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Originally Posted by AOII Angel
By calling it a "salpingectomy", catholics have given themselves a little out, like, oh, I'm not really terminating the pregnancy, I'm just cutting out the fallopian tube. No, you are cutting out the misplaced (ectopic) pregnancy that is growing into the wrong structures and threatening to KILL the mother.
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The bolded is, as I understand it, a mischaracterization of the Catholic perspective. There's no "we're not really terminating the pregnancy" going on; everyone knows full well that will happen. But they are not engaging in the procedure for the purpose of terminating the pregnancy; they're doing for the purpose of saving a life, even though termination of the pregnancy will be an unavoidable consequence.