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Vatican stated in 2000 "the absolute unlawfulness of abortifacient procedures also applies to distributing, prescribing and taking the morning-after pill"

Connecticut bishops should reconsider: Russian roulette with the lives of babies is unacceptable...

"The encyclical of Pope Paul VI on birth control is true and must be followed by mankind. There shall be no rationalization of sin.” - Our Lady of the Roses, October 2, 1976

Matt Bowman of the Alliance Defense Fund reported on September 28, 2007:

The Catholic Bishops in Connecticut yesterday reversed their position and now say that Catholic hospitals there will comply with a new state law mandating that they dispense “emergency contraception” to rape victims even if a victim might have an embryo inside her. I respectfully suggest their position is gravely flawed, because it explicitly allows an action that has a reasonably possible chance of achieving its goal of killing a human embryo. Christian doctors across the country are resisting an onslaught of laws trying to force them to kill people, and yesterday’s statement will make their resistance harder.

Catholic teaching generally disallows contraception, but allows it in the case of rape as an act of self defense against the attacker’s sperm. Yet Catholic teaching prohibits harming an embryo as an end or means, and also prohibits taking an action that might reasonably do so. This makes sense. It is similar to saying that a gun can be fired in self defense, but cannot be fired into a crowd of innocent people, even if only one chamber of the gun is loaded. For years the pro-life movement, and the Catholic Bishops, correctly argued against full-scale abortion in part on the basis that even if we’re not sure the fetus is a person, it is wrong to kill it because we must err on the side of life.

The preceding moral principles cannot be applied precisely to “emergency contraception” such as “Plan B,” because we don’t have tests to show whether an embryo is present in a woman, and therefore whether a drug actually kills an embryo. All we can test for is whether ovulation has occurred (which releases the ovum to a place where sperm can reach it), and whether an approximately week-old embryo is present who can emit enough hCG hormone to show up on a “pregnancy test.” As a result, if a woman has sperm inside her and has recently ovulated, but a pregnancy test is negative, an embryo might be present anyway or might soon come into being.

Administering Plan B at that moment is basically the equivalent of shooting a partially loaded gun into a crowd. Plan B can function by preventing ovulation, or by slowing the sperm from getting to the ovum, or after an embryo is present by preventing its implantation into the woman’s uterus, thereby killing it. Plan B’s label affirms this latter effect, and recent studies (see also) confirm its real, non-negligible possibility. Perhaps more importantly (and more obviously), if a woman has already ovulated Plan B cannot function to prevent ovulation, and the chance of sufficiently slowing down the sperm at this point is remote.

Enter the Connecticut Bishops’ latest statement, which says, in relevant part,
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http://www.connecticut.nasccd.org/bins/connecticut/templates/splash.asp?resolutionfile=ftppath|documents/Statement re Plan B 9 27 07 (2).doc)

[T]o administer Plan B pills in Catholic hospitals to victims of rape[,] a pregnancy test to determine that the woman has not conceived is sufficient [moral precaution]. An ovulation test will not be required. The administration of Plan B pills in this instance cannot be judged to be the commission of an abortion because of such doubt about how Plan B pills and similar drugs work and because of the current impossibility of knowing from the ovulation test whether a new life is present. To administer Plan B pills without an ovulation test is not an intrinsically evil act.

Let’s break this down. The bishops say that Catholic health care providers will administer Plan B if a pregnancy test is negative, even if an ovulation test would be positive. How do they justify this, since in that circumstance Plan B might kill a human embryo (what else could it do)? First they say it’s not “abortion.” Strictly speaking, so what? Other things besides abortion are morally evil, like for example Russian roulette. Doing something that by design might kill an embryo, and that has a reasonable chance of doing so, is morally evil (and is awfully similar to abortion). This distinction is insufficient to prove the act’s moral acceptability.

Second they say there is doubt about how emergency contraception works. Maybe it will prevent implantation and kill an embryo. Maybe Plan B won’t “work” at all. But if ovulation has occurred, the only way it apparently could “work” in achieving the end of “the rape victim does not end up with the rapist’s baby,” is by preventing implantation. So if that possibility is negligible so is its overall effectiveness, and therefore administering it is not only morally but medically problematic. If Plan B does work after ovulation, then we’re not talking about a 0.00001 negligible chance of killing—it is a reasonable possibility, even if we can’t say whether the possibility is 5% or 35 %. So maybe it’s not like shooting your gun into a crowd, but like shooting it into a moderately populated plaza. This is still a big problem. Committing an act described as “I am taking a pill that by design kills an embryo in this circumstance, but might not” is simply not a morally coherent position, as can be seen by applying it to persons other than unborn children.

