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“Humanist was witness for Morgentaler”

September 7, 2012 by Andrea Mrozek 2 Comments

I won’t speak ill of the dead. Be aware that this sort of hagiography for a mere friend of Morgentaler will be multiplied 1000 fold when the man himself dies. Be further aware that the press will ring with the sounds of how this was done for “women’s rights.”

 

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  1. Melissa says

    September 7, 2012 at 9:45 pm

    The sexual therapy he did with couples at McMaster involved the idea that religion in general and Christianity specifically were detrimental to people’s health because of guilt,”

    Gosh, this is the meme that is the flavour of the month, year, decade, isn’t it? Imagine, a 2000-plus year philosophy, teaching that we are all part of the same body, and what one member of that body does has effects on every other member of that body, and therefore you can’t merely live for yourself, might raise some guilt in the consciences of people who act selfishly.

    But we live in a post-Christian world now. Is there really less guilt now then there was then?

    Morgentaler wouldn’t perform abortions after about sixteen weeks. Does anyone else wonder if these grand old’ patriarchs of the abortion movement ever look at the Pandora’s Box that they opened and think that maybe, just maybe we’ve gone too far?

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  2. Andrea Mrozek says

    September 8, 2012 at 8:02 am

    Good question: Is there less guilt now than there was then? I am interested in the philosophical side to that. What happens when we make negative actions into positive ones and suppress guilt? how does it get channelled elsewhere? what does that look like in society?

    There is probably good guilt and bad/unnecessary guilt (ie do think organized religion is guilty in some regards of nurturing an inappropriate guilt…) But organized religion can’t overturn God’s laws/human nature/the human conscience and so even so, certain actions we are told today should involve no guilt whatsoever (abortion) still do.

    these are things there will never be “a study” about.

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