Catholicae Testudines

On Space and Births

Regarding a comment made down below I thought this quote from Cardinal Arinze would be appropriate.

Arinze is an enthusiastic advocate of the church ban on artificial contraception. But in reply to a question about what to do when one spouse wants more children and the other doesn't, he insisted they decide together.

"Although a child is a blessing and not a curse, it is for them to decide, in all responsibility, when the next child will come," he said.

Spacing of births must be done though natural family planning based on the woman's fertility cycle, and the couple cannot rule out children all together. But "there can be no mathematical formula" for decisions about when to have a child, he said.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04208/351873.stm

If abortion is as right as they say,

Then how is this wrong?  Seriously, though, how can you not be upset at the boyfiend (er, boyfriend)?  But how is it any different from when a doctor does it with a slightly different tool?

Values

I can't figure out if the left is being dishonest when they talk about "values," or if they're really religiously colorblind enough to think that all "values" are created equal, or if it's just a case of believing one's own propaganda.

John Kerry has to know that when he uses the word "values," people taste the undeniable moral-religious flavor this word has in our culture.  One has to wonder whether the discussion only goes as deep as health care issues when, judging from his voting record over the last six months to a year, that abortion on demand is among the most important of his values.

Again, Sen. Boxer makes a "principled stand" against the "attack" from the right.  Absurd.  I suppose that if you were a doctor, and someone brought his elderly father to you and demanded that you euthanize him, and you told him to find a different doctor because you save peoples' lives, not take them, then you would be violating his rights, and you should be punished for violating "childrens' rights."  This is not too outlandish when you think about the fact that euthanasia is accepatable to John Kerry and that he is hardly a maverick on this one.

The Spectator considers "values" in this context.