#12189 What Does the Church Teach on Pregnancy Complications and Abortion? - Jimmy Akin
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🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
When pregnancy complications threaten the life of the mother, what does the Catholic Church actually teach? In this episode, Karlo Broussard clarifies the Church’s position on morally complex medical cases. He explains the principle of double effect, what treatments are permissible, and why direct abortion is never considered a moral solution—even in rare or tragic circumstances. If you’ve heard myths about what the Church requires in these cases, this episode brings clarity and compassion.
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Questions Covered:
- 19:17 – What does the church teach on rare pregnancy complications and abortion?
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- 48:09 – At what point does a cardinal who is elected pope pick their new name?
- 51:03 – Is Mary considered the highest creature? If so, how does that relate to how Jesus says John the Baptist is the greatest?
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| 0:36.6 | We'll talk a bit about that. And you know what else we'll talk about? |
| 0:38.8 | Whatever you want, because it's an Ask Me Anything with Jimmy Aiken, both hours today. 8883187-884. And if that's not enough, there'll probably be some groovy music. |
| 0:47.9 | So that's a lot of things going on this hour and next. 8883187-884. Ask Me Anything is open to anyone. You certainly do not |
| 0:58.4 | have to be Catholic to call. And you know what? Your question can be about anything. Jimmy |
| 1:02.7 | loves talking about just about anything. So if you've got a question, you're welcome to call |
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| 1:11.7 | Jimmy Aiken is senior apologist here at Catholic Answers. |
| 1:14.4 | He's the proprietor of Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious World, a very well-known podcast, and then a growing podcast, the Jimmy Aiken podcast. |
| 1:24.2 | And you see him also on many other podcasts, and he's a writer of, I look at the stack of books. |
| 1:28.8 | I could go through some of them, but the Bible is a Catholic book, the father's no best, |
| 1:33.6 | teaching with authority. And the stack, I can work my way through that stack, but it's a lot. |
| 1:39.3 | So we'll just leave it there. Lots of books from Jimmy Aiken. Hey, Jimmy, how are you doing today in day two? I'm doing just fine. How are you doing, Cy? I'm doing pretty well. I'm still, I'll be honest with |
| 1:49.0 | you, a bit flabbergasted that we got an American Pope. I just, that is something, I guess my whole |
| 1:54.7 | life people have been saying, they'll never be an American Pope. And I internalized that. |
| 1:59.5 | Yeah, well, that was the conventional wisdom, and I suspect at one point in time that may have been true, but |
| 2:06.6 | Cardinals, you know, are trying to figure out who the best guy is among their number. |
| 2:14.6 | And I saw a press conference that was being held by various American |
| 2:21.1 | Cardinals today. And they said that they, once they got into the discussions, people from |
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