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Guys,

i just came across this bbc story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6952558.stm

so what does the church recommend women do who carry the child of a rapist, or are forced to become pregnant at gunpoint? i can see it's not fair to the child, but it ain't fair on the mother, either. what to do?

A question for the Catholics among us...

I read in a review of Ratzinger's new book (link) that:

"After finishing a 400-page manuscript last fall, Pope Benedict XVI decided to publish his argument under his given name, as a theologian-scholar rather than as the church's "infallible" voice on doctrine. "Everyone is free, then," he writes, "to contradict me."