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LuckyCharms On July 31, 2021
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#1New Post! May 19, 2010 @ 04:39:28
AP Article

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A nun and administrator at a Catholic hospital in Phoenix has been reassigned and rebuked by the local bishop for agreeing that a severely ill woman needed an abortion to survive.


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"An unborn child is not a disease. While medical professionals should certainly try to save a pregnant mother's life, the means by which they do it can never be by directly killing her unborn child. The end does not justify the means."

Olmsted added that if a Catholic "formally cooperates" in an abortion, he or she is automatically excommunicated.


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A letter sent to Olmsted Monday by the board chairwoman and the president and CEO of CHW asks Olmsted to provide further clarification about the directives. The pregnancy, the letter says, carried a nearly certain risk of death for the mother.

"If there had been a way to save the pregnancy and still prevent the death of the mother, we would have done it," the letter says. "We are convinced there was not."


Lovely. Apparently it's better that the woman should have died. Hmmm, dead or excommunicated? I think I'll select excommunicated thank you very much.
foxytrot On February 04, 2015
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Oceanside, California
#2New Post! May 19, 2010 @ 04:41:34
That's ridiculous that people would let religion rule their logic.
Kimmler On February 03, 2011

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Stockport, United Kingdom
#3New Post! May 19, 2010 @ 07:23:09
I'm glad the Nun went ahead and saved the womans life.
Who cares what a cardinal says? When push comes to shove anyone would take life over ex-communication.
jmo On April 29, 2021
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Yorkshire, United Kingdom
#4New Post! May 19, 2010 @ 07:34:50
I thought the Catholic church used the principle of double effect to allow abortion in these cases?
TheMightyOz On March 17, 2015
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Luton, United Kingdom
#5New Post! May 19, 2010 @ 08:46:50
@foxytrot Said

That's ridiculous that people would let religion rule their logic.


That's how religion works. If everyone thought logically there wouldn't be any religion.
nooneinparticular On March 16, 2023




, Hawaii
#6New Post! May 20, 2010 @ 08:28:44
I would LOVE to see how the bishop would have planned to saved both lives with a good chance of success. If you don't have a solution, than don't blame people who do.
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