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05-21-2010, 10:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Drolefille
Philosophical debate since forever. Do nothing 2 people die, pull a lever and you kill one to save the other, could you pull the lever and kill someone even if you know it saves another? What if you had to stab them? What if you just tell someone else to do it?
But the 'passive abortion' isn't an unnatural intrusion causing the death it's the death of the mother which causes the death of the fetus
Yeah basically that.
Actually, no. If my recollection of extraordinary measures and ethics is correct, for example, withholding a feeding tube is NOT wrong, pulling a feeding tube for someone in a coma is considered euthanasia and wrong. Per the Church that is. So letting life happen not wrong, intervening to cause harm, wrong.
I believe it did save her actually. But my understanding is the condition was either caused or exacerbated by the pregnancy and it was the burden of the fetus that caused the problem.
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I wasn't sure of that. I lapsed before getting to the point where that concerned me on a moral level.
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05-21-2010, 10:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Psi U MC Vito
I wasn't sure of that. I lapsed before getting to the point where that concerned me on a moral level.
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I'm not 100% certain if I'm right on that, but that's what I recall. There was an argument that withholding the feeding tube was also wrong, but I don't think it was a determination.
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05-21-2010, 10:16 PM
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I'm not 100% certain if I'm right on that, but that's what I recall. There was an argument that withholding the feeding tube was also wrong, but I don't think it was a determination.
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That would make sense though. Again part of the "God wills it" line of thought. Not sure I agree with it myself, but I understand it.
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05-21-2010, 10:17 PM
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That would make sense though. Again part of the "God wills it" line of thought. Not sure I agree with it myself, but I understand it.
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Yeah thats how I am with most of this. I get it. I can see where they're coming from and often argue from their side, but I don't really agree.
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