Abortion key points

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  • Created on: 28-02-17 18:26
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  • Abortion
    • Church of England
      • potential human being deserves respect and protection
      • Allowed in some cases:
        • **** or insest
        • serious threat mental or physical health
      • Abortion and the Church, issues:
        • "to decide the lesser of 2 evils"
        • "imperfect world"
        • "sometimes acceptable"
          • "to decide the lesser of 2 evils"
        • genuine dilemma and pain which should be minimised
      • Rev. John Habgood:
        • "but it is not yet a person in full sense of the world"
        • "Personhood is acquires through the process of gestation"
    • Abortion act Law 1967, foetus of 28 weeks
      • Allowed:
        • serious risk of mental health to mother or baby
        • two doctors present
      • Changed in 1990 to 24 weeks
    • Roman Catholic Church
      • Abortion is a sinful act and is morally wrong
      • At the moment of conception is when a human being receives their soul
      • life is preciouss
        • "God gives life and God can only take it away" Job 1:21
        • "human's are created in the image of God" Genesis 1:26
      • Against Natural Law
        • Human Vitae
      • ****
        • RCC condemn ****
        • doesn't not justify another sinful act of abortion
    • Abortion kills innocent beings
    • Life begins at conception?
      • Pro
        • RCC, sacred from that moment
        • has a soul
        • unique genetic code
        • "innocent individual"
        • interrupts growing process
        • intrinsic evil
        • humans  should not interfere with Gods intention
      • Cons
        • begins when the heart can beat for itself
        • viable to survive alone
        • fully formed in the womb
        • when baby can respond to pain

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