Posted on 09/25/2012 2:08:24 PM PDT by NYer
Ping!
What say you Cardinal? No need for a pill unless there is pillage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9vQt6IXXaM
This needs to go around again and again for the next two months.
Turning them into little Sandra Flukes is so much easier than teaching them to be decent, moral young ladies. That is so passe.
Well, Cardinal Tim, tell your flock to stop voting for Democrats, and you’ll see less of this indignity.
>unless the parents opt out of the program after receiving a school letter informing them of the new policy.
If I’m reading this correctly, the parents can refuse their female child receiving this pill.
That seems backwards. Perhaps it should be given only if their parent(s) opt in?
There's your answer. Quote from Dolan's article.
If Im reading this correctly, the parents can refuse their female child receiving this pill.
Yes, if the girl gives the no-permission slip to the parent to sign, and returns it to the school. If she “forgets”, she is on the list of girls who can receive the pill.
My brain is imagining the Law Firm Ads on tv in another ten years: If you have ever received or think you have received this pill from a school nurse, please contact Slip & Fall, LLC.
Bob Dolan is right!
Strange how you could consider his statements as an endorsement of Obama. Romneybots see an enemy behind any reasoned thought.
If you're a toxic a**hole who absolutely MUST find fault in any and all things Catholic, I suppose an utterly moronic question like this would make some type of sense.
The rest of us - you know, people capable of linear thought - understand that Dolan is very much against 14 years olds (male and female) having sexual intercourse.
One of the arguments against sex before marriage was possible pregnancy and/or disease. A practical argument but not a moral one since both may be prevented with care.
So is sex before marriage primarily a moral issue or just a matter of “virtue and responsibility” that might be met by engaging in so-called “safe sex”?
If the first then males must be brought into the picture instead of telling some teenage girl, “Don't get pregnant” as if it's something she does all by herself or is solely responsible for.
If the latter then science will determine morality by how well it prevents a few of the results of immoral acts.
Dolan says, “”Abstinence before marriage is the only sure way to avoid pregnancy and disease, while also allowing minors to practice virtue and responsibility”.
The young say using reliable birth control meets his criteria without the abstinence. And since Dolan nor any other priest will penalize fornication what is he really saying except that abstinence works better than birth control (not in question).
On what basis is he making an argument against sex before marriage? Primarily the use of birth control as immoral rather than fornication as being immoral.
And it's failing.
Bring back the fire & brimstone.
Um.. hello?
We’re talking about a school district that uses a sex positive sex ed starting at 11. There is NO opt out.
They want these kids having sex and not buying soda
My thoughts, exactly, AFTR!!
Thanks for expressing the REAL problem!
Priests and pastors can no longer stand by behind their tax shelters-they need to be telling their congregations the truth.
Oh, I think it’s coming...
They would never dare in a million years to pass out such powerful and body damaging drugs to young males.
This is the real sexism.
A simple question is relevant here: should the 14 , 15, 16, or 17 yr old become pregnant and NOT take the “morning after pill” or other “emergency contraception,” will the school take “other measures to end the pregnancy?”
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