Posted on 06/30/2021 7:28:56 PM PDT by bitt
Author and historian Garry Wills is accusing the Catholic Church of being wishy-washy on abortion. Instead, he says, those who stubbornly advocate for life belong to a “cult of the fetus.” His words are misleading – at best. Here’s why.
On June 27, the New York Times published an opinion piece claiming, “The Bishops Are Wrong About Biden — and Abortion.” Wills, an emeritus history professor at Northwestern and the author of numerous books (including one called “Why I Am a Catholic”), took the opportunity to criticize Catholics and evangelicals who recognize abortion as the “worst crime a society can commit.” That’s because, he appeared to argue, the early Church didn’t outright condemn abortion. And yet, had he spared five minutes to look up Church teaching on abortion, he would have found otherwise.
Pro-lifers “have determined that a fetus is a person and abortion is therefore murder,” Wills began. “This is a crime of such magnitude that some Catholic bishops are trying to deny the reception of Holy Communion by the president of the United States for not working to prevent it.”
But here started Wills’ slew of mistaken assumptions: Catholics aren’t so much criticizing President Biden for “not preventing” abortion as they are challenging him for actively promoting it – and supporting the use of taxpayer dollars to fund it.
Wills appeared to mock the pro-life position, saying that those who identify as “pro-life” consider “any form of human life” as “sacred.”
“But my clipped fingernails or trimmed hairs are human life,” he appeared to taunt. “They are not canine hair.”
This “cult of the fetus” has traveled “even farther down the path of nonsense,” he claimed.
“This cult, which began as far back as the 1950s, led to debate over whether, in a pregnancy crisis, the
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“Cult of the Fetus” is better than the Cult of Death. Has the author forgotten that they were once a Fetus?
The opinion of a mere journalist has as much meaning as that of a slime mold.
If the process of partial birth abortion involves holding the "fetus'" arms and legs still while you do the evil deed, perhaps it's long past time to start calling her a baby.
Hey Katie!
Whutz yer middlin name?
Yeah, so everyone will know you are a serial murderer...
‘Cult of the fetus’? More like the ‘cult of LIFE’, as opposed to the author’s ‘cult of death’.
To these people, a fully formed baby at nine months which has not been born is fair game for slaughter.
They can somehow rationalize that because it has not transited the birth canal, it is not a human being.
For people like that, rationalizing that their enemies are not human beings and thus deserving of the same fate as a 9 month old unborn baby is not a reach for them.
He says it as though that’s a bad thing to believe in.
Slime molds are beautiful creatures. Please don’t insult them in an effort to “slime the NY slime.” Thank you.
https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/slime-molds-6599/
But I know it's been used before in the media. I'm certain of it.
Well Katie, when you have your abortion will you have the guts to sign a medical document confirming your request to willingly and knowingly murder the child growing in your womb?
It speaks volumes that Libs go crazy over any possible discovery of Microbes on any celestial body outside Earth and call it a Discovery of Life! But, a human fetus which is a developing human being in a human woman’s womb is not considered to be life by those same Libs. This level of hypocrisy and ignorance cannot be reconciled by anything resembling rational thought.
Those ghouls who can slaughter their own flesh and blood without remorse could more aptly be described as cultists.
People are giving Katie Yoder a pretty rough time here, but reading some of the article — the first sentence, in fact — will show that she is writing about what Garry Wills said.
BTTT!!!
My fingernails don’t have a heartbeat.
What a Maroon. His Mother chose poorly.
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