Pro-life activists carry a strong argument, and continue to push their beliefs. They feel so strongly about these beliefs that violence has broken out in some known instances. Pro-choice activists, on the other hand, also carry very strong points. They believe that the child inside them is their property and its life doesn't be until birth.

The Church is against abortion seeing it as the killing of a human life. Pope John Paul "condemned abortion as a crime...urging Roman Catho

lics to fight what he called an abominable crime and the shame of humanity." (The Age 6-10-97) and on a trip to Brazil stated "May the abominable crime of abortion, shame of humanity, not condemn the unborn to the most unjust execution - that of the most innocent human beings." Mother Teresa another widely recognised religious figure was whole heartedly against Abortion seeing it as "murder" of the innocent. The Catholic Church believes that abortion should be undertaken only in extreme circumstances such as when the mother is in risk of dying.

Abortion will forever remain an issue with two sides the right to life or the right for freedom of choice.

Personally, abortion is a repulsive issue and not just because of what the church teaches. As Warwick Murphy's opinion letter shows it is extremely infuriating that women or mother's can "take the easy way out" by choosing abortion because they made the wrong decision or they do not want to take responsibility for their doings. It is unfair to punish a child for their mother's mistakes or the mother's lack of thought in whether or not it is the "convenient" time in her life to bring up the child - what about the

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