Awwww....

Calvin and Hobbes.

This makes me sick

Because she valued her unborn child more than her life, her other children went motherless. What sort of thing is that to do to your family, to tell them that somebody else who may not even live is more important than they are, that you love their little brother or sister more than you love them, that your god doesn't value your life enough to keep you with them? And now she's considered a saint. I'm sure this is a great comfort to her children now that they're grown up without her.

It's also nonsense, really. Traditionally, the fetus wasn't considered to have a soul until it moved... it "quickened" and quick in this sense means "live". So because she took an exceedingly strict view of life, she died. And the pope says she gave a "great sacrifice", but she didn't. She's dead. If she's right, she's happy in heaven, and if she's not, she's just dead. Her children and her husband, her friends and family, those are the ones who sacrificed for her.

I knew if I waited, somebody would print it

Article in the Times about prisons

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