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Pollitt, Katha | April 1, 2002 issue

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This article presents the author's views on the legal issues related to child molestation. According to the author the bishops who presided over the priestly pedophilia in the Catholic Church's ever-expanding scandal are not likely to follow Boston's Father John Geoghan, convicted and sentenced to nine to ten years and facing more charges, into the dock, much less the cellblock. After all, they are men of God. Thanks to God, the Catholic Church can run a healthcare system, 10 percent of private hospitals in the U.S. that refuses to practice modem medicine where women are concerned. Not just no abortion but also no birth control, no emergency contraception for rape victims, no sterilization, no in vitro fertilization.

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PEDOPHILIA -- Law & legislation; GEOGHAN, John; CHURCH work with women -- Catholic Church; INFERTILITY; BIRTH control; RAPE victims
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