Ok, well in this case I defer to the medical staff and not to the Church. It’s easy to pontificate about morality (armchair quarterbacking) when not actually in the situation. Were there priests or whoever that decided actually there to see what the situation was? Where were they? In some office someplace far removed from the scene? Did they have in front of them the diagnosis and prognosis data? Or did they just condemn the hospital out of hand?
okay--people have a right to do this... and because the staff at this hospital did what they did, they can't use the "Catholic" label... that is what was taken away...
Were there priests or whoever that decided actually there to see what the situation was? Where were they?
that does not matter... as he said:
The end does not justify the means," he added... "The direct killing of an unborn child is always immoral, no matter the circumstances, and it cannot be permitted in any institution that claims to be authentically Catholic," he concluded.
the church is simply standing by its beliefs in this case...
Fair enough. But we also don’t know if they simply took the easy way out. The Chuch pulled affiliation, thats all. Catholics do not and cannot condone abortion. When the case legitimately comes about that only one can survive the mother then is then saved unless she chooses otherwise
The Bishop has been agonizing over this for quite some time, so I don’t think this was a snap decision. St. Joe’s is an enormous hospital.
Whether or not the post partum deterioration happens after miscarriage is not mentioned in the medical literature. We don't know if mom is still alive, or died anyway.
But the case is rare, and by not transferring mom to a better hospital, they ignored that experimental treatment, including a heart lung transplant or extracorporal circulation, could have saved both.