{"id":6566,"date":"2009-05-29T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T08:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/05\/utterly-utterly-despicable\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T14:59:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T21:59:25","slug":"utterly-utterly-despicable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/05\/utterly-utterly-despicable.html","title":{"rendered":"Utterly, Utterly Despicable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Predictably, the Left is now using opposition to torture as a fig leaf for promotion of abortion<\/a>. It turns out that<\/p>\n

The United Nations (UN) committee charged with monitoring compliance with the Convention Against Torture has declared that Nicaragua\u2019s full protection of fetal life violates the country\u2019s obligations under the Convention.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You read that right. According to the pro-abort ideologues at the UN, failure to legalize abortion constitutes \u201ctorture\u201d.<\/p>\n

A classic example of Lewis\u2019 observation that \u201copposite evils, so far from balancing, aggravate each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

Monstrous.<\/p>\n

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