Abortion & Euthanasia
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Kyriacos Kadis Abortion & Euthanasia R.E. coursework 1. The Roman Catholic Church teaches that human life is scared. This teaching influences its attitude to abortion and euthanasia. The word abortion means to end someone's life before they have been born, including miscarriages but this ends naturally. When people talk about abortion they are talking about pregnancies which end deliberately. In Britain there are about 180,000 abortions every year with an average of about one every there minutes. An abortion takes about 20 minutes and costs £350 in a private clinic. I think many of these abortions are not necessary. In Britain abortion has been legal since 1967. Before it was legal people had back street abortions which were very dangerous and were illegal. There were about 200,000 back street abortions every year and around 60 women died every year as a result of this. Some people say it is "premature expulsion of the...

