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...like tuna. As with lead, adults can process an impressive amount of mercury before major damage is done. Not so fetuses. In 2004 the Federal Government warned pregnant women against eating more than 6 oz. of albacore tuna a week. Unfortunately, that warning came a few months after the birth of my first child--which meant I spent the next 72 hours frantically weighing piles of fish flakes to determine how much damage my weekly tuna sandwich might have inflicted on my wee son during gestation. Needless to say, this time around, not one morsel of tuna salad has passed...
...Church because his values went against my own. He seemed a backwards man, caught in a time long since passed and trying to enforce a morality on a world no longer willing to accept it. I criticized his seemingly naïve unawareness that his opposition to birth control could spread pain in a world with dangerous diseases and unwanted children. His stance against abortion seemed to offend human rights. I viewed his refusal to consider female priests as sexism, thinly veiled by Scripture and Church traditions. I thought his refusal to welcome homosexuals into the sacrament of marriage...
...given dignity, not “self-created” dignity—against anyone who would usurp it. In this view, God gives life; the abortion and war we create take it away. God gives us love among each other and within the family; we respond with divorce, birth control, and new conceptions of that family relationship. God gives us freedom; Soviet communism and the moral laissez-faire attitudes of modern democracy steal that freedom away...
Regarding the laity, the Pope made it clear that he did not consider individual conscience a legitimate rationale for believers' second-guessing the church's positions on birth control, abortion, female ordination and a host of other teachings. "Opposition to the church's pastors," he wrote, "cannot be seen as a legitimate expression of Christian freedom. It is prohibited--to every one in every case--to violate these precepts...
...curbing explosive population growth in Africa. Had effective measures been taken to reduce overpopulation a generation ago, extreme poverty would not exist today. It is indeed unfortunate that we are led by the wishy-washy, who prefer to address poverty by providing developmental assistance while ignoring the options of birth control and family planning. Frank Scimone Amsterdam Jeffrey Sachs writes movingly on the plight of the poor, but I take issue with his statement that antimalarial bed nets are not available to the poor in Kenya because they cost ?several dollars.? This is simply untrue. A collaborative program between...