Posted on 06/13/2017 7:07:20 AM PDT by marshmallow
Nigel Biggar has said: 'It’s not clear that a human foetus is the same kind of thing as an adult'
Pope Francis has appointed 45 new ordinary members of the Pontifical Academy for Life, according to a statement on the Vatican website. They include Nigel Biggar, who has said that he thinks the limit for legal abortion should be 18 weeks.
In a dialogue with fellow philosopher Peter Singer in 2011, reported by Standpoint magazine, Biggar said: “I would be inclined to draw the line for abortion at 18 weeks after conception, which is roughly about the earliest time when there is some evidence of brain activity, and therefore of consciousness. In terms of maintaining a strong social commitment to preserving human life in hindered forms, and in terms of not becoming too casual about killing human life, we need to draw the line much more conservatively.”
He said: “It’s not clear that a human foetus is the same kind of thing as an adult or a mature human being, and therefore deserves quite the same treatment. It then becomes a question of where we draw the line, and there is no absolutely cogent reason for drawing it in one place over another.”
Biggar, the Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford, has opposed the legalisation of assisted suicide, saying that its proponents are “naive”, and that changing the law “would give us a radically libertarian society at the cost of a socially humane one”. His book In Defence of War criticises pacifism, and argues that the 2003 invasion of Iraq met the criteria for a just war.
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**Philosopher Who Backs Legal Abortion Appointed to Vatican Pro-Life Academy**
This doesn’t make sense.
It makes perfect sense. Bergoglio hates the Catholic Church. He surrounds himself with others who hate the Catholic Church.
Arthur McGowan wrote:
It makes perfect sense. Bergoglio hates the Catholic Church. He surrounds himself with others who hate the Catholic Church.
I’m inclined to agree, as absurd as it appears to be...
And the world continues to go mad...
Bergoglio still has time to appoint Emma Bonino to the Academy.
I just read a “debunking” of criticism of Bergoglio by a katholyk. He trotted out many “traditional” statements from Bergoglio, and pointed to his “peasant” piety.
He totally ignored the rampant sodomy in the Vatican, and the countless pro-abortion, sodomite associates of Bergoglio, like Paglia.
The next Pope must depose hundreds of bishops around the world—starting with most of Bergoglio’s appointees.
I am not the least bit confident that he won’t.
This is what happens when the Right to Life is treated as anything other than the first priority of Christians.
Francis needs to retire.
Bring back Benedict.
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