[allendale]

Obama has the stench of rotting aborted humans clinging to him. He brought that stench with him to Notre Dame and a foul odor now permeates that former Catholic institution.

[mkmensinger]

To Notre Dame Professor: Maybe yo mamma should have thought about adortion.

[2banana]

According to Governor Cuomo - the Pope is not welcomed in New York State...

[windsorknot]

Maybe the Pope should rethink the “Catholic” status of Notre Dame.

[TigersEye]

Other exceptions to the condemnation of abortion arise once we realize that an early-stage embryo may be biologically human but still lack the main features — consciousness, self-awareness, an interest in the future — that underlie most moral considerations.

Not according to the Vedas which were written by people who could see the
process directly. Consciousness, sperm and egg all join at the same moment.

It is a speshul kind of insane to think that all of the biological components of
life exist apart from consciousness which only exists because of awareness.

[Hoodat]

Notre Dame professor: Hey, maybe the Pope should rethink abortion

Hey professor, maybe you should rethink being Catholic.

[sten]

Notre Dame should rethink allowing their students to be exposed to this whack job

[reg45]

Perhaps, The University of Notre Dame should reconsider who it hires as professors.

[Red in Blue PA]

That professor needs to be canned......yesterday.

Absolutely no excuse for Notre Dame allowing him to remain.

[RichInOC]

Delightful fellow. Equally delightful name. They both sound like a character out of Lewis’ space trilogy. You know, one of the evil researchers.

[onyx]

Gary Gutting, Notre Dame, idiot.

[tioga]

Maybe a certain Notre Dame professor should find another university.

[amihow]

Idiots. The loss of an unborn through spontaneous or induced abortion is a loss to be grieved. BUT the Ph.D idiot does not fathom the fact that the Church is concerned with the hearts and souls of those who procure an abortion in the cases of induced ones. The babies are with theur maker. The abortionist and often the mother and her encouragers are hardening their own hearts.

[Raycpa]

The analogy of rape to someone kidnapped to keep another alive fails because the rape is a one time crime and the kidnapped is a crime that continues for 9 months.

[BlessedBeGod]

The Ignatius Bible is a Jesuit version.

The Ignatius Bible is not a "Jesuit version." It's called "The Ignatius Bible" because it's published by Ignatius Press. There's no "Jesuit spin."

[campaignPete R-CT]

An organism may be human by purely biological criteria, but still merely potentially human in the full moral sense

Notre Dame philosophy professor Gary Gutting may be human by purely biological criteria, but still merely potentially human in the full moral sense

[NYer]

Catholic ping!

[Cronos]

“rethink baby killing”? no. Not possible

[Cronos]

At the same time, the “inviolable value of each human life” does not imply that no abortion can be moral. Here the case of rape is especially relevant. It is hard to claim that a rape victim has a moral duty to bring to term a pregnancy forced on her by rape,

This is a traditional red-herring put forth by proponents of baby-killing.

I refute them with the statistics about Poland -- Poland until the 90s allowed pretty liberal abortion, but then reduced it to allowing abortion only for:

1. rape
2. incest
3. mother's life or health
4. foetus life

And how many abortions does it have a year? about 840. That's in a nation 1/10th the size of the US

By that reckoning, if the US allowed only abortions for the above cases, then there would be only 8400 abortions a year. Even if we assume a 100% increase for the US, that should be max 17,000 abortions a year.

In contrast, the US had a million abortions a year....

So the rape, incest etc. accounts for only about 1% or 1.7% of the abortions. The rest are just as "don't want baby"