>>Catholic hospitals in the northeastern part of the U.S. wanted to deny anesthesia to unwed mothers in the 1960's (while having no problem with giving it to married mothers) ....I'm sure in their view they had a perfectly good reason "in their eyes". Silly me.
As I said, it's easy to issue polemics against religion. Good example, thanks.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
