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To: markomalley

if the mother’s life was in fact in danger, then this is a moral gray area. These instances are not the same as elective abortions and should not be treated as such.

I would point out that no abortion is good, but unfortunately, in some instances, due to medical emergency, they can be nessecary to save the mother.


3 posted on 05/18/2010 7:38:04 PM PDT by ChurtleDawg (voting only encourages them)
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To: ChurtleDawg
if the mother’s life was in fact in danger, then this is a moral gray area.

On another thread dealing with this, someone posted a doctor's medical opinion that the pulmonary hypertension would only be an issue in the last trimester, and that both the mother and the child could easily have survived at that stage.

5 posted on 05/18/2010 7:43:15 PM PDT by nina0113
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And where does the bible teach that killing a baby to save the mother is right? My mother was told by doctors to abort me because she could die if she had me; my parents refused, and thank God, we both came out alive and well. If they had decided to abort me, they would have been committing murder; if she had died, it would have been following the natural course of nature.
6 posted on 05/18/2010 7:46:04 PM PDT by gedeon3 (Wake up America!! The enemy is among us!)
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To: ChurtleDawg

It is not a gray area.

Look up “Principle of Double Effect.”


17 posted on 05/18/2010 11:44:25 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (In Edward Kennedy's America, federal funding of brothels is a right, not a privilege.)
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