The Roman Catholic church teaches that human life is sacred. Explain how this teaching influences its attitude to abortion and euthanasia, showing that you understand other points of view.

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The Roman Catholic church teaches that human life is sacred. Explain

how this teaching influences its attitude to abortion and euthanasia,

showing that you understand other points of view.

This piece of course work is about the issue of abortion, the

Catholic Churches view on abortion, and the pro and anti abortionists

and the implications it has on modern day society and individuals. The

Catholic Churches view is that all human life is sacred and that

includes a fertilized egg still in the womb.

Founder members of the pro-abortion lobby were well known

eugenicists. Founder members of the feminist movement were opposed to

abortion. Mary Wollstonecraft decried the sexual exploitation of women

was what had caused them to either `destroy the embryo in the womb, or

cast it off when born. But nature in everything demands some sort of

respect'.

Abortion is ending the life of an unborn child or 'foetus' before

it has had the chance to live. This can be induced by drugs or in most

cases a vacuum.

In 1966, with the encouragement of ALRA liberal MP David Steel

decided to sponsor an abortion law reform bill. Its passage through

parliament was far from smooth. Religious groups, government

ministers, doctors and medical organisations all had strong views on

the subject and there were several influential allies that had opposed

to the bill. The bill was then modified to reflect some objections,

but MPs could not ignore the public support for legal abortion. By

1967 Abortion had been legalised in Britain (The Abortion Act).

Almost 97% of abortions are performed on healthy babies that means

that only 3% of abortions were likely to be due to denatured children,
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or a child with a terminal disease that would make there life worse

than death. Although some of the 97% could be due to the mothers

health for instance if she had cancer of the womb and needed the baby

to be removed or she would die as this would be considered to be part

of a double effect, where the main priority is the health of the

mother. Euthanasia the greek word for easy death is the taking of life

to relieve extreme suffering although it is controversial and illegal

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