Black List?

Maria Casado, holder of the UNESCO Chair of Bioethics, at the University of Barcelona: she likes compiling lists

Here's an interesting article from Spain.  It seems experts in UNESCO are looking to have a list compiled of all doctors who refuse, on grounds of conscience, to perform abortions.  They say it is to guarantee the health of women - the usual mantra.  For some strange reason the Nazi's lists of Jewish Germans comes to mind.  I remember that scene in Schindler's List, when Jewish individuals were being booked into the ghetto in Krakow and being ticked off a list.

Anyway, here's an interesting quotation from the article, referencing the intentions of the lady, Maria Casado, who holds the UNESCO chair of Bioethics at the University of Barcelona, who wants to compile this list:

[Maria] Casado said that while she upholds doctors’ rights to conscientious objection, the main idea is to “respect rights in a democratic society” – women’s rights as well as doctors’ rights. This means conscientious objection should have a clear framework: doctors should make their position known before entering an operating theater, she said, and should not be allowed to exert their right when “the woman’s health is in danger.”

All very democratic and fair, isn't it?  It really is an unfortunate thing that little babies are being torn apart and killed in the midst of all this.  Or is that being unfair to Ms Casado and her friends?

Of course, there is another list being compiled: it's called the Book of Life, and we are told that those who commit evils such as abortion, will not feature on that list - they are on another list entirely.  I wonder if Ms Casado and all those who have an undemocratic power over the lives of vulnerable children realise that as they labour to maintain the facade of respectability covering the holocaust of the unborn, that the day will come (perhaps sooner that they think) when they will have to stand before God with the blood of the innocent on their hands and try and justify their actions?  They will do so before a vast crowd of accusers - the Souls of very children who perished in their clinics.

Perhaps a brief reflection on that will distract them from black listing men and women of good conscience who strive, in obedience to their sacred oath as physicians, to protect life and not destroy it.

In other, not entirely unrelated news, prosecutors in Philadelphia have submitted a request to Montgomery County Coroner to have the body of the late Cardinal Bevilaqua exhumed and examined to see if he had been murdered.  He was due to give evidence at a child endangerment trial next month, but the grim reaper turned up unexpectedly.  They fear that the reaper may have been human rather than preternatural.  (Dan Brown's Bank Manager must getting excited!).  

The poor Cardinal was quite ill.  Though he was judged to be fit to testify, it seems he was suffering from demenia and cancer.  The reason for the suspicions: "The timing "struck many of us as odd, as peculiar," the district attorney said."   Yes, death can come unexpectedly.   A timely reminder to all of us.