Abortion, Euthanasia, and the Death Penalty, are three topics in the United States that are always in controversy. What are the Church's views on these three topics? Why do these topics play an important role on our lives as Christians and human beings? Why is something as harsh and unmerciful as killing a defenseless baby legal in the United States? I will try to answer all these questions and more in this report.
             Abortion is probably the most discussed out of all three of the topics for obvious reasons. First of all what is abortion? The dictionary describes it as an Induced termination of pregnancy and expulsion of an embryo or fetus that is incapable of survival and that's exactly what it is. The killing of an embryo or fetus for a person's own personal reason, but what reason can you possibly think of for killing a baby. One of the reasons that's often brought up is, "What if the mother was raped?" Another one commonly used is, "What if the mother's life was in danger if she bore the child?" The last reason I'm going to mention is, "What if you knew that the baby would have any abnormalities?" These are all reasons used but did you know that the overwhelming majority of all abortions, (95%), are done as a means of birth control. Only 1% are performed because of rape or incest; 1% because the baby has abnormalities; and 3% due to the mother's health problems. If this is true then these reasons that I mentioned are irrelevant since so little abortions are caused because of them. So then why is it that abortion is legal in the United States at any time during the entire nine months of pregnancy, for any reason whatsoever? One reason for this is even if abortion were illegal it wouldn't stop woman from having illegal abortions. A woman could pay some basement doctor to perform an abortion with unclean tools and unsanitary conditions. This would just make things worse, not ...