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Catholic Church allows abortion (in certain Circumstances)

  • 13-12-2009 5:22pm
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    I find the whole debate on abortion very interesting. According to teaching of Catholic church if a pregnant womans life is a risk you can morally treat her to save her life, even if this means one of the effects is that the pregnacy is aborted. (intention being to safe her life not the abortion). For example if a mother has an ectopic pregnancy in Ireland, she will be treated in Ireland and the pregnacy will be terminated here, as allowing the pregancy to continue would probably kill the Mother and Child. Many consultants already do this procedure in Ireland. (any others to safe the life of the mother). So women don't need to travel to england to get treated. I know some women have not taken cancer treatment to save the life of their baby, but morally you can allow treatment to save the mother even if this means the pregnancy could end. If the intention is to save the life of the Mother then treatment can, should, and IS done in Ireland today (and there have been many such procedures). Hospitals and consultants don't class them as abortions because the procedure was not to abort the baby but to save the life of the mother. The Catholic Church fully supports this.
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