Very interesting (translated with the google-translator):Archbishop Eguren: The Holy See has in morning-after pill changed nothing
mjae01 (Lima) The Chairman of the Committee for Family, Children and defense of life in the Peruvian Episcopal Conference, Archbishop Jose Antonio Eguren, has noted that the Holy See is not his stance on morning-after pill, because of their potentially abortive mode of action, change , and thus have created clarity in relation to the "lonely and surprising" Declaration of the German bishops, which has allowed its use in Catholic hospitals in Germany for women who are victims of rape.
The Archbishop of Piura and Tumbes (Peru), recalled that the German bishops had referred to "the availability of new drugs with altered mode of action" of the morning-after pill, which do not have an abortifacient effect. But "he has not shown, in which these amendments would, still support what new scientific studies that claim."
In this sense, he recalled that up "to this day the most reputable manufacturer of pharmaceutical product, recognizing that PD (morning-after pill) has or OEC (, Oral Emergency Contraception '/, oral emergency contraceptive') has three possible mechanisms of action: the to prevent ovulation, affecting the mobility of the sperm and to prevent the implantation of the embryo. This last, the implantation or nidation (implantation) of the embryo (ie, a new human being) to avoid being in the womb, an abortion. "
"The Federal Drug Administration (FDA), the authority for the control of drugs and pharmaceutical products, which sets the standards for the United States of America, and therefore for the rest of the world acknowledges to this day the potentially abortifacient mode of action of PD or OEC, "he added.
"So he-knows-it confirmed no morning-after pill, whose abortive potential of the international scientific community would be excluded accord and even less their marketing as such. Accordingly, under these circumstances, and by this time, their use always immoral, even in the case of rape. "
Archbishop Eguren pointed out that, "if in the future a PD or OEC would be developed, which would have the characteristics that would allow the morality of their use after a rape, the Holy See will be the one who will tell it what to date is not done. "
The archbishop said that, in the case of Peru, the pill is banned because "the absence of abortive mode of action has not been established" and the Peruvian law "protects the embryo, that is, the unborn child from the moment of conception."
"On the question of whether it is morally, after the rape of a woman give a morning-after pill, which prevents fertilization, that is, avoiding that the sperm reach the unjust aggressor (the rapist), the eggs of the victim the answer is simple: Yes, as long as there is a risk that the same pharmaceutical product causes an abortion if fertilization had taken place, "he explained.
However, he clarified that, "although the couple is not allowed to use contraception to control the birth rate, since it is a morally reprehensible means, this moral standard, which has not changed and will not change, can the case of rape shall not apply. Rape is an inhumane and unjust act serious, consequently this case, the moral principles of self-defense application. "
Archbishop Eguren said that, although the trial is allowed to prevent the fertilization as a result of rape by lawful means, as soon as the fertilization has occurred, "we have a new man in front of us", whose life must be protected.
"This teaching has not changed, it remains unchanged. Direct, that is, as an end or as a means of deliberate abortion is, in heavy contrast to the moral law (...). It is never justified to kill the child received, not even "under the vicious and brutal circumstances of rape, he said.
"The overwhelming cases of women victims of rape and had become pregnant and was the wise and courageous elected to receive their child's life, bear witness to it that it is this decision which really wins over the rape, since they is choice of good over evil and the triumph of love over violence, "he concluded.
Link to the German original version:
www.katholisches.info/…/erzbischof-egur…