p/c American Nurse Journal.I had an article go viral recently on the topic of bioethics. Many in the pro-death world were shocked by my words and tried to counter me. Such people were easy to disprove because I sourced secular links into my articles, showing what even non-Christian surgeons were admitting about euthanasia.On the other hand, some people in the pro-life world misunderstood the difference between ordinary care (required by the Catholic Church) and extraordinary care (not always required by the Catholic Church because it’s often disproportionate to what can be accomplished.) Their over-reaction in going even beyond me in bioethical stringency was out of well-placed zeal. So, I don’t blame them for doing this in a world where we traditional Catholics are always swimming upstream. However, we have to delineate between ordinary care and extraordinary care, or people will dismiss ordinary care assertions when we discuss Catholic bioethics with them.

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