"principle of double effect" opens a slippery slope, see ectopic pregnancies

To be as curteous as possible, I think my opponent has contradicted himself. In talking about slippery slope, my opponent has in fact accidently used the slippery slope himself with his assertion. To clarify what that is, he relates the pro-lifer argument of "the end justifies the means" to abortion when removing the fellopian tube in order to save the mothers life, to an evil action. However, not even an avid pro-lifer could argue that an ectopic pregancy is an evil means. As I pointed out in the opening round, an ectopic pregnancy is not evil, but neccesary. Theo nly chance of saving both the mother and the babies life. To not perform one, means to kill both. By the end of the 19th century, the mortality rate dropped to five percent because of surgical intervention. Statistics suggest with current advances in early detection, the mortality rate has improved to less than five in 10,000. http://www.medicinenet.com...However with an ectopic pregancy there is the chance to save both (though the saving of the baby if VERY rare, and in my research, I could only find one particular amazing example of both surviving).http://www.telegraph.co.uk...It's hard to even relate ectopic surgery to abortion, in the first place, because in an ectopic surgery, the mother genereally isn't trying to "Get rid" of the baby for lack of better words. It's simply a matter of scientific survival and neccesity.However, I strayed a little off the point. My point was the my opponent I think mis-understands the slippey slope argumen in his response, and uses it himself, in his assertion that an ectopic surgery is an evil means.So while my opponent is wrong factually completely, and mis-understands the concept of an ectopic surgery completely, I am going to just play along and still show you how his argument is invalid.ncyBut before I can de-bunk this, we need to establish what the difference is between an abortion and an ectopic pregnancy.Ectopic Pregnancy: Ectopic pregnancy is when the fertilized egg, instead of settling down in the woman's uterus where it belongs, decides to "take root" somewhere in the Fallopian tube. The fetus grows, bursts the internal organs not designed to accommodate a pregnancy, causes massive internal bleeding, and kills the mother and itself in the process.Abortion: Abortion is defined as the direct killing of the fruit of conception (i.e. beginning with the embryo), willed either as a end or a means, whatever the means used (such as accelerated birth, craniotomy, laparotomy, cesarean, the abortion pill, etc.). http://inquisition.ca...Now my opponents assertion in this debate, is that an Ectopic pregnancy is a clever way to disguise having an abortion, which is exactly what I am talking about when I say he himself uses the slippery slope. By definition, the two are completely different. An abortion is where someone willingly wants to lose a child (for various reasons, I do not feel the need to get into). However, somewhere along the lines of make believe land, and reality, my opponent seems to think that an abortion is even possible in an ectopic situation. Either that or he equates them to being the same thing. The reason why they are not, is because without the surgery, there is a very very high plausibility of death for both parties, while with the surgery, the is a chance that both can survive (though statistically the mother has a much higher rate of survival, and the chance of the fetus surviving is 5 in 10,000). None-the-less, the difference is almost tangible, and an ectopic surgery is extremely different from an abortion.With the facts and evidence I have provided, I think it's sufficient to say that the double effect argument does not relate to the slippery slope, especially in this example.