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Politics : The abortion issue: pro-choice vs. anti-abortion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (138)	12/12/2008 3:25:24 PM
From: LLCF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 286

<In Catholic morality and in most schools of or sources of moral thought, intention is important. Nothing particularly Buddhist about the idea.> Well, except in practice. It's no secret that intention is stressed much more in Buddhism than in current day Catholocism, and even more so other Christian sects that stress Old Testement "rules" over Jesus law of the heart. <But few (if any) people accidentally take the morning after pill.> Well, that's obvious and not their point. <I understand you disagree with the churches position here, but I'm not sure why you see it as so complicated or exotic,> It's neither... what's complicated is their need to drone on in these encyclicals with endless clarifications. Just think of the time, money, and institutional energy put behind letting a woman know that if she thought it was just birth control, then she can feel less guilty (and die more whole) than if she meant to abort... assuming of course she thought a separate "soul" (or part of a "soul" as in other traditions) actually in place at the moment of the "non-connection" to uterine wall. Yea, thanks for the clarification Dr. Ratzinger. You're unending metal disection and judgement of possible choices in life somehow seems to directly oppose certain main thrusts of Jesus teachings.... let me count the ways. DAK