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Entry: When in Doubt . . . Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/when_in_doubt#6434 Post contents: @Nergol: The Church is composed of both divine and human elements, and the human elements can, and often do, err. Please don't let those errors undercut your faith in the Church. I don't think that the Connecticut bishops are deliberately sanctioning chemical abortion. I think that they, like so many other people today, have gotten caught up in their "compassion." Bishop Lori issue a "clarification" that I'll blog about later, but the one thing that became clear from it was that he and his brother bishops are explicitly thinking what I outlined above--namely, that rape is the worst thing that can happen to a woman, and therefore we should do everything in our power (short of abortion) to help keep her from carrying the rapist's child and prolonging the injustice. That is, frankly, a warped view of the world. And it has warped the bishops' views so much that, I think, they've been blinded to the fact (not supposition, not even possibility, but fact) that this pill works, in part, as an abortifacient. They regard the fact that it works in multiple ways as "uncertainty" over how it works in a particular case, which would mitigate against complicity. They're wrong, of course, but not because they're evil, but because they, like everyone else today, are too nice. Sent at: 2008 11 21