Roman Catholic views on Abortion and Euthanasia
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Roman Catholic views on Abortion and Euthanasia By Georgia Colderwood Abortion and Euthanasia are very controversial subjects in the world today, Particularly in the eyes of the Roman Catholic Church. The Roman Catholic Church believes that that any deliberate abortion or death is a very serious sin in all circumstances. The only person to give life and take life is God, and he will choose when the time is right for us to enter and depart the world. The Catholic Church believes that human life begins at conception; when the egg and sperm fuse together. From that moment on the baby is sacred and should be protected. To kill a baby is a sin, and an action of pure evil. The same with death, it is an action of evil. The church holds that every abortion--the willful killing of a human embryo or fetus--is a grave moral evil. The only reason accepted by the...

