abortion
Christian Attitudes to Abortion Abortion, the termination of a conceived foetus by medical methods is not natural, and would not be wanted or necessary in an ideal world. However, our world is not ideal and each year the amount of abortions rises. In 1996 there were 177,275 abortions in the UK, that’s more than 600 a day carried out at NHS and private abortion clinics. The cases vary in reason, but one thing that must be made very clear is that in the UK, a woman does not have a right to an abortion. However, the current regulations protect and doctor from prosecution that performs one:- if they and a colleague honestly believe an abortion should be carried out. The first abortion law was the Offences Against the Person Act (1861) which made it a crime to “assist in attempting an unlawful abortion by any means whatsoever.” At this time abortions were mainly carried out on the backstreets, illegally. For many women, who had no access to effective contraception at the time, this! was the only way to stop a pregnancy, which would usually be from a scandalous affair or relationship. Needless to say, these methods were very crude and must have caused intense pain for the mother. It was also very dangerous, because the clinical proced
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