http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2006/04/21/vatican-maintains-unconscionable-false-stance-against-condoms/ Bioethics, healthcare policy, and related issues. Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:35:38 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2006/04/21/vatican-maintains-unconscionable-false-stance-against-condoms/comment-page-1/#comment-11008 Sufficient Scruples » Blog Archive » Trujillo Waves the Big Stick at Stem-Cell Researchers Thu, 29 Jun 2006 03:37:58 +0000 http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/archives/268#comment-11008 [...] Roman Catholic Cardinal Francis Trujillo has announced that anyone who participates in research that involves the destruction of an embryo - specifically, stem-cell researchers - is liable to excommunication from the Catholic church. This is apparently an expansion of existing Catholic doctrine regarding abortion providers. (Trujillo, you may recall, is the clown who released a lengthy report, quickly demonstrated to be scientifically false in almost every respect, concluding that condoms do not help prevent AIDS.)How much impact the excommunication policy will have remains to be seen. Trujillo’s justification for it, however, is more worrisome. [...] [...] Roman Catholic Cardinal Francis Trujillo has announced that anyone who participates in research that involves the destruction of an embryo – specifically, stem-cell researchers – is liable to excommunication from the Catholic church. This is apparently an expansion of existing Catholic doctrine regarding abortion providers. (Trujillo, you may recall, is the clown who released a lengthy report, quickly demonstrated to be scientifically false in almost every respect, concluding that condoms do not help prevent AIDS.)How much impact the excommunication policy will have remains to be seen. Trujillo’s justification for it, however, is more worrisome. [...]

]]> http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2006/04/21/vatican-maintains-unconscionable-false-stance-against-condoms/comment-page-1/#comment-9058 Sufficient Scruples » Blog Archive » Freaking Freely on the Far Right Wed, 24 May 2006 04:30:04 +0000 http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/archives/268#comment-9058 [...] One persistent feature of right-wing objections to fairly ordinary healthcare procedures is the unapologetic ignorance they display. The bizarre distortions of the debate over intact dilation and extraction abortions were just the most effective such example; from the Catholic Church’s completely false characterizations of condoms as a bulwark against AIDS, to the familiarly bogus claims about “the abortion/breast cancer link”, “post-abortion trauma syndrome”, and most recently James Dobson’s non-existent “detachment and differentiation” as the cause of homosexuality, the far right seems to suffer from a persistent and universal failure of reading comprehension, as well as a gasping lack of basic factual knowledge. And, worse, the use it to their advantage, often it seems deliberately.The latest example is Pamela Hennessy’s screed against an end-of-life-decisionmaking bill in New Hampshire. She grounds a panicky call to arms on an obvious misreading of the plain text of the bill, then somehow manages to paint “ethics” itself as some sort of conspiracy (of the Party of Death, no doubt). You rarely see that much weirdness appended to one paragraph of legal text, but Hennessy - for years a Schiavo Foundation spokesperson (ahhh . . . now I understand . . .!) - manages it. [...] [...] One persistent feature of right-wing objections to fairly ordinary healthcare procedures is the unapologetic ignorance they display. The bizarre distortions of the debate over intact dilation and extraction abortions were just the most effective such example; from the Catholic Church’s completely false characterizations of condoms as a bulwark against AIDS, to the familiarly bogus claims about “the abortion/breast cancer link”, “post-abortion trauma syndrome”, and most recently James Dobson’s non-existent “detachment and differentiation” as the cause of homosexuality, the far right seems to suffer from a persistent and universal failure of reading comprehension, as well as a gasping lack of basic factual knowledge. And, worse, the use it to their advantage, often it seems deliberately.The latest example is Pamela Hennessy’s screed against an end-of-life-decisionmaking bill in New Hampshire. She grounds a panicky call to arms on an obvious misreading of the plain text of the bill, then somehow manages to paint “ethics” itself as some sort of conspiracy (of the Party of Death, no doubt). You rarely see that much weirdness appended to one paragraph of legal text, but Hennessy – for years a Schiavo Foundation spokesperson (ahhh . . . now I understand . . .!) – manages it. [...]

]]> http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/2006/04/21/vatican-maintains-unconscionable-false-stance-against-condoms/comment-page-1/#comment-7672 tigtog Wed, 26 Apr 2006 02:16:17 +0000 http://sufficientscruples.com/blog/archives/268#comment-7672 And of course we're now seeing fundy abstinence programs for teens touting the Vatican condom misinformation as if it was true (not that they'd take the Vatican stance on anything else as meaningful or binding in any way, but on this matter they're singing from the same hymnbook). And of course we’re now seeing fundy abstinence programs for teens touting the Vatican condom misinformation as if it was true (not that they’d take the Vatican stance on anything else as meaningful or binding in any way, but on this matter they’re singing from the same hymnbook).

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