Post by homeschooldad on Feb 24, 2024 2:05:36 GMT
www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13118555/sara-haines-sunny-hostin-alabama-supreme-court-embryo-case.html
It's not the Daily Fail this time. This is a good article.
Of course, we as Catholics, if we are adherent to the traditional teachings of the Church on the sanctity and beginning of life, know that IVF, embryo storage, and most of all, the discarding of unused embryos, is gravely immoral and would be mortally sinful if all three traditional conditions applied (sufficient reflection and full consent of the will, this in addition to grave matter, which is obvious, to us anyway).
I'm not sure to what extent most non-Catholics are aware of this, and whether it ever presents a moral dilemma for them. This is yet one more example of how a Catholic author many years, I think it was Jeffrey Mirus (whom I knew personally), pointed out that as society drifts further and further into error and even apostasy, you have to be Catholic to be right. I once took it on the ear on another Catholic forum for suggesting that Protestants make deficient moral decisions, but it's the truth, they do, because they are not in full possession of Catholic moral teaching. I didn't say they were bad people or culpable for their error --- might be, might not be, every person and their set of circumstances are different --- I just pointed out that their moral decisions, sooner or later, are bound to fail. Contraception is an excellent case in point, and so is IVF and embryo destruction. Try to imagine a person who thinks there are only nine commandments and is ignorant of the tenth one (pick any one of them). When they make a moral decision, and it involves that commandment that is missing from their consciousness, yes, that moral decision is going to be a bad one. That's all I meant.
And it's not just the beginning of life. Our TLM priest and I discussed the morality of administering medications to my mother that could shorten her life while alleviating her suffering in those final days before she passed away. He agreed, which I already knew, that the principle of double effect is at play here, even though her dosages weren't high enough to hasten death. She never reached the point where higher dosages were needed on a long-term basis, and those palliative medications made her last days and hours painless and allowed her to die with quiet dignity.
It's not the Daily Fail this time. This is a good article.
Of course, we as Catholics, if we are adherent to the traditional teachings of the Church on the sanctity and beginning of life, know that IVF, embryo storage, and most of all, the discarding of unused embryos, is gravely immoral and would be mortally sinful if all three traditional conditions applied (sufficient reflection and full consent of the will, this in addition to grave matter, which is obvious, to us anyway).
I'm not sure to what extent most non-Catholics are aware of this, and whether it ever presents a moral dilemma for them. This is yet one more example of how a Catholic author many years, I think it was Jeffrey Mirus (whom I knew personally), pointed out that as society drifts further and further into error and even apostasy, you have to be Catholic to be right. I once took it on the ear on another Catholic forum for suggesting that Protestants make deficient moral decisions, but it's the truth, they do, because they are not in full possession of Catholic moral teaching. I didn't say they were bad people or culpable for their error --- might be, might not be, every person and their set of circumstances are different --- I just pointed out that their moral decisions, sooner or later, are bound to fail. Contraception is an excellent case in point, and so is IVF and embryo destruction. Try to imagine a person who thinks there are only nine commandments and is ignorant of the tenth one (pick any one of them). When they make a moral decision, and it involves that commandment that is missing from their consciousness, yes, that moral decision is going to be a bad one. That's all I meant.
And it's not just the beginning of life. Our TLM priest and I discussed the morality of administering medications to my mother that could shorten her life while alleviating her suffering in those final days before she passed away. He agreed, which I already knew, that the principle of double effect is at play here, even though her dosages weren't high enough to hasten death. She never reached the point where higher dosages were needed on a long-term basis, and those palliative medications made her last days and hours painless and allowed her to die with quiet dignity.