Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Search this Thread Display Modes
  #1   Report Post  
posted to rec.boats
external usenet poster
 
First recorded activity by BoatBanter: Nov 2012
Posts: 1,370
Default Sanctity of Life?

Not so much.

You know how the Catholic Church is always going on and on about the
sanctity of life?

And all of this—all of it—goes back to the Church's insistence that
nothing is as valuable as the "life" of an unborn fetus. In just the
past year, the Church has called upon its faithful followers to march,
to starve themselves, to go to jail, to even take up arms—all to protect
those fetuses. No exceptions. None. Not if the fetus is already dead
inside the womb. Not if the fetus is going to kill the actual living
woman carrying it.

Well, except for one: when it's going to cost the Church money.

Turns out, when a man sues a Catholic hospital for malpractice because
his wife and the twins she was carrying inside her died when she turned
up in the emergency room and her doctor never bothered to answer a
page—well, things get a little tricky. Yes, the Catholic hospital
adheres to the strict Ethical and Religious Directives of the Catholic
Church, as set forth by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. And
yes, those directives include the claim that "[t]he Church's defense of
life encompasses the unborn" and a mandate to uphold "the sanctity of
life 'from the moment of conception until death.'" But come on. That
obviously does not apply when Catholic Health Initiatives, the
Church-affiliated organization that runs the Church-affiliated St.
Thomas More Hospital where a young woman and her two unborn fetuses
died, is the lead defendant in a lawsuit:

Instead, they are arguing state law protects doctors from liability
concerning unborn fetuses on grounds that those fetuses are not persons
with legal rights.

As Jason Langley, an attorney with Denver-based Kennedy Childs, argued
in one of the briefs he filed for the defense, the court “should not
overturn the long-standing rule in Colorado that the term ‘person,’ as
is used in the Wrongful Death Act, encompasses only individuals born
alive. Colorado state courts define ‘person’ under the Act to include
only those born alive. Therefore Plaintiffs cannot maintain wrongful
death claims based on two unborn fetuses.”

Praise the lord.
Reply
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search
Display Modes

Posting Rules

Smilies are On
[IMG] code is Off
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
life boats 1 life boats001.jpg [1/2] joevan[_3_] Tall Ship Photos 3 May 29th 09 04:22 PM
life boats 1 life boats001.jpg [2/2] Willem Van der Voort Tall Ship Photos 0 May 28th 09 08:51 PM
Create the life that you want at Your Rich Life melbbr4 ASA 0 July 13th 07 11:57 PM
Life on sea is life. p e n t a g o n |~ ASA 3 May 23rd 07 05:24 AM


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 06:47 PM.

Powered by vBulletin® Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©2004-2024 BoatBanter.com.
The comments are property of their posters.
 

About Us

"It's about Boats"

 

Copyright © 2017