Links for 07/14/15 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: The right to die movement will never win a majority, but it should not have to. It will be recognized as privacy right that legislators have no business delving into. Numbers don't matter in a discussion of rights or morality. Of course, the extent to which the Church believes in God the Ogre will determine how much pressure Trads will exert about this issue, although the Modernists will win in the end (and be the Trads of mid-century). If you take out the core belief that God is the only one who decides when someone dies and attempts to hurry the process are an insult to his dignity - or the the Natural Order, or the Magisterium - its all the same thing and remember that morality is for humans to live their lives on earth in the best possible way - for their sakes, not God's - then the Modernists will have won. Its inevitable.
Bravo to Lauren Green. Her story is why Downs children should never be aborted. It is also a caution, however, that when they are born they should be given every supportive service (and their parents) and every opportunity. Its easier to do that in the UK than here, where the neo-liberals would have her and her parents be on their own (even if they also dislike aborting people like her).
It is good that a deal has been reached with Iran and that the sanctions which hurt the Iranian people more than the mullahs and the military are coming off. There was never any danger to Israel. Wiping out the Israeli Jews would have also wiped out the Israeli Arabs and those of surrounding nations (although the mountains in the west would have collected any fall-out headed toward Iran. Of course, the mountains would not stop American nuclear weapons, so there was no doubt how this was going to end - only how much Netanyahu would bark at it or how long. Now its is time for the Republican Klown Kart Klub to make noise, but that will be short lived - their attention spans are not long.
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