How does Plan B (the morning after pill) really work? here
What is the Catholic position on offering it after rape? here
How would a Catholic hospital handle an ectopic (tubal) pregnancy? here
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Hard cases (pregnancy is dangerous or life-threatening to mother)
- Mother has ectopic pregnancy (in fallopian tube). May doctors perform surgery to remove fallopian tube? salpingostomy vs. salpingectomy (see link above)
- Ectopic pregnancy outside fallopian tube--may doctors remove?
- Father likely to kill daughter if pregnancy is found out. May doctors perform abortion?
- Mother has been raped. May she take "Plan B" at hospital?
- Direct, intentional killing of innocent is wrong. "This moral norm excludes even the choice to kill one innocent person as a means of saving another or others, or even as a means of preventing the murder of another or others." (p. 20)
- Mother and fetus are equals, with same right to life
- Fetus is not an "intruder, predator, or aggressor" (pg. 20) (So abortion is not "self defense.")
- Acts that bring about death can be permissible, if death is only a foreseeable side-effect of a procedure; doctor must not intentionally kill one individual as a means of saving another.
- Not all indirect (i.e. unintended) killings are permissible--often there is a better way.
THOMSON POWERPOINT
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