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Would this prevent a Catholic lawyer from defending Dr. Gosnell? If not, is there a difference between a lawyer representing a client and a politician representing his constituents?


9 posted on 05/07/2013 2:55:29 PM PDT by ex-snook (God is Love)
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To: ex-snook

A lawyer has a responsibility to secure the best interests of his or her client. Furthermore, the scope is limited to a particular case or set of cases.


15 posted on 05/07/2013 3:35:44 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: ex-snook
Would this prevent a Catholic lawyer from defending Dr. Gosnell? If not, is there a difference between a lawyer representing a client and a politician representing his constituents?

A politician who votes to legalize, expand, promote, or especially fund abortion, has gone beyond the actions analogous to "representing a client." Such acts are cooperation in the act of abortion itself: the active promotion of an evil. The politician's acts make his an accessory or accomplice.

A more accurate analogy would be, if Gosnell's lawyer said "Yes he did kill all those babies after 24 weeks, and yes he did kill newborns by, effectively, decapitating them: and I say that's all right, I say that's justified, I'm going to try to make this more widespread, and I paid him to do it."

26 posted on 05/08/2013 4:40:44 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Dies irae, Dies illa, / Solvet saeclum in favilla / Teste David et Sybilla.)
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