Only very rarely does this Blog venture into fields outside the immediate life of the Order of Saint John, and that only where there are matters directly concerning ethics and morals, where our duty of Tuitio Fidei requires a reaction.
One such arises now, an international proposal to remove in most cases the right to conscientious objection on the part of medical practitioners, (this is, as in the Great War, almost always concerned with killing people.)
The text concerned reads:
“Physicians have an ethical obligation to minimize interruptions in patient care. Conscientious objection should only be considered if the individual patient is not discriminated against or disadvantaged, the patient's health is not in jeopardy, and continuity of care without delay is ensured through effective and timely referral to another qualified physician."
In other words, conscientious objection would be limited:
* If it is considered that not performing an abortion is discrimination, it would be outside the Ethical Code.
* If it is considered that not performing an abortion is an attack on health understood as the state of well-being.
* An objector is obliged to refer his patient to another practitioner who does not object, in other words, collaborate with what he objects to.
The burden of proof will be shifted on to the medical practitioner to justify his objection.
Please look at the information at the link HERE, and we encourage you to sign the PETITION if you feel this within your moral compass.
Finally, please pray that this advancing onslaught of evil, which threatens every ethical base in all walks of our life and even in the Church, whose Holy Motherhood some would seek to corrupt, may be crushed by the prayers of the saints. We suggest you invoke Saint Gianna Beretta Molla, newly canonised, pediatrician, and patroness of mothers and unborn children.
Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum!
Beata Maria de Phileremo, ora pro nobis
Sancta Gianna Beretta Molla, or pro nobis
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