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Links for 05/16/15 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: The twenty week Pain Capable abortion bill should never pass and paid family leave is yet another instance of helping people until they are born, although adding a few months is a nice gesture in the right direction.  Late term abortions after twenty weeks do show a stimulus response to those nasty procedures used to kill the child - but that calls more for inducing labor at whatever point and letting the child die a natural death - or providing pain relief to the fetus.  In most cases, such abortions are medically indicated, with the notable exception of Downs children.  But if you want to save the Downs babies, ramp up the support from the Church in helping raise them, even the most profoundly disabled - and do with before any government contract is let to fund it.  I think the term is pay up or shut up.



Thavis is on the right track, but as I said in another post, the sheep should have been the ones to recieve the resignation (not just the clergy) and then select the replacement from the local clergy, who would nominate candidates to vote on.  Until that happens, everything we have been saying about solidarity is a lie.



I read the Polico piece as I was having lunch with my fellow homeless people yesterday.  As I understand it, they were trying to get a new vote today. Of coures, compromise after compormise guts the advantage of fast track, as all the possible amendments will now probably be considered as part of the authorization to vote without amendments.  Surreal.