Maguire drew on St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas who both thought that to allow certain moral evils would prevent greater evils. He further cited Aquinas, who said that the wise legislator imitates God, who tolerates certain evils lest greater evils ensue.
The letter continued, Similarly, today legislators who truly think abortion immoral could vote to keep it legal since greater evils, multiple deaths of women (especially poor women) from botched abortions as seen before Roe v. Wade, would follow.
3500 murders a day IS NOT the "lesser of two evils"!
1 posted on
06/29/2007 3:35:21 PM PDT by
wagglebee
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To: wagglebee
McGuire is an old man who left the priesthood and still
wants to control peoples lives. I thought he most probably was dead by now.
30 posted on
06/29/2007 6:06:25 PM PDT by
Renatus
To: wagglebee
Daniel C. Maguire is a 24K POS. An ex-priest, who married Marjorie Reiley while she was a grad student at Catholic University, claims he can find a woman's right to abort her baby in Scripture. Those two wrote Abortion: A Guide to Making Ethical Choices for Frank Kissling and the anti-Catholic CFFC back in 1983.
![](http://www.religiousconsultation.org/library/Dan_Maguire_at_175.jpg)
Their particular judgments, along with those phonies at Marquette who enabled them, will be interesting to say the least.
To: wagglebee
“Orders, eh? Who does he think he is?”
32 posted on
06/29/2007 6:46:54 PM PDT by
bt_dooftlook
(Democrats - the "No Child/Left/Behind" Party)
To: wagglebee
Professor Maguire has no business teaching at a Catholic university and advising the Bishops on matters of faith. It is the duty of a Catholic university professor to teach the Catholic faith, not what he would like it to be. It sounds like he would fit in better with a liberal Church like the Metropolitan Community Church.
33 posted on
06/29/2007 6:49:37 PM PDT by
Pinkbell
(I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order. - Mike Pence)
To: wagglebee
Is there a webcam at Marquette where we can see the puff of white smoke?
34 posted on
06/29/2007 7:08:44 PM PDT by
NonValueAdded
(Brian J. Marotta, 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub, (1948-2007) Rest In Peace, our FRiend)
To: wagglebee
Ya gotta be kidding me:
The letter continued, Similarly, today legislators who truly think abortion immoral could vote to keep it legal since greater evils, multiple deaths of women (especially poor women) from botched abortions as seen before Roe v. Wade, would follow.
The mythical thousands versus the factual millions, to say nothing of the psychological and spiritual carnage women and men suffer post-"choice"...
And this so called Catholic is teaching.
36 posted on
06/29/2007 7:17:14 PM PDT by
grellis
(Femininists for Fred!)
To: wagglebee
If irresponsible sex had more consequences, there’d be less irresponsible sex.
Hey ‘teach’, got any stats on the number of women who died in any given year, from botched abortions?
Nah?.....Didn’t think so!
37 posted on
06/29/2007 7:21:15 PM PDT by
G Larry
(Only strict constructionists on the Supreme Court!)
To: 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; afraidfortherepublic; Alas; al_c; american colleen; annalex; ...
what he's tyring to say is that it's moral to vote for a pro-abortion democrat and immoral to vote for the pro-life republican as a republican might vote to lower an entitlement appropriation or expect people to take care of themselves and be more responsible.
archbishop myers talks about proportionalism here in this thread, pro life is first while everything else is secondary.
Veritatis splendor
116.
A particular responsibility is incumbent upon Bishops with regard to
Catholic institutions. Whether these are agencies for the pastoral care of the family or for social work, or institutions dedicated to
teaching or health care, Bishops can canonically erect and recognize these structures and delegate certain responsibilities to them. Nevertheless,
Bishops are never relieved of their own personal obligations. It falls to them, in communion with the Holy See, both to grant the title "Catholic" to Church-related schools,
179 universities,
180 health-care facilities and counselling services, and, in cases of a serious failure to live up to that title, to take it away.
179. Cf.
Code of Canon Law, Canon 803, 3.
180. Cf.
Code of Canon Law, Canon 808.
also
Ex Corde Ecclesia? Catholic members of the university community are also called to a personal fidelity to the Church with all that this implies. Non-Catholic members are required to respect the Catholic character of the University, while the University in turn respects their religious liberty
38 posted on
06/29/2007 9:12:22 PM PDT by
Coleus
(Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, insects)
To: wagglebee
39 posted on
06/29/2007 9:45:26 PM PDT by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: wagglebee
Kennedy is probably on that list.
40 posted on
06/29/2007 9:46:46 PM PDT by
television is just wrong
(Amnesty is when you allow them to return to their country of origin without prosecution.take the get)
To: wagglebee
According to Dr. Nathanson, there were deaths from botched abortions in the “old days.” He saw them as a young doctor. But when he founded NARAL, and they needed a statistic on deaths from “back-alley abortions,” they just made one up: 5000 per year. The real figure was somewhere in the neighborhood of 100, at most. And that’s for the entire U.S., in the bad old days of illegal abortion.
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