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#658 – A Thoughtful Dialogue on Abortion (with Randal Rauser)

The Counsel of Trent

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Is the Morning After Pill Immoral?

The Catholic traditional teaching on contraception is I think there's a lot of wisdom there in terms of, for example, the dangers of treating natural rhythms of fecundity as pathogenic. But at the end of the day, it's, I just don't think it's the reason because I don't even think let's suppose someone was raped and didn't realize it had happened. It happened when they were unconscious and then discovers they're pregnant in the second or third trimester. And we require much more justification than to prevent implantation of an embryo of the rapist. We can start changing the situation and we lose that intuition. Instead of a 10 year old girl, it's a 30

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