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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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The court accepted that a woman’s mental and physical state should be considered when deciding to abort. born) children substantial risk of the child being born seriously handicapped in an emergency – to save the mothers life in an emergency – to prevent grave permanent injury to the physical or mental health of the mother Those are the current regulations concerning abortion in this country. This can be answered from two viewpoints: scientific and religious. However there is much contention about the moral and ethical aspects of the termination. The child can grip objects in its hand by the 9th week and can squint, swallow and frown by the 10th week. However a US Catholic Conference ventured the considered view that: Operations, treatments and medications, which do not directly intend termination of pregnancy but which have as their purpose the cure of a proportionately serious pathological condition of the mother, are permitted when they cannot be safely postponed until the foetus is viable, even though they may or will result in the death of the foetus. However, abortion must be an option if, as the present regulations state - injury to the physical or mental health of the mother is greater than if the pregnancy was terminated. " It is obvious from this passage that men whose fighting had caused a woman to miscarry were not regarded as murderers because they had not killed the woman. Exodus 21:22-25 says that if a pregnant woman has a miscarriage as a result of injuries she receives during a fight between two men, the penalty for!

the loss of the foetus is a fine; if the woman is killed, the penalty is "life for life. By the 21st day this heart has started to beat. Scientifically, the development of a foetus in the mothers womb is a continual !

process. This is derived from Greek philosophy rather than the Bible, which seems to be a major flaw in the Catholic Church’s argument. ures were not advanced, and if some of the foetus was left in the womb then the woman would suffer from extreme poisoning which could be fatal. This is in spite of the fact that techniques for inducing abortion had been developed and were widely used by the time of the New Testament.

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