Seamless Garment in Action | National Catholic Reporter

Seamless Garment in Action | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: That is the real meaning of being pro-life - although I am not sure what the issue of abortion has to do with the legal brief in this case.  I am glad this came to a happy ending - although the equal protection claus and the ban on cruel and unusual punishment seem adequate and probably carried the day.  In the larger issue, the pro-life concerns are justified.  Imagine if she were only two months pregnant and the judge ordered the pregnancy to be terminated?  While this is not likely in deeply red Tennessee, I would not put such sentiments beyond the scope of some judges or anti-immigrant states.  It is not much of a leap from mandatory Norplant use by welfare mothers - which has been done - or the sterilization of mental patients and criminals - which is part of our past and the real impetus for the modern Church teaching on birth control.  Oddly, this respect for reproductive freedom in Catholic doctrine seems to have been abandonned under the banner of regulating our sex lives and protecting blastocysts who have not yet attained individuality.