I am just curious about this. A friend of mine who is catholic recently experienced dysfunctional uterine bleeding. In order to alleviate the blood loss, her doctor prescribed birth control pills to her. There is no other way to treat this at this time other than a hysterectomy which is unacceptable because she plans to have children one day. She wants to ask her priest about taking the pills and I told her that she should just listen to her doctor seeing as how her priest isn't a doctor and can't give her another way to stop the bleeding. So, my question is in the Catholic religion, is she justified in taking the pills to safeguard her health or not? Which takes precedence: her health or the churches teachings on birth control?
Again, I'm just curious. She will probably take the pills regardless because she is tired of the bleeding, iron deficiency, and risk of anemia.
2007-07-03
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