Washington D.C., May 23, 2005 / 22:00 pm
In the latest edition of the on-line magazine, ‘The Window’, editor Deal Hudson challenges the thinking of many Catholic politicians who support issues like abortion and embryonic stem cell research, showing readers how to tackle these debates themselves.
Hudson says that the crux of the problem lay in semantics. He cites Massachusetts State Representative Dan Bosley, a Catholic, who recently affirmed that while he believes that life begins at conception, he thinks that, “Conception begins the fourteenth day after fertilization. It also cannot begin until implantation."
Hudson points out that this confusion of terminology is in fact, in conflict with Catholic Church teaching.
“The United States Conference of Bishops”, he writes, “has warned us about the ‘manipulation of terms.’”