Two challenges to the double effect doctrine: euthanasia.
Namely, how might a Catholic legislator apply the double effect principle to voting for an appropriations bill that gave money both to Planned Parenthood and to health provisions for needy people. Recall that Senator Bob Casey, Jr. and some other Catholic Democratic Senators have voted for appropriation bills that give financial support to Planned Parenthood.
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The principle of double effect helps highlight that one case is congruent with a paradigm, that it enjoys both internal and external certitude. THE ECTOPIC PREGNANCY I have used one case, Lehmkuhl and Bouscaren's solution to the case of the ectopic pregnancy, to illustrate the proper function of the principle of double effect.
The principle of double effect is prominent in legal proceedings especially those involving abortion. The defendants in such cases use the defense of necessity. They have to proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the abortion was necessary in the course of trying to achieve some greater good.
The principle of double effect is used to justify the administration of medication to relieve pain even though it may lead to the unintended, although foreseen, consequence of hastening death by causing respiratory depression.
Keown believes that IOL should be understood as qualified by the Doctrine of Double Effect (DDE). Critics of DDE complain that DDE's crucial distinction between what is intended and what is foreseen, but not intended, is both vague and ambiguous. They also complain that the moral significance of the distinction needs compelling defense.
That gnawing little feeling you get in the back of your head when you consider the consequences of pushing a man in front of a trolley is expressed in the Doctrine of Double Effect. This notion, first introduced by St. Thomas Aquinas in the late 13th century, gives a name to the reason we have trouble accepting that it's OK to push the man onto the tracks.