The Roman Catholic Church believes that doctoring of double effect is acceptable. This is when a woman has an entopic pregnancy. The egg occasionally gets trapped in the fallopian tube, the foetus will continue to develop and in time, it will rupture. This will lead to the mother’s death. The doctor would want to save the mothers life by operating on her. As a consequence of the surgery the foetus will die. This is not the same as an abortion because an abortion is when you deliberately set out to exterminate the foetus. This situation is acceptable because the doctor is setting out to save the mothers life not to kill the foetus.
The Methodist Church teaches that abortion is immoral but is all right in certain circumstances. These are if the mother’s health or life is in direct threat or the birth of a severely abnormal child. Abortion can be justified if the mother has no residence and cannot support her child. This might be because she has no job and therefore has no money or she already has a child and will not be able to take parental control of them both.
The Church of England has the same view as the Roman Catholic Church but they also believe that abortion is acceptable in strictly limited circumstances. They believe that all humans’ life including the foetus is created by God, in his own image and is therefore to be nurtured and supported. However, if the pregnancy threatens the life of the mother or if the baby is going to be born with a serious disability and will only survive for a very short time, an abortion may be justified.
A pro-life Christian is a person who believes the foetus is a living human being, with full human rights to life. They believe that abortion is immoral in all situations this is because abortion is murder as life begins at conception. The bible says ‘Before I was born, the Lord chose me and appointed me to be his servant’ in Isaiah 49:1 which means that the foetus already has a goal in life and that an abortion is stopping it.
A pro-choice Christian believes that a woman had the right to choose if she wants an abortion or not. This is because it is a part of the woman until she has given birth, so it is like eradicating an unnecessary organ, in addition, God gave her independence and freewill to choose what she thinks is right for her.