re: #381 SanFranciscoZionist

We got this back when Tiller was shot. People were reading about cases where women were travelling halfway across the country to get to a doctor who would do the late-term abortion that would save their life, and trolls were popping up right left and center to suggest that ‘maybe’ their medical condition wasn’t really as bad as Tiller said, and ‘maybe’ they’d just been too lazy to get a first-trimester abortion…

FOAD.

Well, nobody should curse you for your position, and nobody should shoot abortionists. The one is inexcusably rude, and the other is just plain murder and absolutely indefensible.

When it comes to the facts of partial birth abortion and how often it is undertaken because the mother’s life is endangered, we do have the testimony of some erstwhile insiders in the PBA industry that almost all the PBA’s performed were done for the convenience of the mother and there was no life-threatening condition involved. Considering the large number of PBA’s performed and the extreme rarity of the conditions diagnosed, at least, rarity until they became convenient diagnoses, this seems quite likely.

This case in AZ that is the topic of the post seems to be one of the few in which the mother’s life really was in danger. When that is the case, an abortion is fully consistent with Catholic teaching and doctrine. The church authorities who took adverse action against the administrator are making their own rules and not heeding church teaching. If they want to be religious fanatics, they should at least stick to the playbook of their denomination.