Maria Kraw, new President of Toronto Catholic Doctors Guild is opposed to contraception. Who would’ve guessed?
“Maria Kraw, new President of Toronto Catholic Doctors Guild is opposed to contraception. Who would’ve guessed?”
Yes, and who would have guessed that the medical establishment that pushed the pill on women and brushed aside all the evidence of serious side-effects for the overriding benefit of birth control were, “pro-contraception.”
Do you know how to assess evidence rationally? If Dr. Kraw is anti-contraception because of the evidence of deleterious side-effects, then she’s simply stating a professional assessment. If she’s anti-contraception before and apart from the evidence,then she’s prejudiced. But how do you know which came first?
Or did you really mean to say that because she was identified as head of a Catholic physicians’ group, she only holds her professional assessment of negative side-effects out of religious prejudice? But you don’t have any way to know how she came to these conclusions.
Therefore, your insinuation that her medical opinions don’t carry weight because she is opposed to contraception is itself a good example of bigotry, of elevating the one fact you do know about her (that she’s Catholic) over all other factors.
That, by any rational measure, looks very much like an exercise in bigotry on your part. Of course, perhaps you did find out all the details about Dr. Kraw’s life history you would need to know in order to make the insinuation you made. Perhaps.