The oral contraceptive pill and the principle of double effect.
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Some clinicians and ethicists in the first group object to the combined OCP based on good indirect evidence that it could cause the death of an early embryo.4 Others in this group broaden their moral opposition to include the primary effect of the OCP: direct suppression of fertility for procreative (family-planning) purposes. For the latter, moral objection to the OCP would continue even if it were proven that it was not an abortifacient. 5
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Ethics & medicine : a Christian perspective on issues in bioethics
دوره 18 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2002