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Abortion and Euthanasia: Explain how Christians would respond to these issues
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AO2 Abortion and Euthanasia: Explain how Christians would respond to these issues. In your own answer you should refer to different attitudes that Christians have to these issues as well as practical ways that Christians might offer support. Abortion is when a woman's pregnancy is deliberately terminated before the unborn child is fully formed and therefore foetus dies. Christians believe that they were created by God and have a duty to care for all life and everything in the world. "Made in God's image and likeness" Genesis 1:27. "Life must be protected with the utmost care from the moment of conception; abortion and infanticide are the most abominable of crimes" Statement from the Roman Catholic Church The Roman Catholic Church strongly opposes abortion under every circumstance except when it is the inevitable result of a necessary treatment given to the mother. The Roman Catholic teaching that the foetus is a human being from the...
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