Explain how Christians may respond to the question of abortion?
b.) Explain how Christians may respond to the question of abortion?
For most people abortion is a sensitive subject. Many women may, at some point throughout their lives, conceive an unwanted child. Abortion has been a point of debate for many decades and different denominations and different Christian groups will respond to this issue in different ways. Christianity as a whole base most of their beliefs on what is taught an preached in the bible. However different denominations of Christianity interpret teachings in different ways and that is why not all Christian groups agree on every question asked about abortion.
For example the Roman Catholic branch of Christianity will respond to the question of abortion very strictly as they believe that it is murder to dispose of a potential human and developing child. Many people that belong to this faith have such strong feelings about the ‘pro-life’ campaign that they have resort to violence. In Middle American there have been several cases where doctors lives have been put in danger because they have performed abortion. Roman Catholics feel very strongly about this because they believe that it is simply the distinction between life and death, and the only right answer ever is always life. There are clinics that have been set up by the Roman Catholics specifically to persuade young and old women not to have abortions and to open their minds to the other possibilities. The RC church thinks it is extremely important to encourage people to not abort their child but also to offer support during the difficult time. Ireland is a Roman Catholic country so abortion was made illegal a time after the act of 1967 because of the strong ‘pro-life’ feelings. Recently there has been an incident where Irish women have left the country t have an abortion and then returned to their home country. Over 7,000 women leave Ireland and travel to the UK, where it is legal, and then return to their home country. The question of abortion has also made people go public about their beliefs through campaigns and protests. In Northern Ireland, where there are very strong pro-life beliefs, Christians and non-Christians united together in the ‘death threat’ billboard campaign. In this particular persuasion of pro-life 100 billboards were put up around Northern Ireland and the strong campaign lasted for 8 weeks. There have been many other Roman Catholic protests such as the ‘vote for life’ election campaign.
