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- talk about a biased report, Shame on you CBS this was an awful bad piece of reporting.
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- You have overlooked a major fact. The doctors said they could not save both Mom and Baby. However, they could save one or the other. They only mentioned saving the Mother. Why didn't they try saving just the baby? Both Mom and Baby are equal human beings. That's the real problem at hand.
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- It is very obvious that those who prepared the story and those that were interviewed, especially the Sisters, never actually read the Documents of Vatican II. Catholicity of both Universities and Hospitals are not mentioned in the Documents. They have their own documents. As far as worship, the Documents clearly state the use of Latin, Chant, and proper translation, which every non-English country followed.
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- The Catholic Church is a Universal church and was founded and uses a couple different way to determine what it does. There are somethings based on God's law and others based on tradition. Anything that is based on God's Law can not be changed and is looked at very seriously. Abortions is one of those absolutes that is based on God's law. A person who is supposed to be in a guidance position and determining what to do in this instance, need to do so very carefully, realizing that God will hold that person responsible for the guidance of others. There are so many who do not believe in the decisions of the Catholic Church, this should be no problem... if you do not like the decisions necessary in the Catholic Church... there are many other places to go. You do not need to wish the Church change when you have so many other places to go that believe like you do. There is no need to have the Church to change so it can join everyone else who wish it to change to be in agreement. Its objective is to be in accord to what is wished by God and not by every man or woman... there it would be all over the map and not the stable representative of God and it should be. Then there would be no difference in it from the rest of the world.
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- The Church is and always has been against abortion. One human life is not more valuable than another. Just because the mother is a person we can know and see, and the baby is not, does not make the baby disposable.
This article seems bias. When this all first happened the doctors said the mother "could" die...not "would" die.
Also, a Catholic hospital is just that...Catholic. Which means we believe in and trust God, who is the author of life. If a person wants an abortion or contraception they can go to a non-Catholic hospital.
This mother's life was not in immediate danger. She didn't have to have an emergency abortion. When she decided she wanted to kill her own child to save herself, the Catholic hospital should have said no, we won't do that. She could have then chosen to go elsewhere, a hospital that does not value the unborn human life.
As a Catholic woman and a mother, I am appalled that this nun would have agreed to end the life of an unborn human being as if the child was a non-being at all. So sad.
As Catholics we believe in miracles. If it had come to the point that in attempting to save the mother, the baby died, that would have been understandable. But to authorize the killing of a baby just because it could pose a danger to the mother, is playing God. - Reply to this comment
- As for the hospital: To regain its "Catholic" status, the bishop insists that it must say the medical procedure that resulted in the abortion and saved the mother of four was in violation of religious and ethical policies, and will never happen again.
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So basically they have to say that next time they'll let the mother die. Leaving 4 children without a mother! The way this article reads that sounds like it would be no problem, they'd still have their father and that's all that matters anyway!!! : ( - Reply to this comment
- This is silly. I'm a Southern Baptist, and I do not know of a fellow Southern Baptist lay person or minister who would not give the green light to the doctors to abort the baby if the mother was in danger, and 1. the mother decided that her life is more important than the baby's (her right, but not laudable by our standards), or 2. she is incapacitated and nobody else present has the right to make that decision, or 3. both she and the baby are in danger, and she decides that both she and her baby will likely die together if something is not done. Other than Catholicism, I don't think there is any denomination that is more hawkish on the abortion issue than the Southern Baptists.
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- by dogsoul December 5, 2011 10:47 AM EST
...well CBS - for me, you've finally done it.
I recognize your right to publish whatever it is you see fit - and I've read your shameless promotion of the liberal agenda along with your Christian (especially Catholic) bashing for quite some time. And I've debated much of that in these forums.
But now, I'm done... as a Catholic - and an American, I am excercising my right & what I view as my moral respobsibility to ensure this will be the last time I will visit your website or watch your television station.
I would encourage any other Catholics to follow their own hearts with regard to this matter as well.
Goodbye.
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You won't be missed in the least... - Reply to this comment
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- It's obvious that this church of evil would have preferred the mother die.
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