Abortion and Euthanasia

Abortion and Euthanasia

Abortion is an operation carried out to remove the growing foetus from

its Mothers womb so that it can be destroyed. In the UK abortion has

been legal since 1967, when it was passed in parliament. The act says

abortion is acceptable if the pregnancy is no longer than 24 weeks.

The pregnancy involves the risks to the mental or physical health of

the pregnant women or any existing children of the family. There are

many points against abortion, these are: The unborn child is a

separate human being. It is never just part of a Mothers body. By

letting women have abortions, society is taking the easy way out. We

should create a society were no child is unwanted. A foetus has a

right not to be killed. People with the most serious handicaps can

still lead a happy life. A foetus is a potential human being; one day

it could be a person. Human life is sacred, this means life is

precious and that no one has the right to take life away only God. The

Christian church teaches life is a sacred gift. The Roman Catholic

Church states that life starts from contraception and should be valued

the same as a living breathing being. A Christian’s duty is to endorse

goodwill and treat others with respect and understanding and to value

them as people, so it should also be a Christians responsibility to

value an unborn child that way. Most denominations believe that as

soon as sexual intercourse has taken place if an insemination occurs

that foetus is a person, a person that god created for purpose and

nobody should take away that child’s right to life. In the Ten

Commandments God sates, ‘thou shalt not kill’. This is a direct order

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...t for them to enforce upon others, it is indeed their choice to

see the world like this but not their right to make other people live

this way. Everybody holds their own beliefs on all moral issues and

they will act o their best judgement depending upon what these are.

Many of today’s modern churches such as The Orthodox Church and The

Quakers that have a more relaxed view on practicing their beliefs.

They do not try to convert anybody against their will. This is the

attitude needed by all Christians from whatever denomination in

today’s ever-changing world. Faith is low among all believers and

non-believers because of all of modern societies ills. Many question

why God allows the world and it’s people to endure so many horrors and

until these ills vanish Christians could not enforce their views

successfully on others.