Official church teachings are uncompromising over abortion and euthanasia. But there are organizations such as the life movement and S.P.U.C (Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child) that offer counselling, support and material help to women or girls who are pregnant and in distress.
Life is a gift from God. Life is sacred. Life must be preserved because it is very important no matter what age of the person and so the Catholic Church does not agree with abortion or euthanasia and considers these as sins, in all cases.
The Orthodox Church believes that the unborn child needs to be protected. Consequently, the Orthodox Church doesn’t allow abortion or euthanasia.
A Christian organisation “Life” says that life begins at conception therefore, life from this stage should be preserved. Also death is not the end of life for a Christian and all life needs protecting.
We can relate to this issue with the story of the sheep and goats. Jesus is within everyone. Therefore, if we help the vulnerable we are helping Jesus but if we ignore the vulnerable we are ignoring Jesus. From the bible we learn that Jesus helps the sick and dying. So maybe a Christian responsibility is to help the unborn child and the dying to live.
We are all made in Gods image. Each person is a reflection of God and that makes everybody special. So we must keep those at the beginning and the end of life alive and well.
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you”. This quote from the Old Testament suggests that God knows every human soul and the soul’s life-plan even before birth, making all souls precious and important. Christian responsibility is to protect them.
The Roman Catholic Church believes that life should be preserved. But Pope Paul VI said, “The duty of the physician, consists more in reliving pain, than in prolonging life“. Therefore our responsibility to let someone die if they are in a lot of pain and suffering maybe having mercy on him or her.
Like the Catholic Church, the Church of England believes that the unborn child is important. However, the Church of England believes that abortion maybe used if the conception was caused by rape or if the birth will affect the mother’s health. So abortion is morally preferable to any available alternative. I t may be the Christian responsibility to allow abortion in some cases.
Jesus helped those who needed help. Maybe it is the Christians responsibility to help the terminally ill, by allowing them to die and allowing helpless pregnant mothers to have an abortion.
One of the beatitudes states, Happy are the merciful. It would be very Christian to show mercy to those who want to die or have an abortion.
The Anglican Church believes that it is okay to kill the unborn child if the mother life or health is affected. A group called the Humanists who are non-Christians say that you should be able to end you life if you wish.
