Vile, vile, vile | National Catholic Reporter

Vile, vile, vile | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: The former Speaker does misremember what we were all taught in Ethics about whether the unborn deserve protection.  She is incorrect when stating that if there is doubt, you can abort.  The teaching is that if there is no doubt that a child is not a life, you can abort or contracept.  Since I have no doubt that life begins at gastruatlon, I can prevent pregnancy before that point.  Still, how we fight abortion is a prudential decision.  90% of abortions happen in the first trimester - but giving first trimester embryos federal protection (states cannot change the terms of personhood under the 14th Amendment - they have abused that power in the past and continue to on immigration) is problematic at best because doing so makes every miscarriage a public event subject both to criminal investigation and tort relief - forcing doctors to not see first trimester patients.  This puts more women and children at risk than allowing abortion.  Case closed.