Vatican II at 50: German Bishops, in "Sede Vacante" mood, OK abortifacient "morning-after pill"

Photo ~ Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, head of Germany’s bishop’s conference gives a media statement before the German bishop’s annual meeting in Trier, February 18, 2013. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay)

Vatican II at 50: German Bishops, in "Sede Vacante" mood, OK abortifacient "morning-after pill"

The German Episcopal Conference has now made its own the approval given by Cardinal Meisner to the "morning-after pill" in cases of rape.

Germany's Roman Catholic Church said on Thursday it had decided to permit certain types of "morning-after pill" for women who have been raped, after two Catholic hospitals provoked an outcry last month for refusing to treat a rape victim.

The German Bishops' Conference said church-run hospitals would now ensure proper medical, psychological and emotional care for rape victims - including administering pills that prevent pregnancy without inducing an abortion.

Archbishop Robert Zollitsch said a four-day meeting of German bishops in the western town of Trier had "confirmed that women who have been victims of rape will get the proper human, medical, psychological and pastoral care".

"That can include medication with a 'morning-after pill' as long as this has a prophylactic and not an abortive effect," he said in a statement. "Medical and pharmaceutical methods that induce the death of an embryo may still not be used."

That means there is no change to the Catholic church's ban on the so-called abortion pill based on the drug mifepristone or RU-486, and marketed as Mifegyne or Mifeprex. (Source)

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G.Taylor

Feb 22, 2013

Cardinals who say it is proper "care" to kill babies in the womb are agents of satan.
Resign you gaggle of liars.

seanie

Feb 22, 2013

So I would like to ask the following....given that the faithful Catholics in Germany are paying the "Kirchensteuer" (Church tax) to fund, among other things, the supply of morning after pills in Catholic hospitals, may one licitly withdraw from paying the church tax in order not to be complicit in baby killing?
Might this be the only way that Christ-denying wolf Zollitch and his ilk will listen?More

So I would like to ask the following....given that the faithful Catholics in Germany are paying the "Kirchensteuer" (Church tax) to fund, among other things, the supply of morning after pills in Catholic hospitals, may one licitly withdraw from paying the church tax in order not to be complicit in baby killing?

Might this be the only way that Christ-denying wolf Zollitch and his ilk will listen?

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Feb 22, 2013

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Good thing those German bishops are in "full union"; good thing they are "canonically regular"; that's whats important after all :)
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They "refused to treat a rape victim"‽ I think they mean they refused to kill her baby.
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The German Episcopal Conference has clearly committed a schismatic act, as did the Canadian Episcopal Conference with their Winnipeg Statement in Sept. 27, 1968, a few months after the promulgation of Humanæ Vitæ.
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Let's hope the next Pope isn't from a Rhine or Danube country. There's been to much run off from these rivers into the Tiber for the last fifty years.
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For the German Bishops to have published this at all is of course a disgrace, but to do it at this time is an atrocious fait accompli betrayal of the Church's teaching.

One can only weep. And dream of meeting each of them in the boxing ring.
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