This has NEVER been the Catholic position.
Catholics, as well as all true Christians, believe that a mother's life is sacred and will permit any MEDICALLY-NECESSARY procedure to save the mother's life even if it results in the tragic loss of the baby.
The position on abortion of being "not at any time and not for any reason" is a specifically Roman Catholic position.
This has NEVER been the Catholic position.
Catholics, as well as all true Christians, believe that a mother's life is sacred and will permit any MEDICALLY-NECESSARY procedure to save the mother's life even if it results in the tragic loss of the baby.
I stand corrected, and apologize to you and to all Catholics. I assure you that my statement was out of ignorance and not out of malice.
The purpose of my post was to point out that, like everything else in life, the fate of the unborn should be determined by Divine Law. Most of the time abortion is strictly forbidden and a capital offense. Sometimes it is strictly forbidden, but not a capital offense. And in a very few, specific instances it is mandatory. In other cases the baby may not be terminated for any reason whatsoever, including the health of the mother.
In all these cases it is not "choice" or secular ethics that should determine the outcome but adherence to Divine Law. Morality separated from Divine Law is the essence of Marxism, humanism, and all other non-Theistic moral/ethical systems.