{"id":45510,"date":"2014-08-07T02:35:58","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T02:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_vatican_abandoned_down_syndrome_baby_is_victim_of_throwaway_culture\/"},"modified":"2014-08-07T02:35:58","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T02:35:58","slug":"rns_vatican_abandoned_down_syndrome_baby_is_victim_of_throwaway_culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45510","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Vatican: Abandoned Down syndrome baby is victim of \u201d\u02dcthrowaway\u2019 culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe should not be surprised if parents who have ordered a baby and rented a woman\u2019s womb refuse it at birth if it is not healthy and perfect,\u201d\u009d said an article published in the Vatican\u2019s semiofficial newspaper, L\u2019Osservatore Romano.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact if a child becomes a product to buy, it is obvious that as with any acquisition it must meet with the buyer\u2019s approval.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The strongly worded commentary was written by prominent Catholic feminist and regular contributor Lucetta Scaraffia, who argued the child\u2019s rejection was to be expected in the \u201cexplosive mix\u201d\u009d of consumerism combined with a \u201cthrowaway culture.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2014\/08\/06\/vatican-abandoned-downs-syndrome-baby-australia-thailand-pattaramon-chanbua\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe should not be surprised if parents who have ordered a baby and rented a woman\u2019s womb refuse it at birth if it is not healthy and perfect,\u201d\u009d said an article published in the Vatican\u2019s semiofficial newspaper, L\u2019Osservatore Romano. \u201cIn<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45510\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,175,101,582,589,149,168,104,114,96,98,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-children","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-marriage-family","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}