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Politics : The abortion issue: pro-choice vs. anti-abortion
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To: LLCF who wrote (137)12/12/2008 3:12:18 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 286
 
In Catholic morality and in most schools of or sources of moral thought, intention is important. Nothing particularly Buddhist about the idea.

If you don't intend to commit an act, at most you are guilty of recklessness, and maybe not even that. For example, if I surprisingly and suddenly get sick and pass out while driving and my car kills a pedestrian, I'm not guilty of murder, in either a legal or a moral sense.

But few (if any) people accidentally take the morning after pill.

Of course if someone took it thinking it was a vitamin there wouldn't be much of a moral issue. If it was taken with the belief that it only acted as a contraceptive (by the definition the Catholic Church would use, since we are mostly talking about their moral ideas at the moment, in other words you honestly believe that it will only prevent conception) then the only moral issue is the issue of contraceptive use (personally I don't see much of a moral issue in preventing conception, but the Catholic Church would disagree with me).

If it was taken with the knowledge that it can act to prevent implementation, than for those who believe that deliberately preventing implantation is wrong, there is a moral issue.

I understand you disagree with the churches position here, but I'm not sure why you see it as so complicated or exotic, rather than simply wrong.
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