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Bears no longer shit in woods

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Alan H
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Bears no longer shit in woods

#1 Post by Alan H » February 18th, 2016, 6:47 pm

Pope suggests contraception can be condoned in Zika crisis
Pope Francis has indicated that women exposed to the Zika virus may be permitted to use contraception to avoid pregnancy, in a departure from Catholic teaching.

However he reiterated the church’s staunch opposition to abortion, saying it was a crime and “absolute evil”.

His comments came as women in South America frantically try to terminate pregnancies for fear of giving birth to babies with microcephaly, which gives them unusually small heads.

Speaking to reporters on the papal plane as he returned to Rome after a visit to Mexico, Francis obliquely suggested that artificial contraception could be used in extreme situations to avoid pregnancy.

Unlike abortion, “avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil” and in certain circumstances it may be “the lesser evil”.
Alan Henness

There are three fundamental questions for anyone advocating Brexit:

1. What, precisely, are the significant and tangible benefits of leaving the EU?
2. What damage to the UK and its citizens is an acceptable price to pay for those benefits?
3. Which ruling of the ECJ is most persuasive of the need to leave its jurisdiction?

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Dave B
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Re: Bears no longer shit in woods

#2 Post by Dave B » February 18th, 2016, 8:09 pm

Huh. You'll be telling me that the Pope's not Catholic next!
"Look forward; yesterday was a lesson, if you did not learn from it you wasted it."
Me, 2015

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