Explain how Catholics may respond to the question of abortion.

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       In answering this question I intend to describe the catholic response to abortion. Catholics believe that abortion is wrong so I intend to describe how this opinion is formed and why Catholics feel so strongly about it.

       The Catholic Church believes that life begins at conception so therefore to have an abortion is another form of murder and in the Ten Commandments the bible states “thou shall not kill”, In Jeremiah chapter 1 verse 5 God states “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart;

I appointed you as the prophet to the nations” this shows us that God has plans for us and that our lives and everything we do have already been assigned to us, and therefore having an abortion will interrupt Gods plans for us.

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       In forming an opinion on abortion some Catholics would look to the Pope for guidance. The pope is strongly against abortion, we know this because in the Evangelium Vitae the pope stated that “Today there exists a great multiple of weak and defenceless human beings, unborn children in particular, whose fundamental right to life is being trampled upon. If, at the end of the last century, the church could not be silent about the injustices of those times, still less can she be silent today, when the social injustices of the past, unfortunately not yet overcome, are ...

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