Survey on life

You really need to read this whole post at A Funny Thing Happened. But here is a part:

A few months ago I conducted a very unscientific but interesting survey at our local hospital's women's clinic.The 22 interviewed included doctors, residents in OB-GYN training, nurses in OB-GYN, medical students, residents in Internal Medicine training and medical techs in OB-GYN.

6 out of 11 actively practicing Catholics call themselves pro-choice
5 out of 11 actively practicing Catholics participated in abortions, 3 under pressure and 2 willingly
13 of the 13 Catholics approve of or prescribe birth control, one under pressure
11 of the 13 Catholics say abortion should be legal (2 feel that abortion should be limited only to risk of mother’s death or fetal abnormalities; 1 is against legalization but feels there should be “room for discussion”)

As you can see, not all of the 22 participants were Catholic (and not all practicing), but I clipped the Catholic summary only for this post. Quite a sad state of affairs. Poor catechesis? Pressures of secular society and in particular the medical profession? I don't know.

Read the rest here on your own. Some surprising results on both sides of life.

On a related note, for the medical profession and catechesis, yesterday Fox News carried a story, headline: Pope Tells Pharmacists Not to Dispense Drugs With 'Immoral Purposes' yesterday. Here's the main points:

In a speech to participants at the 25th International Congress of Catholic Pharmacists, Benedict said that conscientious objection was a right that must be recognized by the pharmaceutical profession.

Such objector status, he said, would "enable them not to collaborate directly or indirectly in supplying products that have clearly immoral purposes such as, for example, abortion or euthanasia."

In his speech, the pope also said that pharmacists have an educational role toward patients so that drugs are used in a morally and ethically correct way.

Read the whole story here.

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