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Rome, Italy, Feb 22, 2013 \/ 02:01 pm (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- The reasoning offered by the German Catholic bishops for allowing the morning-after pill in rape cases is being faulted for citing information that is not medically accurate.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThere is absolutely no such pill with a 100 percent guarantee that it will not cause an abortion,\u201d said Dr. Catherine Vierling, who studied medicine at the Universities of Paris and Strasbourg.<\/p>\n

\tThe German bishops unanimously agreed on Feb. 21 to allow the morning-after pill to be administered in Catholic health facilities for rape cases, provided that it is administered in a way that \u201chas a preventive and not an abortive effect.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tTheir decision came after a 25-year-old woman said she was raped and was refused treatment at two Catholic hospitals in Cologne.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cMedical and pharmaceutical methods which result in the death of an embryo still may not be used,\u201d a Feb. 22 statement from the German Bishops\u2019 Conference said.<\/p>\n

\tHowever, as part of their discussion, Cardinal Karl Lehmann, president of the conference\u2019s Commission for Doctrine and Faith, provided a moral and theological evaluation of the morning-after pill \u201con the basis of scientific findings on the availability of new compounds with modified effect.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tBut Vierling disputed the claim that there are new formulations of the pill that only work as contraception.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThat pill has at least four effects, and there is absolutely no pill in the world which could dissociate these four phases,\u201d Vierling told\u00a0CNA on Feb. 22.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThese phases include acidification of the vagina, which destroys sperm,\u201d as well as the prevention of ovulation, she said.<\/p>\n

\tVierling explained the third phase will cause an abortion if an embryo is present because it causes the fallopian tube to lose its ability to move the child into the mother\u2019s womb.<\/p>\n

\tShe noted that \u201cthe fourth phase thins the lining of the uterus, preventing the embryo from implanting itself onto the uterus, so this is also an abortifacient.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tTherefore, she explained, pills taken after sexual intercourse are capable of producing either a contraceptive or abortive effect, depending on whether the woman has ovulated or not.<\/p>\n

\tThere is no new formulation of the morning-after pill that functions only as a contraceptive with no potential to cause early abortions, she stressed.<\/p>\n

\tDr. John Haas, a bioethicist at the National Catholic Bioethics Center and a permanent member of the Pontifical Academy for Life, explained that there are medical tests that can be done to determine whether a woman has ovulated yet at a given time.<\/p>\n

\tOnce tests have determined that ovulation has not taken place \u2013 and that pregnancy has therefore not occurred \u2013 the standard morning-after pill could be used for its contraceptive effects, without making use of its abortifacient potential.<\/p>\n

\tVierling commented that \u201cin the light of the information the German bishops have been given, they wanted to stress that it is always better to avoid conception of a new human being than to abort it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Rome, Italy, Feb 22, 2013 \/ 02:01 pm (CNA\/EWTN News).- The reasoning offered by the German Catholic bishops for allowing the morning-after pill in rape cases is being faulted for citing information that is not medically accurate.<\/p>\n

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