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It was right there in the article of the thread you posted. Didn't you read the article first, or only the headline and thought, hey, this is good to throw out against the wall....
j-mac
Yes. I did ask the question re: your opinion. I remember this case from 2009... and I did read the article.
Saving a life should NOT be a mortal sin.. not a justification for ex communication.
Had the Nun Administrator refused the life saving procedure on this unfortunate mother, she would forever live with the guilt of having taken a life without cause.
One of my doctors transfused a drop in patient in end stage labor... She had four children under six at home and no prenatal care. He delivered the baby in the ER and she proceeded to hemorrhage (bleed out).. He started a life saving transfusion and her husband went crazy..
They were Jehovah's Witnesses.. He transfused her anyway.. and within a half hour a lawyer 300 miles away was threatening to sue.
Should this young doctor have allowed her to die? Should he have had to live with that on his conscience... not to mention leaving 4 young children motherless?
I was so furious.. that my inclination was that she should have had her baby in the parking lot and let her husband deliver it..