Rome, Italy, Feb 22, 2013 / 14:01 pm
The reasoning offered by the German Catholic bishops for allowing the morning-after pill in rape cases is being faulted for citing information that is not medically accurate.
"There is absolutely no such pill with a 100 percent guarantee that it will not cause an abortion," said Dr. Catherine Vierling, who studied medicine at the Universities of Paris and Strasbourg.
The German bishops unanimously agreed on Feb. 21 to allow the morning-after pill to be administered in Catholic health facilities for rape cases, provided that it is administered in a way that "has a preventive and not an abortive effect."
Their decision came after a 25-year-old woman said she was raped and was refused treatment at two Catholic hospitals in Cologne.