Links for 07/23/15 | National Catholic Reporter

Links for 07/23/15 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: The heart of the deal is the west backing out of sanctions that were abusive anyway, letting us save face by turning over old equipment and letting Israel know that we can read a map and know where the fall out would go for any weapon launched from Iran.



There are no buttons for Little Sisters of the poor.  None of the Sisters will us birth control and what their non-consecrated employees do is their own business, not the Sisters or the Becket fund.  The key differentiation, which is the undercurrent in all these cases is religious freedom v. religious power.  Religious freedom is solely for the employees and religious power is a violation of the first amendment and of Griswold v. Connecticut.  The unconscionable option is what Becket has argued for, not the government.  Of course, the Church, being under the myth that life happens before gastrulation may not see it that way.  Being wrong, however, is not a first amendment right.



Democrats for Life should be disbanded, if anyone.  Its part of the right to life movement farce.  What the medical director caught on camera said is as true for miscarriage as it is for abortions performed if tissue is being preserved for either analysis or research.  How dentists learn anatomy is equally hard for the squeemish.  Get over it.



Joining sympathies to his excellency on the death of his mother.  I hope he takes a nice retreat soon to cope with it.  Burying my mom was the hardest thing I ever did and left the deepest scar.



Catholics for Choice is actually honest about what i wrote above about the NRLC being a GOP scam.  It does not mean endorsing abortion - it is endorsing the proposition that relgious power in this instance is not wise, especially not when it is mostly a partisan association for the financial and political interests of the GOP and NRLC and not the unborn.  I am not sure why the web page having its own staff report on its survey is somehow out of line.  If you have the in house talent, use it.  They are advocacy, not press, and never said otherwise.