No, this isn't about Joni Mitchell and I'm not going to talk about bows and flows of angel hair, just about stunning hypocrisy. How many
ice cream castles have been built upon the idea that a fertilized human
egg cell is a human being possessed of human rights? It would be
hypocritical enow that those rights are allowed by Church doctrine to
foetuses when they have been so often denied to adults by religious
authorities, but that's not what this is about. It's about, as I said,
hypocrisy; about arguing both sides when needed to avoid guilt, or at
least to avoid prosecution and penalty.
Catholic
Health Initiatives, with assets estimated at around 15 billion dollars,
operates a chain of hospitals and as a response to a wrongful death
suit involving twin foetuses who died before birth, their attorneys
argued that in cases of wrongful death, the term “person” only applies
to individuals born alive, and not to those who die in utero, says Raw Story today.
Perhaps that will be a precedent that
plagues them in future when they try to argue otherwise according to
Roman Catholic doctrine regarding abortion and birth control, but
looking at this cloudy argument from both sides now is pretty
entertaining, don't you think? And of course we remember all the adages
telling us that when they argue principle, what they mean is money.
Feather canyons everywhere, indeed.
Shorter version:
ReplyDelete"Tapeworm meets umbilical cord."
what hypocrites they are! when is a fetus not a person according to the same church that insists that every fetus is a person--when it may cost that same church money in a wrongful death action involving the unborn.
ReplyDeleteAs I said, morality is spelled M-O-N-E-Y
ReplyDeleteNow isn't THAT a tangled web the defenders of fetuses everywhere finds themselves in? Yes, Fogg, quite agree, money changes the view.
ReplyDeleteNow if we can only get the Courts to say that sometimes a Corporation is not a person.
ReplyDeleteI could make all kinds of Pandora's Box and Can of worms references, but the next time on of those hospitals refuses to terminate a pregnancy or pay for an employee's birth control, my snarkatron is warmed up and waiting.
Monday, February 4, 2012 - The Church just disavowed the defense of its own lawyers. Took them awhile, didn't it! Curious to see how this plays out.
ReplyDeleteMagna quæstio est de Mendacio, wrote Augustine in his retractions I wish I could understand what he was trying to say therein, but it never made sense to me. Perhaps it wasn't meant to, but it shows that lying for the Lord for purposes such as saving money, has been a concern for a long time.
ReplyDeleteNehil novis sub solis, seems to be my most worn bit of Latin.