Is it ever okay to have an abortion?

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If a mother is four months into a pregnancy and complications arrise, may a child be killed so at least she survives rather than both people dying?
 
Is it alright to murder an person registered as an organ donor so that those people who could use those organs will survive?
 
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americancatholic.org/Newsletters/CU/ac0898.asp

Look at what it says under “Some ‘Hard Cases’” – “4. Medical Necessity”
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  1. Medical necessity. What about the argument that the Church must make exceptions to its teaching when abortion is medically necessary for the mother’s health or a child’s disability?
First, while the Church opposes all direct abortions, it does not condemn procedures which result, indirectly, in the loss of the unborn child as a “secondary effect.” For example, if a mother is suffering an ectopic pregnancy (a baby is developing in her fallopian tube, not the womb), a doctor may remove the fallopian tube as therapeutic treatment to prevent the mother’s death. The infant will not survive long after this, but the intention of the procedure and its action is to preserve the mother’s life. It is not a direct abortion.

There also occur, very rarely, situations in which, in order to save the mother’s life, the child needs to be delivered early. But this can be done safely with a normal, induced delivery, or a caesarean section.

The argument for killing disabled unborn children is not a medical one either. There are no disabilities which require directly killing the child in order to save the mother. In fact, disabled children can usually be delivered with no more complications than a child without disabilities. The argument for abortion in these cases is ideological, a belief that it is better—for the child, the family and the whole society—for the child to die than to live with a disability

Please give me the “specifics” that state an abortion is okay, from reading the above.

Elaborate so we understand this better.
 
Tim_Kirchoff said:
It was a rhetorical question to begin with. The answer was implied to be “no!”
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I know, but we must play along with the culture of death, in hopes we can plant seeds.

You know what I mean right? By play along?

We have our methods.😉
 
Hellisreal said:
I know, but we must play along with the culture of death, in hopes we can plant seeds.

You know what I mean right? By play along?

We have our methods.😉
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I was seeing if I could play Devil’s Advocate for a little while…
 
The sword I speak of is the sword of truth that cuts.

I hope we are all clear on that. 🙂
 
So in the article it states that if a procedure such as fallopian tube removal must be done, or else both mother and child may die, that may be done even though it involves the death of the child. Is this not an abortion?
 
specifics said:
So in the article it states that if a procedure such as fallopian tube removal must be done, or else both mother and child may die, that may be done even though it involves the death of the child. Is this not an abortion?
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Is this the premise of your OP?

NO.

Move on.
 
specifics said:
So in the article it states that if a procedure such as fallopian tube removal must be done, or else both mother and child may die, that may be done even though it involves the death of the child. Is this not an abortion?
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No - the treatment’s secondary effect leads to the child’s death, it is an unintended effect, so it isn’t an abortion. There is no direct intention to kill the baby.

I hope I helped.
 
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Yes.

Otherwise, neither I nor my child would be alive to say that (starvation was the killer - and fortunately it only killed one of us - barely since it nearly took me too), and while I am terribly sorry my child isn’t here to discuss the matter, I am not too worried about the choice I made. Indeed, I think my mother would have been possibly justified to terminate her pregnancy with the fetus that eventually became me.

Okay, back to the schedule, I guess.
 
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