Carol demonstrated that adoption is a good alternative to abortion and that adoption can make the child, the new parents and the biological parents happy.
Another alternative to abortion is for the parents to keep the baby themselves. An example of this is the story of a father fighting to keep his baby alive. A college student found that his ex-girlfriend was pregnant and that she was planning to have the baby aborted. She refused to not have the abortion and so the father took the case to court. SPUC (The society for the Protection of the Unborn Child) raised forty thousand pounds for the father’s legal fees. The case was presented to the House of Lords but all the fathers legal attempts failed and his ex-girlfriend was given permission to have the abortion on health grounds. However, the girl was so impressed by the father’s attempts to save the baby that she decided not to go ahead with the abortion and instead hand the baby over to the father after the birth. The father left Oxford University, raised the baby boy and later went back to complete his studies.
The father demonstrated that keeping the baby is another alternative to abortion in which both parties are happy.
There are many charities as well as SPUC (Society for the protection of the Unborn Child), such as the pro-life newspaper that is founded in Ireland. This is a newspaper that is distributed throughout the whole of Great Britain and gives information and updates on everything to do with Abortion and the unborn child. Many Christians fund these charities in order to gain media attention to their solid belief in the sanctity of life.
Different denominations have different views on abortion for example the Roman Catholics have an absolute morality. This is demonstrated by a speech that His Holiness John Paul II gave on October 1st nineteen seventy nine which states, “So I say to all, have an absolute and holy respect for the sacredness of human life from the first moment of it’s conception. Abortion, as the Vatican Council states, is one of the ‘abominable crimes’. To attack unborn life at any moment of its contraception is to undermine the whole moral order, which is the true guardian of the well being of man. The defence of the absolute inviolability of the unborn life is part of the defence of human rights and human dignity.” The Roman Catholic Church supported a twelve years old girl from Glasgow throughout her pregnancy and after rather
than abort the baby. This shows how strong the Roman Catholic belief in the sanctity of life is.
The Church of England and the Methodist Church have a relative morality towards abortion. In February nineteen ninety three The General Synod of the Church of England passed a resolution on the subject of abortion, which was the first for ten years. This lengthy resolution could manage no stronger statement about abortion than it was ’a procedure which should not be undertaken lightly but only after the most serious moral reflection’. The Methodist Statement on abortion concedes that ‘every foetus has significance’ and allows abortion as ‘morally justifiable’ in the cases of handicap, large families, poverty and bad housing.
For advise on abortion woman can consult :
- Biblical teachings
- Church Teachings
- Priests and Vicars
- Their Own Conscience
After consulting these things this it is very difficult to argue in favour of abortion if the woman is a Christian.
