Pope Urges Doctors to Protect Women From Abortion

[kpete]

Source: Associated Press

Pope Urges Doctors to Protect Women From Abortion
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: February 26, 2011


Filed at 1:17 p.m. EST

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI has urged doctors to protect women from the deceptive thought that an abortion might be a solution to social or economic difficulties or health problems.

Benedict reaffirmed the Catholic Church's firm opposition to abortion in a speech Saturday to members of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Vatican's bioethics advisory board.

The pontiff argued that women are often convinced, sometimes by their own doctors, that abortion is a legitimate choice and in some cases even a therapeutic act to prevent their babies from suffering.

Saying "abortion solves nothing," he called on doctors not to give up their duty to defend the consciences of women from such "deception."

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/02/26/world/europe/AP-EU-Pope-Abortion.html?hp

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put a sock on it pope, kpete

[RKP5637]

1. I'm so tired of hearing this pious pope pontificate. Save it for just your own flock. n/t

[Sal Minella]

6. Whenever I run across a male pooh-poohing medical reasons for

an abortion, I always wish he could be a woman at least long enough to hear the words "You have an ectopic pregnancy."

Little lights would go on, I think.

[Warpy]

13. Or let him go through emergency surgery for a ruptured one

If he lives through it, he might have a slightly different opinion of the whole thing.

Unfortunately, the whole area of childbirth is where men are most ignorant and like it that way. They all want to think that because it's a natural process, it's 100% safe and that medicine has made it a comfortable one.

[Joe Bacon]

42. He should tell doctors to protect kids from molesting priests!

But the Dope won't. Meanwhile, I see Cardinal Phony Mahoney retiring and walking away clean...that bastard even admitted he shuffled molesters from parish to parish and he had a fire sale of church properties to pay those nasty lawsuit judgements. Yet that bastard Mahoney got away with it.

[Liberalynn]

19. A lot of the current flock and former flock

don't always like what he says either.

[RKP5637]

38. I liked Pope John Paul II. I'm not Catholic, I'm not even religious, but I liked

Pope John Paul II. He seemed a very sincere person and very likable. I did not like everything he said, but I set that aside to still like the person.

[Wilms]

2. Wilms Urges Pope to Protect Children From Priest

:shrug:

[AndyTiedye]

15. Instead the Pope Protects the Pedophile Priests from the Law

[Solly Mack]

3. Gee...could have used fewer words just calling us stupid.

Fuck him.

[Sal Minella]

4. And who will protect women from the insanity of the pope???

[_ed_]

24. There would be no Pope

if there were no Catholics. Just sayin'.

[ellie]

5. As a Catholic

I have to say, who will protect us from this pope?

[glinda]

21. As someone who grew up traditional Catholic, Bennie is an ass and embarrassment.

[_ed_]

22. As a former Catholic,

I'd remind you that the "Pope" would have no power and no money if there were no Catholics.

[tanyev]

7. Think how many women you could protect by encouraging the use of contraceptives, Mr. Pope.

Just sayin'....

[PA Democrat]

12. +1000

[SpiralHawk]

8. Pope Ratzinger (R): "Keep the little ladies barefoot & pregnant."

[SoapBox]

9. Birth control? Oh ya....

...here popey, stick THIS.

[mitchtv]

10. the best way to do that

is to avoid unwanted pregnancies, eh Ratzo?

[madrchsod]

11. he`s the last person in the world to pass moral judgements

[williesgirl]

14. Tell him to clean up his own church and stay the FUCK out of women's rights. rec'd

[CoffeeCat]

16. and then the Pope added,

"but please know that when these babies are born and you bring them to Church, it is possible
that one of our priests will molest these children and then our organization will go to great
lengths to cover up the crimes for decades--causing untold suffering and trauma."

[skyounkin]

17. STFU!

Like anyone needs to take moral lessons from the head of an organization that has spent the better part of 50 years covering up the acts of sexual predators and child molestors.

[sakabatou]

34. +1

[Liberalynn]

18. Who Is Going to Protect the World From the Pope?

Recovering Catholic here. Not saying that the church hasn't done its share of good but its done an awful lot of bad too just like every other institution in world history.

[DeadEyeDyck]

20. KnR

[_ed_]

23. He doesn't like abortion

because it deprives his army of child rapists fresh meat. This man is human filth.

