Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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"Our job is to enhance life,"

This is an incredible, new twist in the so-called "pro-life" movement, but not a surprising twist given their extremist stance. The birth control pill has multiple uses, including it's use as an anti-cancer prophalaxis. They are essentially sacrificing the lives and well being of thousands of women to save the potential life of a several celled zygote. This is yet another example of an extreme element attempting to impose their religious beliefs on the whole. Who is behind these anti-birth control groups, and are they pro-life or simply anti-women?

The Catholic Church continues it's opposition to abortion in all instances, because "nothing good can come from evil," or something along those lines. But the heirarchy is again preaching to the choir. There's a huge disconnect between the heirarchy and mainstream Catholics on matters of sexuality. A church, synogogue, or mosque is not it's establishment, it is it's people. The fact that the Catholic heirarchy believes it has any moral relevancy on matters of sexuality is actually kind of funny.
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The Bible thumping logic:

Can birth control pills kill unborn babies?

A dirty, little secret in the pharmaceutical world is that the Pill if taken in a certain way can actually work AFTER conception by preventing the embryo from implanting on the uterine wall. In other words, the pill can cause the baby to die. This is simply abortion by another name.

http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-bcpill.html
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How do Catholics feel about abortion?

Polls show that Catholics the world over support the right to legal abortion and believe it can be a moral option.

http://www.catholicsforchoice.org/adecisionbottomhigh.htm

One of the problems with intellectual debates on abortion is that there is no commonly agreed to set of technical terms to deal with the moral issues. However, our own definition of terms includes the above distinction between merely being human in the sense that one has human genetic material or human parents, on the one hand, and being a human person in some morally relevant sense, on the other. Further, we try to avoid speaking vaguely about when "life begins," since plant cells, paramecia, individual sperm and other cells are alive. The important question is, when does prenatal life become sophisticated enough that it can be coherently seen as having significant moral status?

http://www.catholicsforchoice.org/cathwomen/AbriefLiberalCatholicDefense.htm
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