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Originally Posted by Drolefille
Unless you're at a Catholic hospital I suppose. It is all playing the word games, but you're enacting a treatment - surgical - that happens to terminate the pregnancy vs terminating the pregnancy directly.
Semantics? yes. But it fits their world view.
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So the fact that the fetus is in the wrong place and that organ is removed means that mother gets to live. Yay for her! I wonder if they'd performed a hysterectomy on the women in the OP if this would be okay too?
I guess I still don't see the difference. In an ectopic pregnancy, the intent is still to terminate the pregnancy. The end result is it saves the mother's life. In the case we are discussing currently, the intent was to terminate the pregnancy. The end result is to save the mother's life. How are these different in any way? In both cases, the fetus is not viable to term. In both cases, terminating the pregnancy will save the life of the mother. In both cases, the pregnancy is terminated surgically. I think the church has just found a way to keep people happy since ectopics happen fairly commonly. Wouldn't want to stand by and let thousands of women die every year because we can't kill a nonviable fetus to save the life of a mother.
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