Joe Biden's answer about abortion last night was interesting. And by interesting I mean incoherent. Let me see if I can follow his logic.
1) The Catholic Church says abortion is wrong because a baby is a human life and all life must be protected no matter what. Biden said, as a Catholic, he agrees with this teaching.
2) Biden then goes on to say that although by his own admission an unborn child is a human being, it doesn't warrant legal protection because the government can't "tell a woman what to do with her own body".
(... Wait a minute Joey, you just said you agree with the Church's stance that a "fetus" is a human life. If it's a human life that means it isn't a part of the woman's body, but a separate body altogether. Did you mean that a woman can't be required to care for another life because this constitutes an undue burden on her own personal sovereignty? If so, will you soon push for infanticide to be legalized? No? Why not? Why should a woman be forced to center her whole life around some infant intruder who relies on her for literally everything? A one day old baby is just as dependent on its mother as an unborn baby. Why does one have a right to enslave its mother under its tiny tyrannical thumb and the other doesn't?)
Then to top it all off Biden goes on to point 3:
3) The Church's "social doctrine" calls him to force rich people to care for poor people through taxation.
(... Wait a second Chuckles, you're saying your Catholic faith encourages you to FORCE "the wealthy" to care for "the poor", but it doesn't encourage you to force mothers to care for their own children? So when it comes to abortion you're Mr. Small Government but when it comes to everything else you're absolutely convinced of the State's responsibility to be utterly and completely involved.)
Can you make a chart or something to explain how the responsibility/non-responsibility thing works? You take my money every week because I'm responsible for people on welfare and the elderly on Medicare and Pakistani villagers on foreign aid (the ones you haven't incinerated via drone strike), but if I conceive a child I'm not responsible for it at all? Fascinating. Seems like there might be a more direct, less complicated approach. But what do I know?
1) The Catholic Church says abortion is wrong because a baby is a human life and all life must be protected no matter what. Biden said, as a Catholic, he agrees with this teaching.
2) Biden then goes on to say that although by his own admission an unborn child is a human being, it doesn't warrant legal protection because the government can't "tell a woman what to do with her own body".
(... Wait a minute Joey, you just said you agree with the Church's stance that a "fetus" is a human life. If it's a human life that means it isn't a part of the woman's body, but a separate body altogether. Did you mean that a woman can't be required to care for another life because this constitutes an undue burden on her own personal sovereignty? If so, will you soon push for infanticide to be legalized? No? Why not? Why should a woman be forced to center her whole life around some infant intruder who relies on her for literally everything? A one day old baby is just as dependent on its mother as an unborn baby. Why does one have a right to enslave its mother under its tiny tyrannical thumb and the other doesn't?)
Then to top it all off Biden goes on to point 3:
3) The Church's "social doctrine" calls him to force rich people to care for poor people through taxation.
(... Wait a second Chuckles, you're saying your Catholic faith encourages you to FORCE "the wealthy" to care for "the poor", but it doesn't encourage you to force mothers to care for their own children? So when it comes to abortion you're Mr. Small Government but when it comes to everything else you're absolutely convinced of the State's responsibility to be utterly and completely involved.)
Can you make a chart or something to explain how the responsibility/
