Pregnancy

[kage_ar]

I appreciate all of your responses and thank you for them.
Down syndrome is part of this equation, including two heart murmurs. If any of you are familar with the complications that can accompany this syndrome, then you must know the many health issues. Mental disabilities can hender understanding the method of NFP for a couple who both have the syndrome. What would the Catholic Church teachings be knowing this information?

It is doubtful that a person with Downs Syndrome would be able to give consent to marry.

 

[RobnBobA1]

Abortion is never a moral choice either. This is not something a pregnant woman could ever morally choose to do.
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The catholic church disagrees. An abortion is morally acceptable if in cases of life threatening disease and the abortion is indirect, for example an eptopic pregnancy may be treated with an abortion, by removing the fallopian tube or part of the organ that the embryo is attached to, where remaining there would cause the woman’s and embryo’s death.

 

[rayne89]

The catholic church disagrees. An abortion is morally acceptable if in cases of life threatening disease and the abortion is indirect, for example an eptopic pregnancy may be treated with an abortion, by removing the fallopian tube or part of the organ that the embryo is attached to, where remaining there would cause the woman’s and embryo’s death.

Removing the fallopian tube is not an abortion. Removing the fallopian tube is the medical treatment to keep the woman from hemorrhaging if the tube should rupture, which would happen eventually. The secondary effect is the death of the child, which by the way can not survive in the tube. Just like a cancerous uterus can be removed causing the secondary effect of the death of an unborn child. This is not the same as abortion. The objective is to medically treat the condition not to kill the child. The child’s death is sadly an unfortunate side effect of the treatment. In abortion the objective is to kill the child.

 

[1ke]

The catholic church disagrees. An abortion is morally acceptable if in cases of life threatening disease and the abortion is indirect, for example an eptopic pregnancy may be treated with an abortion, by removing the fallopian tube or part of the organ that the embryo is attached to, where remaining there would cause the woman’s and embryo’s death.

What you have just described is not an abortion.

 

[kage_ar]

The catholic church disagrees. An abortion is morally acceptable if in cases of life threatening disease and the abortion is indirect, for example an eptopic pregnancy may be treated with an abortion, by removing the fallopian tube or part of the organ that the embryo is attached to, where remaining there would cause the woman’s and embryo’s death.

Removal of the tube is not an abortion. I can show you the bill from the hospital, if it was an abortion, they would have charged me for an abortion.

 

[creatingmusic]

Thank you all for your (name removed by moderator)ut to my questions at hand.

May God bless us all.

 

[ac_claire]

Personally, I can understand the Church’s stance on no condoms or sterilization either. It’s kind of like many things in life, even when looking at it from not a moral standpoint. If you make it okay for one instance, then everyone else wants to do it. And others want you to bend the rules etc.

Yeah, I think that’s part of it. Also I look at it like this:

a.) the Church knows what is right and true in the world more than I do; this is the Church’s job.

b.) the Church also doesn’t pander to the lowest common denominator. She respects our intellects and abilities and wills as human beings, therefore she knows that abstaining from sex (especially for a *really *good reason like to protect a person’s life) isn’t the impossible thing some people make it out to. It’s not always easy, but it’s totally doable.