violation to the rights of that woman. If
one believes it is a person, then you are obligated to protect it, even in taking away the rights of the woman carrying
When abortion was legalized, the Catholic Church felt obliged to expressly denounce the occurrence. After
a certain point in its development, the early church banned the process of aborting a fetus after a certain stage. In
many cases throughout history, this was thought to be conception. At other times, (based on the Aristotelian
concept of when the soul enters the body) it was forty to eighty days after conception.
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