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Published Date: 06 June 2007
By JAMES KIRKUP
'WHAT is wrong with women?" That is the question recently posed in an internet essay by Joss Whedon, the Hollywood scriptwriter responsible for, among other things, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And if you're not familiar with the Whedon oeuvre, you might just leap from those bare facts to the wrong conclusion about the question and the questioner.
In fact, far from denigrating women in his films and television programmes, Whedon is widely celebrated for his female characters and the stories he creates for them. His question was part of a reflection on what he sees as a near-universal misogyny....



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Derek Williams,

Edinburgh 06/06/2007 21:59:19

The Catholic Church teaches that the terminating of an infant's life is murder no matter whether it be born or unborn. It proclaims and holds this to the very fibre of its being, with a passion equalled only by that of the pro-abortion lobby. Given this construction, it is therefore in my view, not at all inappropriate for it to liken such huge scale extinctions of viable pregnancies with mass murder. It is consistent with its own teachings.

The trouble is, the Catholic Church also prohibits birth control, the lack of which gives rise to unwanted pregnancy.

While I believe the Church's teaching is preposterous on matters like birth control, which it forbids, and homosexuality which it excoriates, when it comes to abortion I believe they have an argument which is far harder to refute.

Personally, I am in favour of abortion only if the pregnancy is the result of rape or if there are overwhelming medical circumstances. Otherwise I am as opposed as is the Church to the routine reliance upon abortion as a method of birth control. I don't believe children, born or unborn are the property of anybody. The fact that they are defenceless should compel us all the more to protect them.

To suggest as this article does, that I should not allowed to express these views because, like Cardinal O'Brien, I am a single, childless (though non-religious) male is argumentum ad hominem.


 

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