Abortion - Legality, Morality and The Catholic Church. This paper discusses the legal and moral issues surrounding aborion, also the veiw of the catholic church.
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The 1973 United States Supreme Court Roe vs. Wade decisin, while providing for some semblance of legal structure to the political debate over abortion, has led to further question within moral and religious aspects of our society. In that decision, the Court found that a woman had the right to choose whether or not to abort a pregnancy within certain constaints; however, if a fetus were a person, accourding to the Court, abortion would be found …
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…the basis of the ruling- as long as the fetus is not a person the aborting it is a valid and legal option - is unfounded. The human fetus is a person upon conception, and is divinely ensouled as a gift from God as His creation at the same instant. Therefore, the abortion of a pregnancy, at any point, is murder, is morally wrong, and is a sin within the teachings of the Catholic Church.
…the basis of the ruling- as long as the fetus is not a person the aborting it is a valid and legal option - is unfounded. The human fetus is a person upon conception, and is divinely ensouled as a gift from God as His creation at the same instant. Therefore, the abortion of a pregnancy, at any point, is murder, is morally wrong, and is a sin within the teachings of the Catholic Church.
