'It was morally wrong': Catholic hospital apologizes for arguing that a fetus is not a human.

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xpost from GD

It was a startling assertion that seemed an about-face from church doctrine: A Catholic hospital arguing in a Colorado court that twin fetuses that died in its care were not, under state law, human beings.

When the two-year-old court filing surfaced last month, it triggered an avalanche of criticism — because the legal argument seemed to plainly clash with the church's centuries-old stance that life begins at conception.

But it is also now fueling an already raging debate in Colorado and beyond about whether fetuses should have legal rights and, if so, what kind.

On Monday, the hospital and the state's bishops released a statement acknowledging it was 'morally wrong' to make the legal argument.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2273557/It-morally-wrong-Catholic-hospital-apologizes-arguing-court-fetus-human-being.html#ixzz2K4uPrt6Z

Oh, yeah, it was wrong all right.

Just more moral failings from the Catholic church. Like the child-raping priests it protects and enables, hypocrisy is fine when money and responsibility is involved.

[trotsky]

1. Ha ha. Bastards got their massive hypocrisy exposed and had to backtrack.

Mocking religious hypocrisy DOES work.

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2. It makes little difference, trotsky. It's all about the money. Nothing more, nothing less.

They don't want to pay for their mistake, so their "deeply held religious beliefs" go right out the fucking window when it's convenient.

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3. But, but...

they're morally superior to everyone else and have the right to lecture us all on morality, and pressure secular governments on public policy matters to reflect Catholic dogma, don't they?!?

(Just don't ask about the child-raping priests, please!)

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4. ANYTHING but the child-raping priests!

[rug]

5. You must have missed the prior discussions.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1218&pid=65060

http://www.democraticunderground.com/121865365

You do realize that the lawyers arguing for the hospita are not the bishops, don't you. Probably not.

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6. You must have missed that this is a new story about the church's response to their lawyers arguments

Nice try, but fail.

Now go and have yourself a really nice day.

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7. I didn't.

And it's consistent with what they've said all along, whether or not you agree with it.