[Kerrytravelers]

25. Perhaps the pope should spend more time protecting alter children from molesters in his church.

When the pope attends med school and has a valid medical opinion, maybe then I'll listen to his medical advice on private medical matter. Maybe.

[Moonwalk]

26. Why is this news? Other than that he's urging Doctors to do what he can't urge them to do?

I mean, look, this is the Pope. Of course he's going to urge everyone and their mother not to support abortions. Right? What's news worthy about this? It's status quo.

And his urging doctors in regards to this is even sillier. Either the doctor is pro-life and is already urging women away from abortions, or he's a "real" doctor and is going to consider what's best for his patient PERIOD. In which case, it doesn't matter what the Pope has to say because the Pope is not a doctor and doesn't know the fact about the woman in question, and so his opinion can't be factored into what any doctor is going to say to his/her patient.

So the whole thing is the Pope yammering to no purpose, yet again. He's preaching to the choir on one side, and gonna be ignored on the other side. I'm not sure what the point is of telling any one outside of Catholics what he has to say. Who else cares? Who else is influenced by him? Is there really a doctor out there who knows the facts about women who come to him/her on this issue gonna say, "You know, the Pope isn't a woman, never got pregnant, offers no evidence to support his thesis on abortion not solving problems, and is a bias source...but darn it, he sure has changed my mind...." ?

When the Church gets a Pope who says something really important, like "Catholics can now use birth control according to their own conscience and for whatever reason they feel is right...." then that'll be news. Right now, however, with this Pope, nothing he says is news. It's all the same-old, same-old, rehashed status-quo, a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying...nothing.

[old mark]

27. K&R-Another former catholic here. nt

[sarcasmo]

28. Fuck! the pope.

[ehrnst]

29. Says the childless man that lives in a palace. (nt)

[Marnie]

30. And his expertise

in obstetric medicine, in being a woman, in being pregnant, in being a parent, in struggling to earn a living to support a families is.......?

[postulater]

31. The Pope is an idiot. The Pope is God on earth. Therefore God is an idiot.

Fuck em both.

[Arugula Latte]

44. There is no god ... Why is there a pope?

I guess his role is to bring misery to millions here on Earth.

[Vinca]

32. The Pope can get back to me when he grows a uterus.

[4saken]

33. Pope needs to shut up or...

make an actual argument for the anti-abortion rights position. Because they all fail and all they are doing is asserting their unsubstantiated premise, something his religion has gotten very comfortable with.

If I were "pro-life" I'd have to be for the spread of any RNA based self reproducing structure, as that is what "life" implies. It doesn't imply any exclusively human or animal attributes.

[Shining Jack]

35. He's infallible, dontcha know?

Shut up Ratz! :grr:

[TygrBright]

36. Next: Pope Urges Farmers to Protect People From Eating. n/t

[Honeycombe8]

37. Yes, as a woman, I can see that I am an idiot with no independent thought of my own.

I need others, and esp. doctors, to tell me what I should think about abortion. Esp. if they are men.

:silly:

[Unvanguard]

39. "Trust women." n/t

[Auntie Bush]

40. The Pope needs to stay the hell out of my personal health

business and keep his nose into pedophile prevention.

[knitter4democracy]

41. Sorry, Your Eminence, but kiss my ass.

My doctors are right that I can't have any more kids. I cannot afford the procedure to sterilize me (and you'd tell me not to do that, anyway), and should I get married again and get pregnant again, I'd have no choice but to abort the baby, not if I want to survive and protect the two kids I have already.

Seriously, kiss my ass. Until you have walked in my shoes, Your Eminence, and until you have been able to see that even the Christ we follow did not judge those who aborted their children (legal under Jewish law up until quickening in Jesus's day), you have no right to tell me what I can or can't do with my body or tell my doctors not to follow the evidence and best medical practice.

[AngryOldDem]

43. Just how in the hell does he know this as a fact?

<<The pontiff argued that women are often convinced, sometimes by their own doctors, that abortion is a legitimate choice and in some cases even a therapeutic act to prevent their babies from suffering.<<

I am constantly amazed at the depth and breadth of this man's knowledge -- especially when it comes to women's issues.

[NC_Nurse]

45. Actually, childbirth is more dangerous than an abortion according to a new

UK study.

Just sayin...

And who gives a shit what the pope thinks anyway? I guess many do. Sad isn't it?