Head of Catholic physicians' group warns of threats to conscientious objection

https://www.ncronline.org/news/world/head-catholic-physicians-group-warns-threats-conscientious-objection
MGB:_The question is not whether they have the legal right to not act to preserve the life and health of the mother when the pregnancy is guaranteed to result in a still birth or the mother’s death from uncontrollable pre-eclampsia (including from trisomy 13) or burst fallopian tube, but whether he or she has a moral or professional right to do so and whether Catholic hospitals allow action in the best interest of the mother when the child is doomed.

It comes down to the question of whether they believe that God is an ogre who will punish them for doing what is needed, even if it does not fit in with what they were taught or what looks good to the hierarchy or ”morally consistent,” which is another term for moral cowardice. For my part, I promise you that anyone who claims that God won’ like it if I throw someone off the boat will be the first to go (or the one we eat).