>As the self-appointed little TIPS apologist, I thought perhaps there was
>something more defensible in the church and the parents than our anti-
>religious psychological society *seemed* willing to search for.

I still see no support for the claim that 'Psychology' as a whole is
anti-religion.
I can see a case made that it is anti a particular type of religion.


>Since I cannot fathom why the parents or the church saw some religious
>rationale for preventing medical intervention, I assumed there was something
>missing here that would take away the black eye of religion.

I suspect that the argument would be that the medical approach would make
it more likely that one child would survive than the other (although that
appears to be true a priori), whereas the approach advocated by the church
would require a miracle (highly unlikely and inexplicable event) for the
survival of _either_ child.

* PAUL K. BRANDON               [EMAIL PROTECTED]  *
* Psychology Dept       Minnesota State University, Mankato *
* 23 Armstrong Hall, Mankato, MN 56001      ph 507-389-6217 *
*    http://www.mankato.msus.edu/dept/psych/welcome.html    *



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