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Answered by Cardinal Francis George
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Useful Quotes:
“As experienced practitioners and researchers in obstetrics and gynecology, we affirm that direct abortion – the purposeful destruction of the unborn child – is not medically necessary to save the life of a woman.
We uphold that there is a fundamental difference between abortion and necessary medical treatments that are carried out to save the life of the mother, even if such treatment results in the loss of life of her unborn child.
We confirm that the prohibition of abortion does not affect, in any way, the availability of optimal care to pregnant women.”
- Dublin Declaration on Maternal Health Care, September 8, 2012, issued by the Select Panel for the 2012 INTERNATIONAL Symposium on Maternal Health.
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Alan F. Guttmacher, M.D., “the father of Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinics,” longtime abortion advocate whose name was used for Planned Parenthood’s sister organization, the Guttmacher Institute:
“Today it is possible for almost any patient to be brought through pregnancy alive, unless she suffers from a fatal illness such as cancer or leukemia, and, if so, abortion would be unlikely to prolong, much less save, life.”
“Abortion – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow,” in The Case for Legalized Abortion Now (Berkeley, Calif.: Diablo Press, 1967).
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Don Sloan, M.D., a physician who supports legalized abortion and has performed abortions for decades:
“With diseases like lupus, multiple sclerosis, even breast cancer, the chance that pregnancy will make the disease worse is no greater than the chance that the disease will either stay the same or improve. And medical technology has advanced to a point where even women with diabetes and kidney disease can be seen through a pregnancy safely by a doctor who knows what he or she is doing. We’ve come a long way since my mother’s time… The idea of abortion to save the mother’s life is something that people cling to because it sounds noble and pure -- but medically speaking, it probably doesn’t exist. It’s a real stretch of our thinking.
Don Sloan, M.D. and Paula Hartz, Choice: A Doctor's Experience with the Abortion Dilemma (New York: International Publishers, 2nd ed, 2002), p. 46.
"We affirm that there are no medical circumstances justifying direct abortion, that is, no circumstances in which the life of a mother may only be saved by directly terminating the life of her unborn child." (John Bonner, Eamon O'Dwyer, David Jenkins, Kieran O'Driscoll, Julia Vaughan, 'Statement by Obstetricians', The Irish Times 1 April 1992.
Answered by Cardinal Francis George
Vid from:
youtube.com/user/CatholicChicagoTeens/videos
Useful Quotes:
“As experienced practitioners and researchers in obstetrics and gynecology, we affirm that direct abortion – the purposeful destruction of the unborn child – is not medically necessary to save the life of a woman.
We uphold that there is a fundamental difference between abortion and necessary medical treatments that are carried out to save the life of the mother, even if such treatment results in the loss of life of her unborn child.
We confirm that the prohibition of abortion does not affect, in any way, the availability of optimal care to pregnant women.”
- Dublin Declaration on Maternal Health Care, September 8, 2012, issued by the Select Panel for the 2012 INTERNATIONAL Symposium on Maternal Health.
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Alan F. Guttmacher, M.D., “the father of Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinics,” longtime abortion advocate whose name was used for Planned Parenthood’s sister organization, the Guttmacher Institute:
“Today it is possible for almost any patient to be brought through pregnancy alive, unless she suffers from a fatal illness such as cancer or leukemia, and, if so, abortion would be unlikely to prolong, much less save, life.”
“Abortion – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow,” in The Case for Legalized Abortion Now (Berkeley, Calif.: Diablo Press, 1967).
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Don Sloan, M.D., a physician who supports legalized abortion and has performed abortions for decades:
“With diseases like lupus, multiple sclerosis, even breast cancer, the chance that pregnancy will make the disease worse is no greater than the chance that the disease will either stay the same or improve. And medical technology has advanced to a point where even women with diabetes and kidney disease can be seen through a pregnancy safely by a doctor who knows what he or she is doing. We’ve come a long way since my mother’s time… The idea of abortion to save the mother’s life is something that people cling to because it sounds noble and pure -- but medically speaking, it probably doesn’t exist. It’s a real stretch of our thinking.
Don Sloan, M.D. and Paula Hartz, Choice: A Doctor's Experience with the Abortion Dilemma (New York: International Publishers, 2nd ed, 2002), p. 46.
"We affirm that there are no medical circumstances justifying direct abortion, that is, no circumstances in which the life of a mother may only be saved by directly terminating the life of her unborn child." (John Bonner, Eamon O'Dwyer, David Jenkins, Kieran O'Driscoll, Julia Vaughan, 'Statement by Obstetricians', The Irish Times 1 April 1992.
