Links for 03/24/15 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: The Poliico piece is essentailly an editorial - and EMILY's list is not mentioned, The issues mentioned are not new - restricting private funding given to Community Health Centers (in violation of the agreement that no new abortion resrictions woul be added - and the medical charities fund is not federal money and is not covered. I wrote about the Human Trafficking bill last week - which is about a fight between the bishops and HHS over the need for abortion referrals when a woman has been raped while trafficked and has become pregnant. If you argue that trafficked women cannot consent, even if they cmply, then the rape exception must always be triggered - religious freedom protections or not.
The statement of Micheael C. Culhane is one of those rare slips of the tongue that reveal what the Church is really thinking. They are caring more for their reputation for doctrinal consistency than addressing the question of whether Thomas More was right on Euthanasia. The statement comes close, and I think it implies, the belief that only God can end a life, not man. Of course, that God is an ogre.
It is sad that a Smithsonian exhibit on climate change had to be toned down because the donor is a Koch. Better to fund with tax money (although right now the majority in Congess is Koch fundned too. Of course, Climateprogress is not exactly an objective news source either.
My cousin does work with rape victims in Iowa City; I defer to her decades of experience on this, but I will mention that the biggest part of rape culture on college campuses is alcohol, which is what our great-grandmother, a leader in the temperance movement, was all about.
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