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Originally Posted by ccvasquez Lidwen Wraith
"Catholics have traditionally believed that the mother's life should be sacrificed for that of the baby..."
Can you provide a source? That is outside my understanding of Catholic teaching; which respects the life of all people involved.
Perhaps you are confusing Church teachings on sacrificial love with Church doctrine regarding the sanctity of life? | Ccvasquez -
Welcome to the board 
You know,
I probably didn't send the idea I meant to send there. I should have said something like,
"Catholic teaching is that we may not choose one life over another" (and as a corollary to that: if a pregnancy or birth threatens the mother's life, Catholics still are not permitted to kill the unborn baby)."
Not, that is, except in cases such as morbid uterine cancer, or ectopic pregnancy...where both mother and child would die if no intervention was taken.
I think that is still the Catholic teaching (?)
I'm sure that few people live up to it; otherwise Gina Beretta Molla would not have been canonized for following it.
Please let me know if my understanding is incorrect about this; it very well could be. |