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RE: Under no circumstances can an innocent* person be deliberately killed, not even to save another person’s life. No exceptions.

How does that square with this argument made by the doctor — “Consistent with our values of dignity and justice, if we are presented with a situation in which a pregnancy threatens a woman’s life, our first priority is to save both patients, If that is not possible, we will always save the life we can save, and that is what we did in this case.”

So, they argue:

1) They tried to save both mother and baby

2) It was not possible under the circumstances

3) The only life that they could save was the mother, and that’s what they did.

"Saving the life you can save" is fine. Deliberately killing another person (which is what an abortion does) in order to save that life is not.

It's the hospital's responsibility to educate their doctors on how to practice medicine within the bounds of Catholic morality. They obviously dropped the ball pretty completely.

3) The only life that they could save was the mother, and that’s what they did.

I agree with the hospital...The Mother only, lives, or they both die...Easy choice...