A Christian's View on Abortion

A Christian's View on Abortion

An Abortion is the medical procedure of inducing expulsion of a human

foetus to terminate a pregnancy. Doctors use the term "abortion" to

mean any death of a baby in the womb of its mother and the expulsion

from the body. This sometimes happens at its own accord: this is

usually called a miscarriage. However, what most of us mean by

"abortion" is really a procured abortion. This is when the foetus or

growing child is deliberately killed and removed from the womb.

Abortion used to be a crime. In Ireland and a lot of other places, but

in most western countries the laws have changed and today it is

possible to get a legal abortion. Since 1973 the law in the USA has

said that a woman has the right to have her pregnancy ended in this

way if she wants to. She does not have to give any reason for this

except that she wants it done. Following a Supreme Court review of the

law in1989, some states have passed laws making abortion more

difficult to obtain, in particular by restricting the number of

abortions that can be performed on State property.

The law in the UK states that an abortion can be performed up to the

end of the 24th week of pregnancy if two doctors agree that:

* To continue the pregnancy would involve a risk of injury to the

physical or mental health of the pregnant women greater than the

risks involved in having an abortion;

* That to continue the pregnancy would involve risk of injury to the

physical or mental health of any existing children of the pregnant

women greater than the risks involved in her having an abortion.

However, the law would allow an abortion ...

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...m with the parents. In every

foetus God has made a completely new human being. Human life is given

by God, so all people mist realise, only God can end life that was

given by him".

In conclusion I believe that yes, a Christian could approve of

abortion. One of the ways in which a Christian could approve an

abortion would be if the mothers' life is at risk and the baby has to

be aborted because to a lot of people abortion is wrong and is "the

devils work". I believe that the only way that a Christian could

approve of abortion would be through the "most loving course of

action" or if the mothers' life was at risk. Another way a Christian

could approve of abortion, I believe would be if the child was at a

point of viability (the baby was old enough, 24 weeks, to survive on

its own after being taken out of the womb).