Body transplants?

[thinkandmull]

Organs unique place in the body as integral units (as opposed to blood, veins, and muscles) is based on natural law science.

Anyway, see you on another thread

 

[Rau]

Organs unique place in the body as integral units (as opposed to blood, veins, and muscles) is based on natural law science.

Anyway, see you on another thread

“Natural law science”?

 

[NovusFidem]

Organs unique place in the body as integral units (as opposed to blood, veins, and muscles) is based on natural law science.

Anyway, see you on another thread

That still doesn’t make donating immoral, as the intention of the act has to be taken into account. If I donate a kidney and some parts of my intestine just to get thinner around the waist, then my intention makes the act of donation “immoral”. If I donate it to save another life, then my intention makes the act “moral”.

CCC 1749 Freedom makes man a moral subject. When he acts deliberately, man is, so to speak, the father of his acts. Human acts, that is, acts that are freely chosen in consequence of a judgment of conscience, can be morally evaluated. They are either good or evil.

I. THE SOURCES OF MORALITY

1750 The morality of human acts depends on:

• the object chosen; (organ donation) (contraceptives)

• the end in view or the intention; (saving a life vs. getting rid of organs) (controlling polycystic ovary vs. avoid contraception)

• the circumstances of the action. (you are healthy and will live without that organ vs. you will die without that organ) (you are avoinding sex during contraception treatment vs. you aren’t avoiding sex)

 

[thinkandmull]

That still doesn’t make donating immoral, as the intention of the act has to be taken into account. If I donate a kidney and some parts of my intestine just to get thinner around the waist, then my intention makes the act of donation “immoral”. If I donate it to save another life, then my intention makes the act “moral”.

Situation ethics has been condemned

 

[Rau]

Situation ethics has been condemned

Correct. But the church recognises the goodness of the human act of organ donation - intention and consequences are good AND the moral object is good. (I don’t fully agree with the prior poster’s analysis.)

 

[thinkandmull]

dspace.ucalgary.ca/jspui/bitstream/1880/47541/1/Reynolds_2007.pdf