The question of abortion?

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Abortion? This question is like ones that we have encountered before to do with the seven commandments: If a man's family is starving and there is an unattended lorry filled with food outside his house should he steal from the lorry to feed his family, but in doing this break a commandment. Or should he leave the food so his family dies, but he does not break the commandment. One type of thinking would say that the commandments say "thou shalt not steal" so you should not steal. Another type of thinking would ask the question "which would bring about the greater good, him stealing the food or
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not?", and once they had looked at the individual circumstances they would probably come to the conclusion that the greatest good would come about him stealing the food.If this way of thinking is then applied to the title, then having one strict law would be like having the commandment and should under no circumstances be broken. Having each request for abortion be judged on its own merits would be the one where someone asks the question "what would bring around the greatest good, this woman having abortion or not?" So if each request for abortion is going to be judged ...

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