World Day of the Sick (2/11/22) and Catholic medical ethics

Pope Francis recalls World Day of the Sick at Audience - Vatican News

• The New Charter For Health Care Workers (Vatican, 2017) 
  (A review.)

• "It is everyone’s hope that rape victims, whether pregnant or not, receive the most compassionate and effective care available. Unfortunately, using Plan B and continuing to cite the faulty Peoria Protocol, based upon what we now know, is simply an immoral compromise—with the unintended consequence of the loss of human life and the abandonment of truly loving and courageous Christian health care" (Dr. Chris Kahlenborn, 4/8/19)

Certain other "contraceptives" can act as abortifacients! As it has long been known that other hormonal "contraceptives" can cause early abortions and are deadly dangerous (e.g., 1, 2) and just about every pharmacy (including those in supermarkets and department stores!) provide such, no parish should be allowing advertisements from providers of hormonal "contraceptives

 

• Samaritanus bonus (The Good Samaritan), (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 9/22/2020) - highlighting and annotations added

• EWTN Live show about so-called brain death (8/4/2021) 
  "all those who believe in the sanctity of life, regardless of whether they support or oppose the theoretical validity of brain-death criteria, [should] oppose the use of brain-death criteria to obtain organs for transplantation in clinical practice. We can then, as a single voice, support medical research seeking innovative, morally uncontentious ways to replace failing organs" (National Catholic Register, 10/25/21)

• Letters to Pharmaceutical Companies ["to protest the use of abortion-derived cell lines and advocate for the development of vaccines with no connection to abortion."] (USCCB)

• Children of God for Life
  End the Use of Aborted Children in Science  

re: "Reclaiming the Vocation of Marriage"