have to agree is not a good thing.The Catholic Church holds the view that abortion is wrong. They believe that to justify the killing of an unborn child one would also have to justify the killing of any human being given the same set of circumstances. A fetus has as much right to live as anyone else. There are many Christians who would disagree with this view, they would say that the unborn child has the right to live, and that it is preferable that they be allowed to do so. They would not, however, see this right as being all-important. They believe that there are circumstances in which terminating an unborn fetus is justified. This is demonstrated by the official stance of the Church of England. Although the church and I believe that the fetus is to be specially respected and protected, nonetheless, the life of the fetus is not absolutely sacrosanct if it endangers the life of the mother.The anti abortionists using many of the arguments given above contest this view, that the life of the mother is more important than that of the unborn child. The fetus is a human being and so to have an abortion simply to save the mother's life would be to make a decision to kill one person for the sake of another. This is the sort of decision that only God can make.The argument about whether or not the fetus is a life in its own right before the moment of the turning is not one that can decide the question of whether or not abortion is justified. Even if the view that the fetus before this moment is not a human life and therefore not as important as its mother is accepted, there is still a potential life there, something which can, in time, become a human being. The argument about the turning is that this life is entirely dependent upon the survival and health of the mother. It is fundamentally wrong to put the life of the fetus above the things that have been there to allow it to survive just because it will not be dependent upon them after the t...
