From the CBC:
Several female politicians and women’s rights activists have denounced anti-abortion remarks made by the Catholic Church’s top Canadian official over the weekend.
Cardinal Marc Ouellet, attending the Campagne Pro-Vie conference in Quebec City on Saturday, suggested that abortion can never be justified, even in cases where a woman has been raped.
He called abortion a “moral crime” as serious as murder.
Ouellet said he understands how a sexually assaulted woman has been traumatized and must be helped and that her attacker must be held accountable.
“But there is already a victim,” he said. “Must there be another one?”
Parti Québécois Leader Pauline Marois, Liberal cabinet minister Marguerite Blais and the president of the Quebec Women’s Federation have spoken out against Ouellet.
Marois, speaking to a weekend PQ policy conference, said she was “absolutely outraged” by the remarks, adding that the archbishop of Quebec was trying to undo rights that were won decades ago.
There’s nothing quite as enjoyable as the secular howl of indignation when a Christian is consistent.
The Cardinal is absolutely correct. Allowing abortion in where the pregnancy is the result of rape is nothing short of allowing a baby to be murdered because of a crime committed by its father.
I can sympathize with the woman who is the victim of rape (although being a man I don’t think that I can every completely and truly empathize). But what is done is done. Although rape is a huge “wrong”, allowing another even worse “wrong” (the murder of a baby) will in no way what-so-ever undo the first “wrong”. Simply put, two wrongs don’t make a right. Additionally, we must always remember, and make known to everyone, the option of adoption.
I always understood the CBC to be on the “political left” in Canada. But the posts on the CBC blog for this article are incredible. Also, the indicators of agree / disagree are shocking! Anyone who posts anything that is pro life is overwhelming disagreed with. Anyone who posts anything that is pro abortion, and/or anti religion is overwhilmingly agreed with.
Seems the audience of the CBC is very one sided. But why should I be surprised by that. The CBC has always been a very one sided and biased organization. I think that I will call my MP and insist that my tax dollars no longer subsidize the CBC.
I hope (assume) that the Cardinal knows that abortion IS a crime of murder (and worse than if I murder a man in the street, because he will have already had a measure of adult/normal life; abortion victims get no life at all). Why should a person be denied any experience of life just because his father is an evil criminal (ie. rapist)? Are you or I responsible (or held responsible) for our father’s crimes? (God did not give US the right to order punishment for “the sins of the fathers”). You really have to admire RCs for their consistency, tenacity, and total refusal to be swayed by popular “values”, or by being a tiny minority; if only Anglicans/Anglican churches could be as bold.
You are right, of course. However, it takes a great deal of courage to carry a baby conceived by rape to term. I hope the Cardinal supports his local crisis pregnancy centre – and if there isn’t a local one, his diocese should start one.
I have to wonder, in our current secular society that has so embraced the religion of science, if the government would allow any religous group to establish and run a crisis pregnancy center.
Also, what if the government run crisis pregnancy centers has a track record of advising women to have abortions? Should the Cardinal direct anyone to such a center?
There are Crisis pregnancy centres run by religious groups all over the country. The government has no say in what they do as long as they don’t take government money.
This website has lots of information:
http://www.capss.com/
(As far as I know, the government doesn’t run any pregnancy centres)
Thanks,
Nice to know. Hope it stays this way.