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Situational ethics states that certain other moral norms can be disregarded when agape love requires it. This is a variation on teleological ethics, which states that the ends justify the means. One example given by the founder situational ethics, Joseph Fletcher, was that of a woman who had sexual relations with a guard at a Ukranian POW camp in order to get pregnant and be released to return to her family. The argument was that the loving thing to do was return to her family and this end allowed her to achieve it through whatever means necessary.
The Church rejects this ethic because it is wrong to place the demands of love in opposition to the demands of morality, since love seeks to fulfill perfectly the law of morality. The loving thing to do in the above scenario would be for the wife to remain steadfast in her love for her husband and family and not to succumb to pressure. A love which violates the laws of morality is not a love at all. The objective laws of morality cannot be bent to love nor do they have to be, since love is in accord with them.
For more information, see Pope John Paul II's Veritatis Splendor, #71-83.
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