The excommunication of Margaret McBride occurred with the sanctioning by the American religious sister Margaret McBride in November 2009 of an abortion...

Catholic Eparchy of Passaic in New Jersey. In May 2010, Olmsted declared that Sister Margaret McBride, a member of the ethics committee of St. Joseph’s Hospital...

Margaret McBride, a nun, for allowing an abortion. McBride later reconciled with the Church and is no longer living in a state of excommunication. In...

those who have performed abortion is up to the local bishop. Excommunication of Margaret McBride "Book VI - Penal Sanctions in the Church" (PDF). The Holy...

sententiae excommunication, on the grounds that direct abortion cannot be justified. As of December 2011[update], the hospital stated that McBride had reconciled...

as a matter of doctrine, some Catholic bishops have refused or threatened to refuse communion, or threatened to declare excommunication upon Catholic...

ethics, the sanctity of life, sometimes described as the inviolability of life, is a principle of implied protection regarding aspects of sentient life that...

Savita Andanappa Yalagi; 9 September 1981 – 28 October 2012) was a dentist of Indian origin, living in Ireland, who died from sepsis after her request for...

would endanger the mother's life. The 1983 Code of Canon Law says that latae sententiae excommunication is incurred by "a person who procures a completed...

were threatened with excommunication if they did not leave the organization. Kissling responded by saying that people in favor of abortion rights who consider...