Vatican says automatic excommunication for using 'morning-after pill.'

From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: March 4, 1994 | Copyright information

Women who purposely stop a pregnancy by using a "morning-after pill" incur automatic excommunication, said a Feb. 23 article in the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano.

Like abortion, pills that prevent a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterine wall "destroy a human being already called into existence even if it was not wanted and was conceived in a casual encounter," said Francis-can Fr. Gino Concetti, a moral theologian who writes for the newspaper.

According to canon law, "a person who procures ...

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