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Abortion: The value of life can not be questioned.

The value of life cannot be questioned. A murderer will pay for his crimes, so will anyone who kills another without cause be punished by god and society. But, this issue of abortion goes further then the taking of a human life. Abortion requires a great amount of thought into what is just and does a pregnant woman have the right to decide. There are many different points of view on this issue, but generally speaking, the Christian doctrine determines that the sanctity of life must be preserved at all levels, so the questions we must ask ourselves are; At what point is a life begun, and can it be ethically justified to abort in controversial circumstances.
Let us scrutinize what is actually happening when abortion takes place. A woman becomes pregnant; she wishes to come to an end with this pregnancy for a variety of reasons. The key issue to determining whether this abortion is right or wrong is whether the woman is destroying a human life, or simply inhibiting a life to begin. W...

Posted by: Gabrielle Gooch

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