@EyeEdinburgh @ladyheatherlee @RehumanizeAimee Yeah, without knowing the intimate details, that looks questionable too. The ethics directives used by Catholic hospitals provide some, albeit limited, flexibility. This works far more often than it doesn’t. It isn’t perfect (in concept or execution) even if you agree with it.
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@EyeEdinburgh @ladyheatherlee @RehumanizeAimee It does make me cringe when 1. A bishop gets involved in an individual case like this and 2. Moreso when it becomes a public conflict. I can’t help but put myself in the place of the mom who is in the middle of this horrific situation, doing the best she can I presume…
@EyeEdinburgh @ladyheatherlee @RehumanizeAimee and getting caught in a pissing contest between the church and hospital. There’s probably a lot of backstory to that unrelated to the woman.
@EyeEdinburgh @ladyheatherlee @RehumanizeAimee I do think of, for example, the compromise here in Austin that future Benedict XVI brokered between the Catholic hospital and the county health district. The Catholics ran the hospital for the county but carved out the women’s clinic to be operated separately.
@EyeEdinburgh @ladyheatherlee @RehumanizeAimee Of course, plenty in the church didn’t like that idea, but in modern society it’s often more about figuring out solutions that both can accept, even if not ideal, than pontificating that it must be a 100% pure solution in your mind.
@EyeEdinburgh @ladyheatherlee @RehumanizeAimee Which, again, which I say I’m more about hearts and minds than being legalistic about this. Abortion being illegal doesn’t actually achieve the pro-life goal.