The Roman Catholic Church teaches that human life is sacrede. Explain how this teaching influences its attit6ude to abortion and euthananasia, showing that you understand other points of view.

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The Roman Catholic Church teaches that human life is sacrede. Explain how this teaching influences its attit6ude to abortion and euthananasia, showing that you understand other points of view.

The roman catholic church teaches that human life is sacred, this teaching influences us in many ways in abortion and euthanasia, first abortion,

Abortion is the termination of the life of a foetus (baby)

The Roman Catholic Church says

"Never under any pretext may abortion be resorted to either by a family or by the political authority, as a legitimate means of regulating births"

this means abortion is wrong and god is the only one that can choose if your life is over or not.

The United Nations says

" the child by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before aswell as after the birth"

this is saying that abortion is wrong and that it is a human being no matter, if it is still in the womb or not it is killing another human.

In the bible, genesis 1:27 it says

"god created human beings in his own image of god he created them, male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, be fruitful an increase"

this means god created human beings, he created human beings, he created them equal, no matter if there in the womb or not. You should not kill another human being.

" human life is sacred pope paul Vl said all men must recognize that fact."

He is saying that all life is sacred and we must recognize that fact.

The thing that is important is one of the commandments

"THOU SHALL NOT KILL"

this is saying do not kill any life if it is still in the womb or walking about.
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The Church of England says that if the pregnancy threatens a mothers life, but they also believe that the abortion law should be applied more stricly in order to reduce the number of abortions.

The orthodox point of view on this is god created humans in his image and likeness. From the moment of conception new life begins, and should therefore be offered dignity and respect. They condemn abortion except in rare cases E.G if the mother's life is at risk.

The Quakers point of view is that they don't have a specific statement at ...

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