Is it right for a christian doctor to perform an abortion?

No true Christian doctor would ever abort a baby

KawaiiChristianGal said:

No true Christian doctor would ever abort a baby

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I agree no 'baby' would be aborted, but what about a few cells? Are zygotes babies?

LionL said:

I agree no 'baby' would be aborted, but what about a few cells? Are zygotes babies?

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I believe it's a baby at the moment of conception. The Bible says God knew us before He formed us in the womb.

In Catholic moral theology partaking in a abortion ipso facto excommunicates the Catholic(s) involved.

This says it all really, as excommunicated (without ever repenting through the sacrament of reconciliation) one goes to hell.

No ifs and no buts.
Abortion is to viciously kill an unborned infant, a life newly created and willed by God Father the Almighty.

Remember that our Lord came to this earth through the womb of a woman.
Christ have been in the same helpless situation as those who get aborted.

The ramifications of abortion is of the gravest nature.

Efe James said:

The passage below seems to say that causing death to a fetus is not as serious a crime as causing death to a person, but it is actually just part of a long section specifying the punishments for various crimes.

And if men struggle with each other and strike a woman with child so that she has a miscarriage, yet there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman's husband may demand of him; and he shall pay as the judges decide. "But if there is any further injury, then you shall appoint as a penalty life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, (NAS, Exodus 21:22-24)

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A Christian doctor may perform an abortion if it is the only way to save the mother's life (or to prevent her suffering crippling ongoing illness). The Bible accepts that it can be necessary to take a life in order to work a greater good, and even children have been killed in the Bible.

The difference is that this must be the utmost last option of the Christian doctor.

Inkfingers said:

A Christian doctor may perform an abortion if it is the only way to save the mother's life (or to prevent her suffering crippling ongoing illness). The Bible accepts that it can be necessary to take a life in order to work a greater good, and even children have been killed in the Bible.

The difference is that this must be the utmost last option of the Christian doctor.

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If possible one must always choose the foster.
It's not morally acceptable to abort a child say in order to start cancer treatment on the mother.

The only exceptions is if both child and mother dies without the procedure then it's morally permitted.

Re: Is it right for a Christian doctor to perform an abortion

The answer depends on the exact circumstances and details about the people involved. In lieu of them, it is a general moral examination, but the result may or may not apply to a particular situation. (In a lot of situations, it won't matter if the doctor is Christian or not.)

In general, killing another person is immoral. However, if the doctor genuinely believes the fetus is not a human in any sense, then it isn't murder.

Greg J. said:

Re: Is it right for a Christian doctor to perform an abortion

The answer depends on the exact circumstances and details about the people involved. In lieu of them, it is a general moral examination, but the result may or may not apply to a particular situation. (In a lot of situations, it won't matter if the doctor is Christian or not.)

In general, killing another person is immoral. However, if the doctor genuinely believes the fetus is not a human in any sense, then it isn't murder.

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It will still be murder, in such case the culpability will be reduced to a bare minimum though.

A catholic doctor performed an abortion on my first wife in order to save her life. She was within minutes of bleeding out. In the case of an elective abortion I believe that he should be able to follow his conscience.

Not according to Catholic moral theology, but you're not Catholic so I understand that you don't feel bound by our theology.

The thing is that our conscience is of this world and may often suffer from various degrees of misconceptions.
I mean, have you ever heard about OCD ?
When people suffer from religious ocd they often tend to think that they're hellbound etc over small and(to others) insignificant things.

In this example the catechism (for us Catholics) come in handy.
The catechism both free us from misdirected guilt aswell as it helps us realising our sins.

To us (Catholics) a conscience is good only when it acts according to Catholic doctrine.

Since your doctor were Catholic this applies to him/ her the same way as the rest of the church.

One thing is theoretical predicaments though and I realise that seeing the faces of the people affected might cause some to ignore doctrine out of a feeling of compassion for said person.
It may lessen the culpability of the doctor, but never the grave nature of the act.

One of the 10 Commandments is thou shalt not kill. If a Christian doctor performed an abortion, my respect for them is completely gone. Vanished.

Efe James said:

The passage below seems to say that causing death to a fetus is not as serious a crime as causing death to a person, but it is actually just part of a long section specifying the punishments for various crimes.

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It is up to the individual doctor to do what is "right" for them, no matter what.

ToBeLoved said:

One of the 10 Commandments is thou shalt not kill. If a Christian doctor performed an abortion, my respect for them is completely gone. Vanished.

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People report to God first, other people second.
We don't know if your respect is correctly placed.

SkyWriting said:

It is up to the individual doctor to do what is "right" for them, no matter what.

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You say right to them, does that imply that you consider the truth to be plural as in "if it's true to you then it's your truth"?
If so the truth becomes subjective and not objective which is a very dangerous path to follow as far as ones soul concerns.

SkyWriting said:

It is up to the individual doctor to do what is "right" for them, no matter what.

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This is suitable for framing since it sums up the reasons for all the suffering and misery that has gone on since the end of. Eden

SkyWriting said:

People report to God first, other people second.
We don't know if your respect is correctly placed.

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Yes but who G-d is is defined partly in the divine moral code of our faith.
One cannot change moral theology without changing the total picture of G-d.

Pastoral practice cannot be separated from the law.
Then one implies that G-d isn't fully and total harmony which he is.

Let there be no doubt as to why the world is the way it is.

Tull said:

Let there be no doubt as to why the world is the way it is.

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Subjective truth is the root of all evil.
The problem is that there are no limits as to how twisted a subjective mind may be or become.

Euthanasia is next in line.
Well he or she suffered so much so the Christian doctor felt that he had to put his poor patient out of his or her misery.

Harmful and dangerous reasoning...

Besides one doesn't have to seek refuge from the evil of abortion only in religion, one could do so by reiterate the Hippocratic oath where abortion is explicitly forbidden,
all doctors must swear to uphold this oath before getting their license.