2010 Archive
- A Legal Bombshell Hits Stem Cell Science
- Have Stem Cells Become Passé?
- Illegal Immigration and Catholic Social Teaching
- The Difference God Makes
- How are Christians to Engage the Culture?
- In Vitro Fertilization - Why Not?
- The Long Ascent to Calvary
- Healthcare, Human Life and America
- Why I Didn’t Give Up Facebook for Lent
- Our Sex-Crazed Culture
- The Unimportance of Sex
- Recovery in the Big Easy
- Catholic Teaching on Assisted Nutrition and Hydration
- Haiti
- What’s Wrong With Us?
- Challenging Totalitarianism in 2010
| White Paper. Emergency Contraceptives & Catholic Healthcare |
 The question of the licitness of providing “emergency contraceptives” to victims ofsexual assault who present in the emergency rooms at Catholic hospitals is a critical matter for evaluating and developing appropriate protocols for sexual assault victims. An examination of the available scientific studies demonstrates that the most common emergency contraceptive—Plan B, generally administered to prevent ovulation—at times may fail to prevent conception from taking place and instead may prompt an early abortion. This necessitates answering the question of when, and under what circumstances, it is morally licit to provide contraceptive medications to sexual assault victims while avoiding the potential outcome of prompting an early abortion.
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