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Re Coursework Robert Hall Abortion 1) What is meant by the word Abortion? The word abortion is defined by the Roman Catholic Church as the deliberate killing of an unborn foetus. To terminate the life of a foetus accidentally is called a miscarriage. Before 1967, Abortions in England were illegal. If you wanted to have an abortion you had to have what was known as a back street abortion, these were carried out in very unhygienic conditions and could be preformed by people with not any real knowledge of the operation they were performing. If a girl was pregnant without a husband or a father to the child, it would bring shame on a family and be socially wrong. This led to abortions been done in secret. It was illegal for doctors to perform the operation so everything was done in secret. After 1967 the liberal democrats decided to change the legality on abortion and...

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