May Life-Sustaining Treatment Be Withheld or Withdrawn? | Prof. Gina Noia
The Thomistic Institute
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Is the Antibiotics Ordinary or Extraordinary?
Most of the time a treatment being ordinary in the medical sense is necessary, but not sufficient for the treatment to be ordinary in the moral sense. In the case of an otherwise healthy person, as we've said, it's likely ordinary in themoral sense. However, in the case of someone imminently dying from another cause, it would still beordinary in theMedical sense, but it's not ordinary anymore in the moralsense.
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