{"id":1907,"date":"2009-06-30T18:13:05","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T22:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2009-06-30T18:28:02","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T22:28:02","slug":"principled-stands-on-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2009\/06\/30\/principled-stands-on-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Principled Stands on Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"Girard's Letter To The Editor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegram.com\/article\/20090622\/LETTERS\/906220338\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to the letter that Joseph Girard wrote to the editor of the Worcester Telegram &amp; Gazette. They headlined the letter with the title, &#8220;Pro-life is about human rights&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Follow <a title=\"My response letter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegram.com\/article\/20090630\/LETTERS\/906300361\/1055\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to the letter to the editor that I wrote in response or read below.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I applaud a letter writer from Worcester who takes a principled stand without exception for the human rights of the fetus (Telegram &amp; Gazette, June 22). I presume that he would also stand by the principle, without exception, for the human rights of women.<\/p>\n<p>What I would like the antiabortionists to explain is how they remain true to both principles, without exception, when there is a conflict between the two. Clearly an exception has to be made on one or both principles.<\/p>\n<p>Only when antiabortionists recognize this conflict can there be any point in having a discussion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Follow <a title=\"Dianne Williamson column\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegram.com\/article\/20090531\/COLUMN01\/905310398\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to the Dianne Williamson column titled, &#8220;Another rigor of priesthood ends in scandal&#8221; . This is the one that Joseph Girard says prompted his letter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to the letter that Joseph Girard wrote to the editor of the Worcester Telegram &amp; Gazette. They headlined the letter with the title, &#8220;Pro-life is about human rights&#8221; Follow this link to the letter to the editor that I wrote in response or read below. I applaud a letter writer from Worcester [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1907"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1909,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907\/revisions\/1909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}