Third they say that the ovulation test doesn’t tell us whether an embryo is present. Again, this is not dispositive. Neither does a pregnancy test. No test does. The question is, if an embryo might reasonably be present, can you administer a drug that is intended to and might reasonably kill whoever is in there? The answer is no. It seems like they are asking the question "What are the chances that Plan B kills an embryo when taken by rape victims in general?" and concluding that the chances are small enough to make it permissible. But that is not teh right question. The question is, "What are the chances that taking Plan B after a positive ovulation test will kill an embryo, and what else could it do?"

Finally they say that Plan B “without an ovulation test” is not “intrinsically evil.” This is another non-sequitor. Lots of things are evil, and Christians must refuse to do them, without the acts being “intrinsically evil” (meaning, evil in any and all circumstances). In addition, what they might be saying here (it is not altogether clear) is, “If the ovulation test was positive, we couldn’t administer Plan B. So we’re just not going to conduct an ovulation test.” This is like firing your partially-loaded gun into the plaza, but closing your eyes first. This does not redeem the moral quality of this act.

The Connecticut Bishops’ statement is all the more tragic because it reverses a very principled and morally sound stand they had previously taken, and because the abortion juggernaut in other states is telling Christians that their faith doesn’t really prohibit Plan B even when it might kill someone. Positions like the one taken yesterday may undermine the religious freedom of doctors across the country, and I hope they reconsider once again.

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Vatican stated in 2000 "the absolute unlawfulness of abortifacient procedures also applies to distributing, prescribing and taking the morning-after pill" (see the full Vatican statement here: http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_academies/acdli... 

To express concerns to the Vatican:

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"We warned you over and over again, through years of visitations upon earth--My Mother going to and fro to warn you, that those who have given themselves over to debasement, by the practice of homosexuality, birth control, abortion and all other aberrations that bring sorrow to My Mother's heart--this must be stopped now. There shall be no excuse accepted in Heaven by the saints, nor by My Mother and I, or the Eternal Father and the Holy Ghost, for what you are doing upon earth now." - Jesus, June 6, 1987 

“Permissiveness shall not be accepted by your God. Sin is sin; there is no compromise for sin. Mortal sin is a grievous offense to the Eternal Father. The Commandments shall be followed without permissiveness.” – Jesus, November 21, 1977

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SIXTY MILLION
"I say this for this reason: the Eternal Father is much disturbed at the numbers of abortions being committed throughout your country and the world. These numbers go upwards to fifty to sixty million in one year throughout the world." - Our Lady, June 18, 1986

TREATED AS GARBAGE
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DOCTORS
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FOULEST OF DEEDS
"Our hearts are torn because of the wanton murder of the young by evil man. Abortion, My children, is murder, the most foulest of deeds, that is punishable by death! And what is worse than death of the soul?
     "I say unto you, as your Mother, that any man or woman who performs or takes part of this abomination of the murder of the unborn shall be given a heavy penance upon earth, or if this penance is not given upon earth, that person found guilty in the eyes of his God shall suffer eternal damnation in the fires of hell." - Our Lady, December 28, 1976 

TORMENT
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SAINTS CRY OUT FOR PUNISHMENT
"Oh, the greatest of sorrow is upon Our hearts because of the loss of the little ones. Your country, My child, and many countries throughout your world, shall do great penance for the murders of the young, the abortions, the murders being committed in your country. The saints in Heaven cry out for punishment upon a wicked generation. Never in the past, in all the slaughters of history, has there been such wanton killing of the young and the innocent! I say unto you, as your God, you shall be brought down to your knees! You, evil mankind, you shall be cleansed in a bloodbath!” - Jesus, February 1, 1977

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Outside Links…

Contraception:

Contraception: Fatal to the Faith and to Eternal Life,  John A. Hardon, S.J.

Is Contraception Gravely Sinful Matter? by Fr Lino Ciccone CM (from L'Osservatore Romano, 4 December 1996)

Faithfulness to the Divine Plan in the Transmission of Life Pope John Paul II's General Audience (8 August 1984)

Humanae Vitae Pope Paul VI - Encyclical - On the Regulation of Births (25 July 1968)

Contraception Versus Abortion: A Comparison and Some Implications, By Msgr. Vincent Foy, PhD.

Contraception and Catholic Teaching, Donald DeMarco, Ph.D.

God and the Pill, Terence J. Hughes

Abortifacients, Charles M. Mangan

Abortion:

Sin to vote for pro-abortion politicians? Fr. Matthew Habiger
http://www.ewtn.com/library/ISSUES/SINTOVOT.HTM

“Whoever is not with Me, is against Me,” Archbishop William Levada
http://www.ewtn.com/library/BISHOPS/LEVADA.HTM

Declaration on procured abortion (CDF, November 18, 1974)
http://www.ewtn.com/library/CURIA/CDFABORT.HTM

The Gospel of Life, Pope John Paul II, March 25, 1995
http://www.ewtn.com/library/ENCYC/JP2EVANG.HTM

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