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Links for 10/16/15 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Fetal tissue harvesting happens with abortion and miscarriage and Planned Parenthood is not the only organization that does it.  Someone should invite Catholic Health Association to relate their experience with this phenomenon, including cost recovery negotiations.  Of course, I doubt that CHA will be allowed to testify in this propoganda war.  No one likes the Eugenic genesis of this this organization and this may end those federally funded women's health services provided for free (although certainly not to everyone), but as long as a pimply burger flipper needs to earn money because he needs to pay for his girlfriend's abortion, Planned Parenthood will exist.  Ultimately, finding a way for our pimply faced worker and his lady to marry, have a kid and seek a better future at the same time with heavy public subsidies is what will end PPUSA.  Of course, those who think justice is envy will never go with that - see Brooks ande Langone below.



Coercion is not a feature of the right to die movement.  Pop culture is not destiny.  The fact is that the prohibitions on suicide and doctors helping their patients die are coercive and that part of the issue is still obvious to everyone.  It will propel it forward until it gets to the Supreme Court again with more support on the ground and the issue will be considered private from then on, i.e., not the subject for prohibiting legislation.  No one is talking about mandatory suicide for either patients or doctors, at least no one but the fear mongers who still have their under current of a God who reserves life and death to Himself (and for them, God is always a him) - and this is the biggest fear of all.  - The question for the Church, by the way, is not how we stop it? Frankly, we cannot and probably should not. The question is how respond to it with compassion, without pulling the God the Ogre card.



Brooks is simply wrong.  It was not free enterprise that made the rich as much as access to education - often at the hands of the Church.  While the ability to get financing certainly helped grow some businesses, it was know-how that got most fortunes made.  Some second generation rich use their educations for that reason while others drown their future in alcohol and entitlement - which is why wealth is not permanent for any family.  Going back to Francis and his message of unity - I wonder how many of the wealthy could stand the economic unityof the Church in the Acts of the Apostles?  Some defenders of capitalism blame envy for a desire for more equality, however they seem to be the devils here.  Justice is not envy.



Langone believes that because he loves the Church and Pope Francis that he has a right to pay his store floor level employees as little as the market allows while keeping the difference.  That is what Capitalism is and that is what Francis condemns.  Langone needs to take an economics course - one taught by a Marxist.