Morning-After Pill Contemplated By German Bishops

Morning-After Pill Contemplated By German Bishops
Morning-after pills for rape victims might be accepted by Catholic bishops in Germany, according to their chairman Robert Zollitsch.

Morning-after pills for rape victims might be accepted by Catholic bishops in Germany, according to their chairman Robert Zollitsch. The clerics have begun a four-day conference facing hefty pressure to adopt reforms. Catholic bishops began their assembly in the Moselle river city of Trier on Monday facing lingering outrage - inside and outside the church - after last month's refusals by two Catholic hospitals in Cologne to treat a rape victim.

Opening the Trier conference, Archbishop Zollitsch (pictured above) said public consternation over the victim's rejection was "so high" and he expected bishops to discuss the issue objectively and to adopt a joint line to enable usage.

This was likely to allow medics to prescribe morning-after pills to rape victims, assuming these prevented sperm from fertilizing an egg in the womb and did not induce an abortion, Zollitsch said.

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Abramo

Feb 19, 2013

There is a BIG problem with the German bishops, a very BIG problem. They do not believe in hell, but they might anyway go there.

G.Taylor

Feb 19, 2013

Are there any German Catholic bishops?

seanie

Feb 19, 2013

Zollitshc publicly renounced the doctrine of the Atonement on ZDF television in front of millions of viewers. Why should his views on the morning-after pill surprise us?

Gloria.TV – News Briefs

Feb 19, 2013

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Who are your experts, Archbishop Zollitsch?

The most recent scientific study on Levonorgestrel, the essential component of the “morning-after pill” or “emergency contraceptive,” confirms that the drug does indeed have a third effect on users, which consists in preventing the implantation of a fertilized ovum in the womb of the mother.

...the most recent study (2007) by Doctors Mikolajczyk and Stanford of the Department of Medicine in Public Health of the University of Bielefeld (Germany) clearly indicates that the pill’s “real effect” includes mechanisms that prevent implantation.

Published by the magazine Fertility and Sterility, the study used data from multiple clinical studies with advanced mathematical models and concluded that if emergency contraception only inhibited ovulation its true effectiveness would only be in a range of 8-49 percent.

If it acted before ovulation and if it inhibited ovulation completely, its true effectiveness would be between 16-90 percent.

The rest of the pill’s effectiveness consists in its anti-implantation mechanisms, which cause an abortion.
Catholic News Agency
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It is true that the morning-after pill may act as a contraceptive; if it is taken before ovulation, it may act to prevent conception. But if the pill is taken during or after ovulation, conception may and frequently does occur and then, the makers of the morning-after pill freely admit, it acts by preventing implantation of the newly-formed embryo into the uterine wall. This mode of action is not contraceptive because it does not prevent conception, but rather, this aborts the life of a week-old human being. Prescribing or consuming this pill, therefore, is a reckless disregard for human life, all of its contraceptive potential notwithstanding. Pro-Life Physicians and the Morning After Pill
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There is clearly a disconnect with what Archbishop Zollitsch is now preaching to German Catholics and the actual truth.

Let see how long it takes before Bishop Müller, the New Prefect of CDF(Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith), corrects his fellow German for proffering an untruth?

However, perhaps Bishop Müller is too busy formulating his next public criticism of the SSPX to interfere with hereesy and the scandal originating from his fellow German bishops?