{"id":2767,"date":"2012-02-11T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/02\/a-biology-lesson-from-the-good-katherine-ragsdale.html"},"modified":"2012-02-11T17:48:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T17:48:00","slug":"a-biology-lesson-from-the-good-katherine-ragsdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/02\/a-biology-lesson-from-the-good-katherine-ragsdale.html","title":{"rendered":"A biology lesson from the good Katherine Ragsdale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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President of the Episcopal Divinity School<\/a>. A diseased organ:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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A diseased lung<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Not a diseased organ:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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A good, healthy lung<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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A diseased organ:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Our youngest, about two months before his birth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Not a diseased organ (or so we assume):<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Our youngest son, less than a year after his birth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

This from her recent appearance on FOX News<\/a>, in which she was asked to clarify how an abortion can be a blessing*.\u00a0 Easy, she explained.\u00a0 If a person has a heart attack or other diseased organ, it is dealt with and we celebrate.\u00a0 If a woman\u2019s health is in question, the diseased organ is dealt with and we celebrate.\u00a0 Of course in most cases, doctors will fight like a mad dog to avoid actually removing an organ unless there are no other options, but apparently since it\u2019s only a pre-born baby (see third picture above), it\u2019s no big deal.\u00a0 Actually, the health of the baby wasn\u2019t even brought up in Ms. Ragsdale\u2019s explanation. <\/p>\n

If you hear this and other pontificating by the post-liberal Left, and you begin entertaining images of:<\/p>\n

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Don\u2019t worry.\u00a0 It shows that either you\u2019ve done your homework, or you still have not squelched that divine spark within yourself that has produce a spirit and heart that screams for justice at the thought of such horror.\u00a0 Maybe both!\u00a0 May God soften the hearts of those who lay the bedrock for future genocides, and protect the innocent from their machinations.\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n

*At about the 5:00 mark, the issue comes up of her idea about \u2018abortion as blessing.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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