[jas3]

I can think of no worse authority on science than the Catholic Church.

Do you accept the Catholic Church's authority on infanticide?

Immediately after the Emperor Constantine's conversion he enacted two laws (about A. D. 320) directed against child-murder

No. I don't accept that infanticide is wrong because the Catholic Church has deemed it so. Infanticide is wrong, but for reasons other than the current position of the Catholic Church.

I also have been eating meat on Fridays since well before the Catholic Church decided it was no longer sinful for me to do so.

jas3

[syriacus]

Infanticide is wrong, but for reasons other than the current position of the Catholic Church.

Exactly.

We don't need to include churches' opinions in this discussion. Some churches believe killing the smallest human beings is okay, some don't think it is okay. So let's leave churches out of this.

Of course, we have to remember that

Logically speaking,
one side is really incorrect

because the two contradictory positions cannot both be correct at the same time.

As I said, some churches think abortion is a-ok. Would you dismiss a "pro-choice" statement merely because it came from some church?

I'm not against abortion because of what the Catholic Church says, either.

I'm against abortion because it is ridiculous to say a being is a "non-human" being (or non-person) at one point and say that that same being is a "human" being (or person) at another point.

Logically speaking, the being is the same being at every point from after fertilization until death.

I would be against abortion, whether a church told me it was wrong, or not.

I'm finding the Catholic Church more and more attractive, because it defends the weak and because it is against abortion.

The Catholic Church happens to be right about many "life and death" decisions. (And actually led the way in ending infanticide).