{"id":21358,"date":"2015-07-30T10:20:13","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T14:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=21358"},"modified":"2015-07-30T10:20:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T14:20:13","slug":"catholic-nun-explains-pro-life-in-a-way-that-will-stun-many-especially-republican-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/07\/30\/catholic-nun-explains-pro-life-in-a-way-that-will-stun-many-especially-republican-lawmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Nun Explains Pro-Life In A Way That Will Stun Many (Especially Republican Lawmakers)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>T<em>he Daily Kos<\/em> has the post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2015\/07\/30\/1407166\/-Catholic-Nun-Explains-Pro-Life-In-A-Way-That-May-Stun-The-Masses?detail=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Daily Kos post\">Catholic Nun Explains Pro-Life In A Way That Will Stun Many (Especially Republican Lawmakers)<\/a>.  The post highlights this quote from Sister Joan Chittister, O.S.B.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI do not believe that just because you&#8217;re opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. And why would I think that you don&#8217;t? Because you don&#8217;t want any tax money to go there. That&#8217;s not pro-life. That&#8217;s pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This expresses what many of us who are both pro-life and pro-choice feel.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Marden Seavey for posting the link to this article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Mard101\/posts\/10206849222890891\" target=\"_blank\">his Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Kos has the post Catholic Nun Explains Pro-Life In A Way That Will Stun Many (Especially Republican Lawmakers). The post highlights this quote from Sister Joan Chittister, O.S.B. I do not believe that just because you&#8217;re opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality [&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-21358","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\/21358","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=21358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21359,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21358\/revisions\/21359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}