Sterilization which has the sole immediate effect of preventing conception is considered indirect sterilization and thus ethically permissible by the Catholic Church if the intention is the care or prevention of physiological or mental illness which is foreseen or feared as a result of pregnancy.
Sterilization which has the sole immediate effect of preventing conception is considered indirect sterilization and thus ethically permissible by the Catholic Church if the intention is the care or prevention of physiological or mental illness which is foreseen or feared as a result of pregnancy.
Such an action violates the principle of the double effect in that it uses an evil means to a good end. See p. 290.
Sterilization which has the sole immediate effect of preventing conception is considered indirect sterilization and thus ethically permissible by the Catholic Church if the intention is the care or prevention of physiological or mental illness which is foreseen or feared as a result of pregnancy.
Such an action violates the principle of the double effect in that it uses an evil means to a good end. See p. 290.