Catholic abortion doctrine sacrifices the mother’s life because she alone has a soul

Evidence

No reason can be invoked, even the danger of the mother’s death. The pope again declared recently that between the mother’s life and the child’s the former must be sacrificed: the fact is, the mother, being baptized, can enter heaven—curiously, hell never enters into these calculations—while the fetus is condemned to perpetual limbo. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 274

Categorization

• DEFINE: The unborn lack a baptized soul, so they can’t be saved—hence the mother is ‘worth’ protecting for salvation.
• SEED: A piece on how theological accounting of souls perverts ethical triage could use this as its centerpiece.
• XREF: connects to: Christianity abolished maternal magic by lodging life and death in God alone. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 368