Explain how Christians might put their beliefs about abortion into action.

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Nicky Baines                                   10s1           R.S          01/05/04

Explain how Christians might put their beliefs about abortion into action.

Most Christians are against abortion under most circumstances because they believe that the foetus is a living being and should be treated equally with everyone else and it has right to live too. By killing it they would see it as committing murder, disagree with it in this way because in the Ten Commandments it says “thou shall not murder”

Killing the foetus is disobeying this commandment which is not allowed in the Christian faith. Also god made us as curators of the earth above everything else and we should protect it and everything else on it.

However others would accept abortion under certain circumstances because if there was a valid reason for aborting the foetus then the C of E and other pacifist churches would accept it for example if the foetus is seriously handicapped and it wouldn’t be fair to bring it into the world, the mother would not be able to manage it or there was conception during forced intercourse (rape).

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There is a group of Christians called living springs who are situated above a café and Christian book shop in Stourbridge. This Christian group help by trying to persuade pregnant woman who want an abortion not to by telling them that there are other solutions to abortion. But they don’t force them not to have an abortion because they believe that everybody has a free will and we can do what we want. They just show you different alternatives to abortion by giving you information on adoption like leaflets and adoption agencies. They also help people who don’t know ...

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