Religious group attacks religion in U.S. healthcare

Reuters via Yahoo! ^ | 04/24/07 | By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor

[Bluestateredman]

What an absolutely bigoted and hateful article. The libs are Gestapo like in their intolerance of Catholics. By any chance is the "priest" in the picture a lesbian?

[ThePythonicCow]

See also the earlier post Religious group attacks religion in U.S. healthcare

[Beckwith]

"And now, to make it worse, the government is codifying these refusals, first through legislation and now with the recent Supreme Court decision, where five Catholic men decided that they could better determine what was moral and good than the physicians, women and families facing difficult, personal choices in problem pregnancies,"

I was under the impression that it has been determined for a number of years that murder was NOT moral and good.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Is the law against murder an incursion of religion into secular government just because “Thou shall not kill” is one of the 10 commandments? It is ridiculous to claim that the ban on partial birth abortion is a ‘religious’ decision. It is a barbaric practice, and I have NEVER heard any legitimate medical justification for it. My faith is central in my life, but my support for this ban is not based on some finite religious principle, but rather on the sensibilities of wanting to do the right things and be a humane human being.

[steve8714]

Episcopal church USA, “humanist “Jews (?), the UCC, Ethical societies, hell, the Scientologists are more of a religion than these.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice is another Soros funded organization.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Smells to me like a George Soros front group.

[Roy Tucker]

where five Catholic men decided that they could better determine what was moral and good than the physicians, women and families facing difficult, personal choices in problem pregnancies,"

That's ironic because 34 years ago 7 men overturned the laws of 33 states opposing abortion and found it to be a right in the Constitution.

Let's go back to the situation ante-1973, seems more democratic to me.

As Joseph Sobran once wrote (and this echoes my sentiments) as to the charge that pro-lifers are trying to impose the teachings of the Catholic Church on non-believers, "The Pope can make abortion a sacrament tomorrow and it would still be wrong."

[driftdiver]

Perhaps we shouldn’t allow people who attend church to vote. after all that fits the true meaning of the separation of state from church.

[Rummenigge]

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[Elsie]

Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice

Today's BAAL worshipers...

[Elsie]

How can we ignore a MILLION deaths a year,

calling it 'CHOICE',

and call 32 dead 'Mass Murder'??

[kittymyrib]

LOL...Imagine that...religious belief is interfering with crushing babies’ skulls and sucking out their brains. What “religious leaders” could possibly be in favor of this barbaric practice?
One thing is sure. These worshipers of death will be separated into the goat herd on Judgment Day.

[wtc911]

The group includes ordained Protestant ministers...

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There are plenty of protestant Freepers who dump on Catholics every chance they get.

On a tangental note....yesterday at the Post Office I saw Jehovah Witness style booklets placed on the counters that were titled..."Exploring the Koran".

I threw them out.

[Vanders9]

Five JUDGES decided what should be done. What this council carefully ignore is that THEY are deciding in exactly the same way.

[Labyrinthos]

"Doctors, pharmacists and nurses are also increasingly exercising a so-called 'religious or moral objection,' refusing to provide essential services and often leaving patients without other options," the group said in a statement.

Seems to me that these doctors, pharmacists, and nurses are pro-choice in that they have voluntarily chosen life over death. Once again, this demonstrates that pro-choice really means pro-abortion, because any other choice, except abortion, is unacceptable.

[Brilliant]

“The group includes ordained Protestant ministers, a Jewish activist, an expert on women’s reproductive rights and several physicians.”

i.e., another phony religious group—liberal activists masquerading as believers to get the attention of the media.

[Polybius]

They said last week's Supreme Court decision outlawing a certain type of abortion demonstrated that religious belief was interfering with personal rights and the U.S. health care system in general.

Partial birth abortion has absolutely no medical value as a procedure and actually increases the risk to the mother.

If the ultimate goal is to kill the unborn child, then, from a purely medical point of view, the safest procedure for the mother would be to deliver the child in one piece without all the unnecessary instrumentation inside the mother and then simply kill the child after it is born.

It is the abortionists that are mixing medicine with other issues.

[Gil4]

RE: Five JUDGES decided what should be done.

My understanding was the majority of the elected officials decided what should (not) be done, and five judges decided not to overrule the will of the people as expressed by their representatives.

[Lord Basil]

So, coalition of “religious” leaders, what part of piercing the baby’s skull, sucking out the baby’s brain, and crushing the baby’s skull do you like best?