Explain how Christians would respond to the issue of abortion and euthanasia.

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Q. Explain how Christians would respond to the issue of abortion and euthanasia.

Abortion is the deliberate ending of an unborn child in the womb of its mother and is offered to any pregnant women who wishes to terminate the baby, but to Christians it is wrong in to allow an abortion and Christians also campaign to stop abortion being so freely offered to people of any cases.

Euthanasia is a way of ending a persons life in a painless way and is offered to people with great pain from an illness and can be offered to absolutely anyone, if their ill or not, in some countries. This can be called mercy killing. Also Christians feel very strongly against euthanasia and have set up help so that people avoid euthanasia.

 Roman Catholics are against abortion in all cases, except for the case that both the mother and the child will die. Some Catholics would protest outside of an abortion clinic and show the people that abortion is wrong and that Catholics offer lots of support instead of the women having to go through an abortion. Others may put pressure on local MP’s to get the law changed so that at least abortion is not offered so freely to anyone. They could do this by getting as many signatures as possible on a petition and have many letters sent to them. Catholics would recommend to people, who want an abortion, to go visit Catholic Care, an organisation set up to offer advice Residential care for children, Services for adults with learning disabilities, Supported housing for people with mental illness, Field social work teams and others things so that the women would not have to get an abortion. The majority of Catholics would recommend people to go to the LIFE organisation because they offer care, counselling, financial help/support, education and housing if needed. They offer these things to almost anyone.

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Other Christians (e.g. Anglicans, Methodists and Quakers etc) believe that Abortion is the lesser of the two evils and that there are unavoidable situations in which women become pregnant, like rape. These denominations believe that abortion is only allowed in 3 other situations: Rape, Handicap and risking the health of the mother. They allow these cases out of an act of compassion which Christians do not show. The Methodists church says that “abortion is always evil” but they do, in some cases, accept it as the lesser of two evils and will not support to make abortions illegal. Although ...

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