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Church backs morning-after pill for rape victims
Published: 5 Feb 13 12:23 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/society/20130205-47765.html
Clergy across North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) on Monday backed the Archbishop of Cologne's controversial decision to allow doctors in Catholic-run clinics in the western German state to prescribe rape victims the morning-after pill.
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Bishops of the Münster, Aachen, Essen and Paderborn dioceses officially gave him their support on Monday, NRW paper the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung said.
In the instance of rape, medication that stopped pregnancy by halting the division of cells had the Archbishop's blessing. Chemical abortion pills, however, remained unacceptable in the eyes of the Church.
Two Catholic clinics in NRW came under fire in January after it emerged that they refused in December a woman who had been raped the morning-after pill. Their reasoning was that their medical treatment of the woman would result in ending a pregnancy, which is against Church doctrine.
The state's Health Minister Babara Steffens then said that they had failed to offer the woman thorough medical treatment and that their choice put the service available at NRW's Catholic health facilities into question.
“Now there is clarity for the future,” the state's Catholic office told the paper. The head of the office had asked for a clear opinion on the matter from the Archbishop, to prevent confusion.
Steffens called the Archbishop's decision “an important signal for securing the availability of thorough treatment for women in need at Catholic hospitals.” That other Bishops have agreed, meant that Steffens would not have to take legal action to make the pill available in Catholic institutions.
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Just saying it seems inconsistent.
The difference, medically, might be significant. The difference, as measured by the end result, is null. They Church needed to handle this as a PR thing, so they had to find some way to save the situation while, supposedly, not compromising their claims of power.
A great example of this logic just happened in Colorado in the US. A church hospital is being sued because a women 28 weeks pregnant with twins died while waiting for treatment in the ER. The twins died too. The church took the position that they couldn't be charged with the death of the twins because state law defines a 'life" as beginning with birth.
Immediately the outrage broke, and when everyone questioned their "life begins at conception (except if it's going to cost us a bunch of money)" position they flipped, now saying there was miss-communication between the hospital and their lawyers.
In the end it's all about the same thing. The church want's power and money, and that's all that matters.
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