Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Christian attitudes to
abortion.
- Protestant
- Life doesn't begin at conception.
- Abortion may be the most loving
thing to do and Jesus teaches us
to love each other.
- The sanctity of life can be broken
in a just war so why not in a just
abortion.
- If abortion is made illegal poor women may get dangerous
backstreet abortions and rich women will just go abroad.
- They should accept new technology that could show if a baby is seriously
disabled and therefore would not have a good quality of life if kept alive.
- Catholic / Evangelical
- Life is holy and only belongs to God.
- The Ten Commandments says that taking a life is
against the laws of God.
- Putting a baby up for adoption is a better
alternative than having an abortion.
- Every person has a right to life.
- In the case of rape: one sinful act should not
provoke another (having an abortion)
- Life begins at the moment of conception.
- DOUBLE EFFECT It is not abortion if, in saving
the mother, the baby dies however the aim was
not to kill the foetus.