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A 10 page paper that discusses the issue of abortion and Christian responsibility and most specifically, the stance of the Catholic Church on abortion. The writer begins with the number of abortions reported in the year 2000. One of the major points of controversy in civil life regarding abortion is 'viability' – at what age can the fetus live outside the womb. Legally, this is the moment the infant achieves status as a human being but what does the church say about this issue. It may surprise some to know the Catholic/Christian Church addressed this topic in the first century and has addressed it numerous times since. These documents are cited. Within the discussion of abortion, the writer discusses what conscience is, the formation of conscience, the moral life, and what happens when there is a conflict between one's conscience and the authority of the Church. bibliography lists 10 sources.
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abortion as "a procedure, performed by a licensed physician or someone acting under the supervision of a licensed physician, that was intended to terminate a suspected or known intrauterine pregnancy
and to produce a nonviable fetus at any gestational age" (Robinson 2003). The total number of abortions reported for the year 2000 was 0.862 million (Robinson 2003). Of those, 19.2
percent were for women under the age of 20 and 32.2 for women between the ages of 20 and 24 (Robinson). Over 80 percent of these women were not married
(Robinson). The highest rate was for women in California, 39 per year per 1000 women ages 15 to 44; the lowest rate was in Wyoming with 2 per year per
1000 women in the same age group (Robinson). To bring more impact to these data, one organization reports the total number of abortions in this way: "There were over 3,600
abortions per day in 2000, 151 per hour, one every 24 seconds" (Abortion in the United States: Statistics and Trends n.d.). The number is declining, however (Robinson; National Right To
Live). There were 2.5 percent fewer abortions in 2000 than in 1999 (Robinson). It should be noted that the Alan Guttmacher institute (AGI) consistently collects higher figures because they survey
abortion providers directly (Abortion in the United States: Statistics and Trends). For instance, AGI reported 1,313,300 abortions in 2000 compared with CDCs total of 861,789 (Abortion in the United States:
Statistics and Trends). There are any number of different topics of debate regarding abortion, one of which is at what moment does the embryo become a person, a soul? (Coppens).
The Catholic Church is very clear on this point: "From the time that the ovum is fertilized, a life is begun which is neither that of the father nor the
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