I'm Not Sure What to Think of This...

Catholic hospitals in Connecticut will now offer Plan B to all alleged rape victims treated there...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21018908/

Now, I had *thought* that Catholic teaching in general was stridently pro-life. But suddenly, juuuust before a Connecticut law is scheduled to make Plan B availability for rape victims mandatory, VOILA! They slightly change their morality to suit the situation.

I do understand that even in conservative Christian circles there is debate on whether abortion is morally acceptable for rape victims. I know that Pat Robertson, for one, has spoken against laws that would, in his words, force the rape victim to then bear the rapist's child. However, when you've taken a stand on something, as the Catholic church has, on the ABSOLUTE sanctity of human life from the moment of conception, and pitch those tenets in the trash when it becomes inconvenient, well... I would just say that one wonders how free from moral relativism such a church would be.

Do you know how they're trying to wiggle out of this one? Oh, well, we'll give the Plan B and assume that we've done it before that sperm reaches the egg. Then we're not morally culpable.

Excuse me, I believe anyone participating in this would be morally culpable. Medically inducing a woman to shed the lining of her uterus in that situation would be akin to forcing all the breathable air out of a locked room where people may or may not be (let's say we didn't check first). It sure eliminates any potential for life, doesn't it??

Surely there would have to be more humane ways to truly help women who have been violated. Killing HER innocent child shouldn't be one of them. I think there are times when violating the law is a moral necessity. Certainly the women in question have been violated enough without the "two wrongs make a right" mentality.