Posted on 06/17/2017 4:27:23 PM PDT by marshmallow
Avraham Steinberg has approved of abortion in some cases, while Fr Maurizio Chiodi says contraception may be permissible
Two more new members of the Pontifical Academy for Life hold controversial positions on bioethics.
Rabbi Professor Avraham Steinberg, one of 45 ordinary members of the Pontifical Council for Life appointed this week, has argued for the permissibility of ending a pregnancy in some cases.
Steinberg told Australia’s Radio National in 2008 that an embryo has “no human status” before 40 days. After 40 days it has “a certain status of a human being, not a full status”.
As a result, Steinberg says, “Abortion is not permissible by Jewish law, but if the situation of the mother is in a psychological upset to a degree that it may cause her serious trouble, then abortion may be permissible despite the fact that for the foetus’s sake, we would not allow it.
“So case by case, occasionally abortion might be permissible, something which is probably unheard-of in the Catholic point of view.”
When asked about eugenics, Steinberg says he approves of genetic screening for disability, so that parents can “avoid the birth of a Tay-Sachs child or of a cystic fibrosis child and so on.” He explains that this “might be looked at as a form of eugenics”, but “that is not a forbidden eugenics if you think about it carefully, because what we want is that people would be happy and able and not suffering, but once they are born, they have equal rights and one must support them.”
Steinberg also supports stem-cell research involving the destruction of embryos, something forbidden by Church teaching, on the grounds that the embryo at a few days old “is not a human being in any sense. So therefore the destruction of it is not murder......
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I’m praying for swift, but Happy Death, for a certain person.
What ever happened to ‘moment of conception’?
The church has always taught the sanctity of life, God is the Creator.
Now a Rabbi is advising the Pontifical Council for Life, who has stated,”...that an embryo has “no human status” before 40 days. After 40 days it has “a certain status of a human being, not a full status”.
Heresy in the Vatican.
If he does not convert, it won’t be happy.
There’s been heresy in the Vatican for decades now. By including the Rabbi, he is just doing what any non-Catholic Ecumenist would do!
piusv wrote:
There’s been heresy in the Vatican for decades now. By including the Rabbi, he is just doing what any non-Catholic Ecumenist would do!
If I may respectfully borrow a tagline, We have a rogue Curia in Rome (ebb tide)
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