FIG LEAVES AND FALSEHOODS

The exposé of Planned Parenthood engineered by Live Action has not only disclosed some illegal and immoral operations of Planned Parenthood, it has also revealed sharp divergences in the pro-life movement and Catholic community about what counts as lying. [...] when we are thinking about reality we are forming concepts in our minds of the speech that God has truthfully uttered in creation, and when we communicate by word or deed, we are obliged to seek to make our speech true to God's speech.\n Eventually ethicists succeeded in arguing that the approval of the donation of skin grafts and blood indicates that some of our bodily elements do have an ordination beyond ourselves and that the principle of charity justifies the donation of nonvital organs from living donors.