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Originally Posted by Beryana
I'm simply providing non-media sources to read up on what the Catholic Church actually teaches as well as the basis for those social teachings on the sanctity of human life.
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Do you really want to play the if-you-only-
really-understood-it-you'd-agree-with-it card? Because it is possible to really understand something and reject it.
And why do you keep assuming that people are relying on the MSM? (Although count me with those Catholics who are saying that the Catholic Church owes the media a
big thank you for reporting on the child abuse scandal.)
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Originally Posted by AOII Angel
I almost forgot about you, Mr. Cat. No, that's not what I said. Yes, we're really terminating a pregnancy in all the cases described. No, we're not always saving the mother's life acutely in all the cases, though, in the case of a ruptured ectopic pregnancy and the woman in the OP, the termination does save the life of the mother.
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Hope I wasn't misquoting or miscontruing you. I was referring to this:
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Originally Posted by AOII Angel
The way they are the same is that both will kill the mother, and both require a termination of the pregnancy to save the life of the mother. By calling it a "salpingectomy", catholics have given themselves a little out, like, oh, I'm not really terminating the pregnancy, I'm just cutting out the fallopian tube.
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Like I said, I think we come down in the same spot on this one; it's just the lawyer in me want's precision in arguments and accurate understanding of other's positions.
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Originally Posted by Drolefille
Also you cannot have my burrito it has been nomnomnom'd away.
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And you couldn't spring for another one for me?