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CDF affirms liceity of removal of wombs it says can no longer procreate

Vatican City, Jan 3, 2019 / 05:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith published Thursday a response clarifying that a hysterectomy is a licit act when a woman’s womb is not suited for procreation and medical experts are certain an eventual pregnancy will bring about a spontaneous abortion before viability.

The CDF’s Response to a question on the liceity of a hysterectomy in certain cases was published Jan. 3. It was signed Dec. 10, 2018, by Cardinal Luis F. Ladaria Ferrer, S.J., prefect, and Archbishop Giacomo Morandi, secretary of the congregation.

The CDF said its response regards

Praise the Lord

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