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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/124841| Title: | The use of emergency hormonal contraception in cases of rape ─ revisiting the Catholic position |
| Authors: | Mallia, Pierre |
| Keywords: | Contraception -- Moral and ethical aspects Medical ethics -- Decision making Bioethics -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church Rape victims -- Services for Double effect (Ethics) |
| Issue Date: | 2005 |
| Publisher: | Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group |
| Citation: | Mallia, P. (2005). The use of emergency hormonal contraception in cases of rape ─ revisiting the Catholic position. Human Reproduction & Genetic Ethics, 11(2), 35-40. |
| Abstract: | The use of Hormonal Emergency Contraception (EC) in cases of rape is still an area of concern in much of the Catholic Medical Community. The Catholic authorities consider its inherent risk of being abortificient as sufficient reason for it not to be used within and after ovulation as discussed below. Conversely, doctors are faced with the dilemma of giving potentially alarming information (that of impending danger of fertilization) to the patient without being able to offer any help, in a paternalistic way, because of their moral convictions, which may also be legally binding. This article discusses this dilemma in relation to the principle of double effect which is offered as a solution to permit the use of hormonal EC. [excerpt] |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/124841 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacM&SFM |
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