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- From: margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis)
- Subject: Re: PAS or Post Abortion Syndrome
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- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.003330.27343@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 00:33:30 GMT
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- In <1993Jan22.184630.14470@noao.edu> forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
- >From article by margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis):
- >> In garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin) writes:
- >>>In article forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
- >>>#
- >>>#Yes, of course. Why else would programs like "Project Rachel" be growing
- >>>#so large so quickly?
- >>>
- >>>How large? How quickly?
- >>>
- >>>Oh, sorry, I forgot, this is Suzanne. She won't have any actual
- >>>data to back up her claims. Never mind.
- >>
- >> And more importantly, what *is* "Project Rachel"? I thought it was a program
- >> to bring women back into the church who had been excommunicated for having
- >> abortions. If so, then if it's growing quickly that simply means that there
- >> are a lot of Catholic women who have abortions but want to stay part of the
- >> church, and has nothing to do with the mythical "Post Abortion Syndrome".
- >> (If I'm confusing "Project Rachel" with something else, then please
- >> enlighten me.)
- >
- >All that a woman who has had an abortion need do to return to the Church
- >is to truly repent, to confess to her bishop (or in some diocese her priest),
- >and to receive Christ's absolution. Project Rachel of course includes this,
- >but it is also a program of counselling to help women deal with their grief
- >for their lost child. If that grief weren't all too real, there would be no
- >Project Rachel.
-
- Sounds more like if the church wasn't anti-abortion, there would be no
- Project Rachel.
- --
- Larry Margolis, MARGOLI@YKTVMV (Bitnet), margoli@watson.IBM.com (Internet)
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