Posted on 08/08/2014 8:59:54 AM PDT by Salvation
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EUGENIC STERILIZATION
Depriving people of their generative powers in order to eliminate offspring having allegedly undesirable traits and to develop an environment more advantageous for human beings having allegedly desirable traits. the Catholic Church forbids the procedure because "public magistrates have no direct power over the bodies of their subjects. therefore, where no crime has taken place and there is no cause for grave punishment, they can never directly harm or tamper with the integrity of the body, either for reasons of eugenics or for any other reason' (Pius XI, Casti Connubii, II, 68-70).
All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.
And it’s not any better, morally, if the “public magistrates” pay the “undesirables” to have themselves “voluntarily” sterilized.
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Bump that in agreement.
Bump.
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