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Church’s concern for the unborn not genuine

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Posted  Wednesday, August 4  2010 at  17:24

Betty Caplan makes good points (DN, August 3). I have often suspected that the Church’s concern for the unborn arises from a fear that if we (the population) do not reproduce at some desired rate, church membership and attendance could be severely affected.

The Catholic Church in Europe, for instance, is having big problems getting new priests. Human progress has always had a negative impact on religion.

It is thus no surprise that the clergy would oppose the idea of women taking charge of their reproductive health. Ironically, many rural women share the ideas of the Church.

JOHN B. MUINDI, Nairobi


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  1. Submitted by haile

    the church and the government should not interfere with a womans right of choice.If a woman is not comfortable with pregnancy,then she should be ready to remove it.After all,poverty and high population and abortions are linked

    Posted  August 05, 2010 12:08 AM  
  2. Submitted by ngugawanjiku

    This is very shallow indeed. Do you not wonder then why the rural women share the same ideas with the Church?This is for the same reason they are able to bring up the good families they do without the urban poisoning of drugs,abortions,murder, robberies, fraud etc.

    Posted  August 04, 2010 07:54 PM