes its theology on public policy and the provision of health services to the public. In countries where the Church wields considerable power, the repercussions for women’s lives are palpable.
…IMHO she’s no human rights lawyer. If she were, she would defend the right to life of innocent human beings. Instead she advocates the intentional killing of innocent human beings.

 

[manualman]

Abortion, by definition, is not health care and neither is contraception.

Health care, properly defined, has as its goal the maintenance and repair of bodily systems to their properly functioning conditions. Whatever your view of contraception or abortion, you must admit it is NOT health care. On the contrary, BOTH involve the deliberate infliction of a malfunction into a properly functioning bodily system.

In a sane world, both would be considered malpractice.

 

[JohnDamian]

IMHO she’s no human rights lawyer. If she were, she would defend the right to life of innocent human beings. Instead she advocates the intentional killing of innocent human beings.

Absolutely, we could turn her absurd and ridiculous claim right around;

As Catholics who work around the globe, we repeatedly confront the tragic conseuqnces of purported “human rights” lawyers, who’s sustained hostility to unborn children extends even to depriving them of a right to life. The consequences when such people impose their arbitrary and baseless “moral” codes onto public life is abominable, in countries where such hypocrites wield considerable power; the repercussions on the unborn, on the family, and on society in general are not only palpable, but abominable.

 

[AnotherVoice]

Absolutely, we could turn her absurd and ridiculous claim right around;

As Catholics who work around the globe, we repeatedly confront the tragic conseuqnces of purported “human rights” lawyers, who’s sustained hostility to unborn children extends even to depriving them of a right to life. The consequences when such people impose their arbitrary and baseless “moral” codes onto public life is abominable, in countries where such hypocrites wield considerable power; the repercussions on the unborn, on the family, and on society in general are not only palpable, but abominable.

Nicely put and very accurate.

 

[timotheos]

In Kenya, for example, Catholic leaders are currently threatening to scuttle the adoption of a new constitution-widely seen as critical to *ending political bloodshed *(italics mine) there-because it contains a clause on abortion.

Ending bloodshed??? ENDING BLOODSHED??? How dark the darkness is!!!

-Tim