Catholic Church Excommunicates Nun Who Helped Provide Life Saving Abortion

Catholic Church Excommunicates Nun Who Helped Provide Life Saving Abortion | LezGet Real

The Catholic Church is so determined to enforce a ban on all abortions that they have recently punished a nun for providing an abortion in order to save a woman’s life. The woman who had to have the abortion to survive was gravely ill and the abortion was the only way to save her life. What compounds it is that, without the abortion, it is likely that they would have lost both mother and fetus.

Sister Margaret McBride was a nun and administrator at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center. After helping to provide the abortion, she was automatically excommunicated from Catholicism. She sat on the ethics board that included doctors who agreed that the woman, who was eleven weeks pregnant, should have an abortion. They agreed that without it the woman would die. Read more.