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Selected Bible verses and perspectives Passage Perspective allowing abortion Perspective against abortion Genesis 2:7 (Garden of Eden narrative, see also Soul in the Bible § Genesis 2:7) - "Then the L ORD [note 1] God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being".
Abortion is perceived as murder by many religious conservatives. [4] Anti-abortion advocates believe that legalized abortion is a threat to social, moral, and religious values. [4] Religious people who advocate abortion rights generally believe that life starts later in the pregnancy, for instance at quickening, after the first trimester. [5]
Christian views on poverty and wealth vary. At one end of the spectrum is a view which casts wealth and materialism as an evil to be avoided and even combated. At the other end is a view which casts prosperity and well-being as a blessing from God.
At different times, early Christians held different beliefs about abortion, [1] [2] [3] while yet considering it a grievous sin. [37] [38] [39] The earliest Christian texts on abortion condemn it with "no mention of any distinction in seriousness between the abortion of a formed foetus and that of an unformed embryo". [40]
Granting the religious exemption to Indiana’s abortion ban would have a more profound implication. If the legal, moral and personhood status of a fetus is deemed uncertain enough to warrant ...
Since the Catholic Church views abortion as gravely wrong, it considers it a duty to reduce its acceptance by the public and in civil legislation.While it considers that Catholics should not favour abortion in any field, it recognises that Catholics may accept compromises that, while permitting abortions, lessen their incidence by, for instance, restricting some forms or enacting remedies ...
While religious believers at the heart of the decades-old fight over abortion are shocked at the breach of high court protocol, they are still as deeply divided and their beliefs on the ...
British law allows local governments to enact absurdly censorious orders limiting "anti-social" behavior.