What comes to my mind is something like this: “I won’t kill you, but I can refer you to somone who will.” or “I won’t kill your unborn child but I will refer you to someone who will.”
What comes to my mind is something like this: “I won’t kill you, but I can refer you to somone who will.” or “I won’t kill your unborn child but I will refer you to someone who will.”
That does become the difficulty for Catholic physicians - what constitutes an “effective” referral? Is referring someone to an information line where they can obtain the name of a practitioner “effective”? Or do you, yourself, have to refer to a doctor for an abortion or for assisted death? The former, I believe, is generally considered morally acceptable while the latter, for obvious reasons, is not.
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