Comments on: the result of frantic efforts http://cosmos-liturgy-sex.com/2008/06/11/the-results-of-frantic-efforts/ Now This Is The Real World! Where Theology and Real Life Meet. Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:41:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Pentimento http://cosmos-liturgy-sex.com/2008/06/11/the-results-of-frantic-efforts/comment-page-1/#comment-860424 Pentimento Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:27:27 +0000 http://cosmos-liturgy-sex.com/?p=1457#comment-860424 You seem to be questioning Field's reliability as an eyewitness of the horrific things he reports, but your own assertion, that the women he saw who had attempted self-induced abortions were really suffering from cluster B personality disorders, is pure conjecture. I am not "pro-choice," and I found Fielding's op-ed piece profoundly disturbing, because there is simply no way to refute or to verify his account. I suppose we would like to believe that all women desperate enough to seek abortions in the 1940s were emotionally disturbed, but I fear that this is a sweeping generalization of the sort that we use to make ourselves feel more comfortable, and is probably not true. Fielding is right when he says that abortion has always been with us; the fact that the early Christians did not practice it was one of the things that made them stand out in marked relief to other citizens of the Roman Empire. We need to do all we can to heal the women who have been traumatized by abortion, and traumatized enough to seek it out. You seem to be questioning Field’s reliability as an eyewitness of the horrific things he reports, but your own assertion, that the women he saw who had attempted self-induced abortions were really suffering from cluster B personality disorders, is pure conjecture. I am not “pro-choice,” and I found Fielding’s op-ed piece profoundly disturbing, because there is simply no way to refute or to verify his account. I suppose we would like to believe that all women desperate enough to seek abortions in the 1940s were emotionally disturbed, but I fear that this is a sweeping generalization of the sort that we use to make ourselves feel more comfortable, and is probably not true. Fielding is right when he says that abortion has always been with us; the fact that the early Christians did not practice it was one of the things that made them stand out in marked relief to other citizens of the Roman Empire. We need to do all we can to heal the women who have been traumatized by abortion, and traumatized enough to seek it out.

]]> By: LCB http://cosmos-liturgy-sex.com/2008/06/11/the-results-of-frantic-efforts/comment-page-1/#comment-858497 LCB Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:56:46 +0000 http://cosmos-liturgy-sex.com/?p=1457#comment-858497 Great article on the "myth of the coathanger." http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=37157 The numbers claimed can't possibly be true. Indeed, some of those that perpetuated that lie have since become pro-life and openly admitted the numbers often cited were simply made up. Great article on the “myth of the coathanger.”

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=37157

The numbers claimed can’t possibly be true. Indeed, some of those that perpetuated that lie have since become pro-life and openly admitted the numbers often cited were simply made up.

]]> By: kris http://cosmos-liturgy-sex.com/2008/06/11/the-results-of-frantic-efforts/comment-page-1/#comment-856975 kris Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:10:11 +0000 http://cosmos-liturgy-sex.com/?p=1457#comment-856975 GREAT POST!!!! GREAT POST!!!!

]]> By: Steven Cornett http://cosmos-liturgy-sex.com/2008/06/11/the-results-of-frantic-efforts/comment-page-1/#comment-851217 Steven Cornett Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:22:07 +0000 http://cosmos-liturgy-sex.com/?p=1457#comment-851217 We may hate what they do, but those whose malice arises from trauma especially deserve our prayers and appeal to the Divine Physician, who came to heal the sickness of sin. We may hate what they do, but those whose malice arises from trauma especially deserve our prayers and appeal to the Divine Physician, who came to heal the sickness of sin.

]]> By: Steven Cornett http://cosmos-liturgy-sex.com/2008/06/11/the-results-of-frantic-efforts/comment-page-1/#comment-851213 Steven Cornett Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:20:22 +0000 http://cosmos-liturgy-sex.com/?p=1457#comment-851213 Michael Savage was more correct than he realized when he said "Liberalism is a mental disorder." The only problem is that he has the notion that it allows us the option to despise such people when, if it really arises out of psychic or spiritual disease or injury, such people deserve spite or hatred as little as someone with cancer. Michael Savage was more correct than he realized when he said “Liberalism is a mental disorder.” The only problem is that he has the notion that it allows us the option to despise such people when, if it really arises out of psychic or spiritual disease or injury, such people deserve spite or hatred as little as someone with cancer.

]]> By: dim bulb http://cosmos-liturgy-sex.com/2008/06/11/the-results-of-frantic-efforts/comment-page-1/#comment-850821 dim bulb Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:36:18 +0000 http://cosmos-liturgy-sex.com/?p=1457#comment-850821 The contention that abortion had to be made legal, because too many women were dying by having it done illegally, has always struck me as a stupid argument. It's a cheap appeal to emotions rather than reason. The contention that abortion had to be made legal, because too many women were dying by having it done illegally, has always struck me as a stupid argument. It’s a cheap appeal to emotions rather than reason.

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