Actually, I've been saying otherwise. Where have you been?
Now we're retreading ground.
I'm not sure you read completely my admittedly-long post at 271. It reviews the medical meaning of the word “abortion,” as well as the meaning in Catholic moral theology.
Briefly, an induced abortion (we're not speaking about spontaneous abortions, often termed “miscarriages”) is the induction of delivery of an unborn human being prior to viability.
Viability, of course, means the ability to live outside the womb.
But just to clarify, here's the circumstances:
A woman is pregnant. Gestational age is well before there is any hope of survival outside the womb for the unborn child. The woman will die if pregnancy continues.
Someone (I'll call him “the abortionist”) induces labor, but is careful to deliver the child intact. The child, being of a gestational age that precludes living outside the womb, no matter what medical intervention then-currently available, dies.
Does xzins accept this as moral or immoral? Does xzins think this should be legal or illegal?
Thanks,
sitetest