German Bishops' ruling on the morning after pill based on scientific myth

Morning-after pills all have abortive potential, doctor says

The reasoning offered by the German Catholic bishops for allowing the morning-after pill in rape cases is being faulted for citing information that is not medically accurate.

“There is absolutely no such pill with a 100 percent guarantee that it will not cause an abortion,” said Dr. Catherine Vierling, who studied medicine at the Universities of Paris and Strasbourg.

The German bishops unanimously agreed on Feb. 21 to allow the morning-after pill to be administered in Catholic health facilities for rape cases, provided that it is administered in a way that “has a preventive and not an abortive effect.”

Their decision came after a 25-year-old woman said she was raped and was refused treatment at two Catholic hospitals in Cologne.

“Medical and pharmaceutical methods which result in the death of an embryo still may not be used,” a Feb. 22 statement from the German Bishops’ Conference said.

However, as part of their discussion, Cardinal Karl Lehmann, president of the conference’s Commission for Doctrine and Faith, provided a moral and theological evaluation of the morning-after pill “on the basis of scientific findings on the availability of new compounds with modified effect.”


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Cathcon has made a request via the Bishops Conference website for the scientific findings on which the statement is based. The German Bishops owe it to the Catholic world to provide these as a matter of urgency.

Comments

Geremia said…
More appallingly, they used and justified a wrong (contraception) to justify another wrong (the morning-after pill's potentially abortificient effects).
Jimmy said…
Excuse me and maybe my catholic ignorance but hangon we are talking about a life or a potential life- I thought the Church stood for life no matter what- so if you can stop a life being born what else can you do- it seems the germans have lost the way yet again- Hang on to Christ and his words because I think many in the church are fast being lost
Jimmy said…
Now I get even more angry... So who are these German Bishops and who gioves them the right to decide who will live and who will die...I hope we are not back in the dark dark and jeiwhs days when the state decided who should live.....People of God cry out with venegence against these misguided leaders....We need OPur Blessed saviour to come and take posession of his Church. Tonight I go to sleep with a very sad heart....I feel sorry for all the good people of God who try to follow his ways the best they can despite all the nonsense that cmes from inside and outside the Church...People of God rise up and take back your holy Church