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Old 05-21-2010, 03:07 PM
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Originally Posted by AOII Angel View Post
Medical ethics are based on an understanding of the medical issues. The problem with slapping a basic religious tenet onto a complex medical issue is that it becomes arbitrary as I have easily pointed out. In the end, people terminate their ectopic pregnancies and just fall in under the "all ectopics are the same" mentality that protects them from being excommunicated. In actuality, they are no different than the women in the case we are discussing from the beginning. I understand that the church has to evolve over time, but using Thomas Aquinas to determine how to categorize medical therapies that didn't exist during his time is strange. How about we have some current church leaders put in some thought on the matter?
Well the modern Catholic Church has been known for a while being rather hide bound. And there is a difference I think between a standard tubal pregnancy and this case. But you never answered our question. You said that medical ethics are all about medical decisions? Then explain why my friends can't get their tubes tied for instance.
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