The Abortion Debate
In recent years there have been two emerging traditional Roman Catholic ways of dealing with an intrinsically evil act such as abortion. One way is to evaluate the act itself using a three-step process. The first is to state or ask the intention of the act that was committed. The second is to look at what was involved in the act itself. The final step is to search out the circumstances which may have determined the decision to commit the act. This idea of focusing on the act itself is formally known as the deontological method or the basic good theory. The second theory that has emerged is that of a proportionalist or teleological method. It describes moral decision making as “the process of assessing the proportion of value and disvalu
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Approximate Word count = 518
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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