RE MOLAD Abortion Mindmap
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- Created on: 02-12-15 20:19
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- Abortion
- The law
- A foetus can be aborted legally up to 24 weeks.
- A baby can survive outside the womb after 22 weeks, with medical advancement
- It must be signed off by two doctors.
- The baby's or mother's life must be impacted negatively if the foetus was born for the abortion to be allowed.
- Christian views on abortion
- Catholics
- Abortion is morally wrong
- Life is a gift from God and begins at conception
- Abortion is acceptable in ectopic pregnancies
- Sanctity of life - life is sacred
- 'God created man in his own image'
- The Lord God formed man and breathed life into him
- Protestants
- Situation ethics - what is right in the situation
- Jesus is an example of agape - selfless love.
- What is the kindest thing to do?
- Quality of life for the baby, mother an dfamily
- Catholics
- When does life begin?
- Catholics - at conception and ensoulment
- When the baby has independent movement
- When the foetus could survive outside the womb
- For
- A woman should be able to do what she wants with her own body.
- A foetus isn't alive until it can survive outside of the womb
- Sometimes the baby's life would be terrible - disabled
- Against
- Our bodies belong to God, so we don't have any right to them
- 'Don't you know your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you. You do not belong to yourselves but to God.
- A baby get s a soul when its conceived - abortion is murder
- Our bodies belong to God, so we don't have any right to them
- The law
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