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To: shhrubbery!
(Obviously a child delivered before 22 weeks gestation or so would likely die. But that would not be called an abortion, would it?)

An abortion is a procedure with the direct intent of killing the child. Delivering a child prematurely is not an intent to kill it, especially if one intends this to baptise a child which might otherwise die.

326 posted on 05/05/2005 11:33:24 AM PDT by Hermann the Cherusker
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To: Hermann the Cherusker

Actually, I believe that the church does not make this distinction. Forcing the delivery of a child that will not be sufficiently developed to survive is not considered any different than aborting the child. I will try to find a link for this but I remember seeing this very recently.


424 posted on 05/05/2005 2:06:32 PM PDT by ga medic
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To: Hermann the Cherusker
An abortion is a procedure with the direct intent of killing the child.

Yes -- although I think there can still be some confusion on this point. There used to be a distinction made between "spontaneous" abortion (which is not induced, and which we commonly called miscarriage or stillbirth depending on the baby's gestational age); and so-called "therapeutic" aka elective abortion.

But that's beside the point, I guess. What I was trying to find out was if the "pro-life" doctors in question intentionally destroyed the babies before delivery; or if they simply did emergency deliveries, while knowing the babies were too young to survive.

606 posted on 05/06/2005 10:34:15 AM PDT by shhrubbery! (The 'right to choose' = The right to choose death --for somebody else.)
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