Source: https://icln.at/resources/protection-of-life/
Timestamp: 2019-02-22 14:32:29
Document Index: 639001985

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 2270', '§ 2271', '§ 2280', '§ 2281', '§ 2282', '§ 2370']

Protection of Life – ICLN
§ 2270 Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. From the first moment of his existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person – among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life.
§ 2271 Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law:
§ 2280 We are stewards, not owners, of the life God has entrusted to us. It is not ours to dispose of.
§ 2281 Suicide is contrary to love for the living God.
§ 2282 Voluntary co-operation in suicide is contrary to the moral law.
Declaration on Euthanasia – May 5, 1980
§ 2370 Periodic continence, that is, the methods of birth regulation based on self-observation and the use of infertile periods, is in conformity with the objective criteria of morality.158 These methods respect the bodies of the spouses, encourage tenderness between them, and favor the education of an authentic freedom. In contrast, “every action which, whether in anticipation of the conjugal act, or in its accomplishment, or in the development of its natural consequences, proposes, whether as an end or as a means, to render procreation impossible” is intrinsically evil:159