My support for abortion and the morning-after pill
Sept 15, 2017 0:43:08 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2017 0:43:08 GMT -5
Good morning to you all! I trust that all is well with all of you! 'The Daily Telegraph' leads with some editorial comment on my support for abortion and the morning-after pill ... But I don't care!
What do you reckon, Alistair? Is the Pope a Catholic? Are you? What about Uncle Henry?
"The morning-after pill: licence for promiscuity or a godsend in a crisis? Discuss. No biting, eye-gouging or hair-pulling. This week it emerged that women can now buy advance supplies of Levonelle emergency contraception for £4.99, a fraction of the cost at high-street outlets such as Superdrug, where prices start at £13.50 a pop.
The incendiary element is that customers can buy two packs at a time, which has led to the usual polarised response of elation and outrage, cries of immorality and counter cries of oppression. Now, I am an Irish Catholic. A practising Catholic – and still practising after all these years, because I’m not sure I’ll ever be good enough, which is, of course, central to Catholicism. So, theologically speaking, I am inclined to keep my head under the parapet. But as the mother of girls, I just can’t stop myself from adding my tuppenceworth to the debate ... "
The incendiary element is that customers can buy two packs at a time, which has led to the usual polarised response of elation and outrage, cries of immorality and counter cries of oppression. Now, I am an Irish Catholic. A practising Catholic – and still practising after all these years, because I’m not sure I’ll ever be good enough, which is, of course, central to Catholicism. So, theologically speaking, I am inclined to keep my head under the parapet. But as the mother of girls, I just can’t stop myself from adding my tuppenceworth to the debate ... "
What do you reckon, Alistair? Is the Pope a Catholic? Are you? What about Uncle Henry?
