I do know enough history to understand why that would not have been wise in Spain of the early 60s. You know, I can't understand it either.

I just came from reading an AP news story about a Catholic hospital in California that refused, for religion reasons, to provide an abortion for a woman whose health was in extreme danger. Her doctor even told her if she tried to drive a couple hundred miles to the next nearest major trauma center, she would likely hemorrhage, bleed out, and die.

But Catholic policy dictated that the doctor could not save her, because she wasn't close enough to death yet.

Because she wasn't close enough to death yet.

She got herself medically transferred to a closer, but much less capable hospital, where she received her medically necessary abortion, and things went okay - though they very well might not have if complications had arisen.

Fortunately, given the politics of California today, the state government will be going after the hospital with the full force of the law to ensure that they don't (and that other hospitals don't) repeat that moral abomination.

I have a very hard time, like you, understanding how anyone puts up with the sickening evil of the Catholic Church.