{"id":3579,"date":"2011-01-17T13:47:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T18:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3579"},"modified":"2011-01-18T17:50:50","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T22:50:50","slug":"bishop-lavalley-describes-planned-parenthood-as-culture-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/01\/17\/bishop-lavalley-describes-planned-parenthood-as-culture-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop LaValley describes Planned Parenthood as &#8220;culture of death&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x1947785761\/Bishop-leads-annual-Plattsburgh-anti-abortion-demonstration\">Plattsburgh Press-Republican<\/a> is reporting that Bishop Terry LaValley, head of the Diocese of Ogdensburg,\u00a0 is urging followers to use love and prayer and not &#8220;vitriolic language&#8221; to oppose abortion rights groups such as Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the Tucson shooting, everyone is at least paying lip service to the idea of moderating the tone of these culture war debates.<\/p>\n<p>But in comments over the weekend, the Bishop also accused Planned Parenthood and other pro-choice groups of being part of &#8220;a culture of death.&#8221;\u00a0 That&#8217;s pretty tough stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Are those two rhetorical flourishes contradictory?\u00a0 Planned Parenthood seems to think so.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman argued that an anti-abortion march held over the weekend &#8220;increases the violent, ugly rhetoric around this issue because of the hateful signs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So what do you think?\u00a0 Is there a way Roman Catholic and other anti-abortion activists can get their message across without labeling their opponents as being part of a death culture?<\/p>\n<p>Or is this simply blunt, honest language in a debate where people often talk in euphemisms?<\/p>\n<p>(In your comments, remember on this topic to keep your language and your approach civil.\u00a0 Abortion is hard to talk intelligently about, so think twice before hitting the Send button.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Plattsburgh Press-Republican is reporting that Bishop Terry LaValley, head of the Diocese of Ogdensburg,\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4803,20,5590],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3580,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions\/3580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}