Looking at left blogs is really bad for my health. The other day I had a quick look at Spanblather's Linky Love, to find a link to abortion and the hypocrisy of the Catholic Church, the author of which is really "hearted" by Span. Ok, I thought, let's have a look as to what this supposed "hypocrisy" is.
It was just the same old tired argument that abortion ought to be legal because if it isn't legal, then women are going to do it anyway, and if they do it illegally it's more likely to be dangerous and therefore kill many more women than if it were legal. The Catholic Church is being hypocritical in opposing abortion, because they are supposed to be about protecting life - and look, women getting illegal abortions are dying! Doesn't the Catholic Church care?
It's the biggest load of crap ever.
Apply the same argument to organ harvesting. People are dying because they can't get organs. If we allow organ harvesting of the unwanted, then people won't die anymore (apart from the unwanted, but who cares about them). It will be safer for all concerned to make this process legal, because if it's legal, it's more likely to be safe and also successful. If we keep it illegal, people are going to do it anyway, and more people will probably die of the people we care about - those sick people who need organs.
What? The Catholic Church opposes this? Something about the sanctity of life and all - call them hypocrites. If they really cared about people, then they'd be all for the harvesting of organs from the unwanted, just like they'd be all for the abortion of the unwanted. Whatever happens, the unwanted are going to die anyway, so why not have some good come out of it all?
Why doesn't anybody think about the children? Oh, wait, they do. They don't want us to be able to smack our children to discipline them, but they are happy for us to kill them if we don't want them. Before they are big enough for anyone to care, of course.
It was just the same old tired argument that abortion ought to be legal because if it isn't legal, then women are going to do it anyway, and if they do it illegally it's more likely to be dangerous and therefore kill many more women than if it were legal. The Catholic Church is being hypocritical in opposing abortion, because they are supposed to be about protecting life - and look, women getting illegal abortions are dying! Doesn't the Catholic Church care?
It's the biggest load of crap ever.
Apply the same argument to organ harvesting. People are dying because they can't get organs. If we allow organ harvesting of the unwanted, then people won't die anymore (apart from the unwanted, but who cares about them). It will be safer for all concerned to make this process legal, because if it's legal, it's more likely to be safe and also successful. If we keep it illegal, people are going to do it anyway, and more people will probably die of the people we care about - those sick people who need organs.
What? The Catholic Church opposes this? Something about the sanctity of life and all - call them hypocrites. If they really cared about people, then they'd be all for the harvesting of organs from the unwanted, just like they'd be all for the abortion of the unwanted. Whatever happens, the unwanted are going to die anyway, so why not have some good come out of it all?
Why doesn't anybody think about the children? Oh, wait, they do. They don't want us to be able to smack our children to discipline them, but they are happy for us to kill them if we don't want them. Before they are big enough for anyone to care, of course.