We do not agree [with Archbishop Fisichella] that the "decision is hard... for the moral law itself". Our Holy Church continues to proclaim that the moral law is exceedingly clear: it is never licit to eliminate the life of an innocent person to save another life. The objective facts are these: there are doctors who explicitly declare that they perform and will continue to perform abortions, while others declare with the same firmness that they will never perform abortions. Here is the declaration written and signed by a Brazilian Catholic physician: "...As an obstetrician for 50 years, graduated in the National Medical School of the University of Brazil, and former chief of Obstetrics in the Hospital of Andarai [Rio de Janeiro], in which I served for 35 years until I retired in order to dedicate myself to the Diaconate, and having delivered 4,524 babies, many from juvenile [mothers], I never had to resort to an abortion to 'save lives', as well as all my colleagues, sincere and honest in their profession and faithful to their Hippocratic oath. ..."
Recife-PE, March 16, 2009
Fr. Edson Rodrigues
Parish priest of Alagoinha-PE - Diocese of Pesqueira
Mons. Edvaldo Bezerra da Silva
Vicar General - Archdiocese of Olinda e Recife
Fr Moisés Ferreira de Lima
Rector of the Archdiocesan Seminary
Dr. Márcio Miranda
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