Links for 05/13/16 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Most abortions occur before week 13. Attaching an embryo to an artificial placenta may solve the need for abortion when the fetus is healthy but the mother cannot carry it, but that is extremely rare. The real problems are social and economic (including conservative parents who force daughters into abortion to hide their sexuality). There are no abortion laws, by the way. There are abortion court decisions that say that laws regulating abortion are not allowed. Pro-lifers consistently get this fact wrong and think they can vote their way out of legal abortion. No such luck, unless you get really generous with families and pregnant teens (at which point the conservatives call foul and say you should not pay people not to sin). What the pro-life movement wants, more than ending abortion, is a return to the good old days of apparent chastity (as if teens did not have sex before 1968).
Happy Birthday to Mark Silk and congratulations for raising such fine sons. Now that economics has become the chief issue to many, Pandora's Box is now open. The issues Bernie represents are not going away - they are the issues I have been working with when gay marriage was just a scary part of Scalia's dissent in Lawrence v. Texas. I was able to work on both the culture war and economic revolution and it looks like there is an audience for what I have written. Sadly, politics is about money and influence. Bernie got the money but not the influence this year. Organizing all that energy seems to be what is next.
The Pope is really stressing the year of Mercy. I still maintain that Mercy should be linked with Truth, so that unmerciful teachings, such as those on homosexuality, should be denounced. Mercy is about more than just forgiveness. Its about gleaning on the Sabbath and having a nice scallop wrapped in bacon.
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