The courts do not have a right to force parents to kill their children<\/a>. \u00a0That\u2019s good. \u00a0After the initial response from the Vatican, Pope Francis reversed course and chose not to side with the courts. \u00a0Which is good. \u00a0The whole notion of \u2018consistent life ethic\u2019 would have gone out the window if the Vatican\u2019s initial statement about\u00a0the case would have remained.<\/p>\nThat Donald Trump stepped in is nice, though what the head of state can do in this situation, I don\u2019t know. \u00a0It\u2019s just good that more and more people seem to be waking up to the problems in this case. \u00a0At the end of the day, we don\u2019t want the State forcing parents to terminate the life of their children.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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