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February, 2003
 

North Dakota Bishops Oppose Bill to Outlaw Abortion


Comment:

It seems to me that he sees the woman as a victim too, someone who needs the love of the Church and community rather than a prison sentence.  The abortion would be punishment enough.

Reply by Cunneen
(cunneen@aol.com)

???  By a conscious decision, she takes the life of her child.  Should we extend the same courtesy to the mother who kills her children after they are born???  The fact that someone is also a victim mitigates the evil, but it does not excuse it.*

Reply by Stephen Korsman
(skorsman@theotokos.co.za)

On one level I do see this. Woman are certainly led to believe that abortion is harmless and assured they will have no regrets. When a woman does have regrets, she is cast aside and belittled by the very same people that gave her the assurances. After all, there is something wrong with her to even feel remorse, it was a blob of cells, it wasn't alive, etc. In that way they are victims but that doesn't change that she decided to kill and that there is another victim in the picture.

On the other hand there are women who have no problem terminating the life within them. They are not going to understand that killing on demand is unethical in a million years. This is an extreme measure but then again, we are talking about extreme hardness of heart.

Such extremes are not that uncommon these days.

*http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20030207003029.27770.00000424%40mb-mj.aol.com