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GCSE Religious Studies · key term
The principle that a good action may be permissible despite a foreseen harmful effect, provided the harm is not intended or used to achieve the good and there is a proportionately serious reason.
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Paper 2
Revise: AbortionIf urgent removal of the diseased uterus is necessary to save her, Catholic teaching can permit the operation under the principle of double effect, even though the pregnancy cannot survive.
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