also about tansplant surgery
2007-10-19 09:56:02 · 11 answers · asked by Julia B 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Catholic Church teaches:
Organ transplants (including blood transfusions) are in conformity with the moral law if the physical and psychological dangers and risks incurred by the donor are proportionate to the good sought for the recipient.
Donation of organs after death is a noble and meritorious act and is to be encouraged as a manifestation of generous solidarity.
It is not morally acceptable if the donor or those who legitimately speak for him have not given their explicit consent.
Pope John Paul II's encyclical Evangelium Vitae states:
1. Organ and tissue donation is heroic and praiseworthy.
2. The donor must be dead before organs and tissue can be harvested.
3. The determination of death is left to medical experts.
By the way, Pope Benedict XVI is a registered organ doner: http://www.donatelifeny.org/pdf/ratzinger_an_act_of_love.pdf
For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, section 2296: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt3sect2chpt2art5.htm#2296
Or the Encyclical EVANGELIUM VITAE: http://www.vatican.va/edocs/ENG0141/_INDEX.HTM
With love in Christ.
2007-10-19 17:10:13 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches:
2296 Organ transplants are in conformity with the moral law if the physical and psychological dangers and risks to the donor are proportionate to the good sought for the recipient. Organ donation after death is a noble and meritorious act and is to be encouraged as a expression of generous solidarity. It is not morally acceptable if the donor or his proxy has not given explicit consent. Moreover, it is not morally admissible to bring about the disabling mutilation or death of a human being, even in order to delay the death of other persons.
Blood transfusions are morally acceptable as well.
2007-10-23 03:47:25 · answer #2 · answered by Daver 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is nothing wrong with blood transfusions.
The JW's claim that the Bible forbids blood transfusion. This is a highly dangerous doctrine. It is also quite wrong. Typical texts quoted by Witnesses are Leviticus 17:10, 14, and Acts 15:29. Insofar as these texts refer to abstaining from blood they are simply dietary rules which were obeyed by the Jewish people until the time of Christ. The apostles made a temporary rule that new Christians should abstain from blood, but it is clear that this was done as a compromise to pacify the Jewish Christians and to avoid giving scandal to them. It is stretching the meaning of these texts beyond all sense to make them forbid blood transfusions. It is one thing to drink the blood of an animal or to eat meat that has blood in it and quite a different thing to receive a blood transfusion.
2007-10-19 09:59:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
all religious beliefs aside....
would you rather:
1. Be given a chance to have your life saved?
2. Suffer enormous amounts of pain and a slow death?
in MY OPINION people whose beliefs do not allow them to have transfusions or transplants etc etc are only going to kill themselves off. It's like they are implying a moral suicide. When has suicide ever been part of morality?
Not long ago there was a huge legal battle between families concerning a young girl who desperately needed a transfusion but her parent would not allow it (based on their beliefs). It was so sad because this girl was left to die when today's medicine could have saved her life...
2007-10-19 10:09:43 · answer #4 · answered by JD 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Catholic Church allows both blood transfusions and organ transplants. Donoation of blood and organs is considered an heroic act.
The only caveat is that the organ donation cannot cause the death of the donor.....and so-called 'brain death' is not actually death.
2007-10-20 05:07:20 · answer #5 · answered by Mommy_to_seven 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
what does being catholic have to do with that whatsoever? God probably knew people were gonna need that someday, so he made people that were smart enough to come up with the idea of transfusions to save other people's life.
2007-10-19 10:00:24 · answer #6 · answered by fire4christ111 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Where does it say that catholics can't get a blood transfusion or a transplant?
I thought that was just the JW's. ?
2007-10-19 09:59:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
C.C. is correct. The Church does not forbid blood transfusions.
2007-10-19 10:09:57 · answer #8 · answered by Yogini 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Catholic teaching permits both.
2007-10-19 10:00:12 · answer #9 · answered by A.M.D.G 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Catholics don't believe the same as the JW's, they have nothing again transplants,
I have had three transplants.
2007-10-19 10:06:25 · answer #10 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