{"id":8658,"date":"2010-05-17T10:23:47","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T14:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=8658"},"modified":"2010-05-17T10:23:47","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T14:23:47","slug":"pq-leader-outraged-that-canadian-cardinal-is-too-catholic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/pq-leader-outraged-that-canadian-cardinal-is-too-catholic\/","title":{"rendered":"PQ leader outraged that Canadian Cardinal is too Catholic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/montreal\/story\/2010\/05\/17\/ouellet-marois-abortion-rape.html\" target=\"_blank\">CBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Several female politicians and women&#8217;s rights activists have denounced anti-abortion remarks made by the Catholic Church&#8217;s top Canadian official over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>He called abortion a &#8220;moral crime&#8221; as serious as murder.<\/p>\n<p>Ouellet said he understands how a sexually assaulted woman has been traumatized and must be helped and that her attacker must be held accountable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But there is already a victim,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Must there be another one?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois Leader Pauline Marois, Liberal cabinet minister Marguerite Blais and the president of the Quebec Women&#8217;s Federation have spoken out against Ouellet.<\/p>\n<p>Marois, speaking to a weekend PQ policy conference, said she was &#8220;absolutely outraged&#8221; by the remarks, adding that the archbishop of Quebec was trying to undo rights that were won decades ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There\u2019s nothing quite as enjoyable as the secular howl of indignation when a Christian is consistent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the CBC: Several female politicians and women&#8217;s rights activists have denounced anti-abortion remarks made by the Catholic Church&#8217;s top Canadian official over the weekend. Cardinal Marc Ouellet, attending the Campagne Pro-Vie conference in Quebec City on Saturday, suggested that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/pq-leader-outraged-that-canadian-cardinal-is-too-catholic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2022,2240],"class_list":["post-8658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","tag-abortion","tag-roman-catholicism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}