abortion

Question 1

abortion fundamentalist christian David in Psalms

Answer 1

• believe sanctity of life,
• that life begins at conception because david says in Psalms ‘you knew me before i was born… all the days allotted to me were written in your book before any of them ever began’

Question 2

abortion fundamentalist christian parable of sheep and goat

Answer 2

-Jesus treated every human being as equally important in parable of sheep and goats show we should protect least of society ‘whatever you do for the least of my brothers and sisters you are doing for me

Question 3

abortion liberal Christians

Answer 3

argue sometimes abortion wrong but unfortunately necessary - eg if young girl raped Jesus told us not to judge ‘do not judge, or you too will be judged’ and he always showed compassion

Question 4

pro-choice argument

Answer 4

argue it’s best to consider quality of life for mother and child.

Question 5

pro-life argument

Answer 5

believe in sanctity of life, both mother and embryo deserve equal chance at life. argue only acceptable reason to abort is if mother’s life is at risk because she also sacred human and if she dies baby will probably not survive

Question 6

Buddhism dependent arising

Answer 6

-believe in dependent arising-everything inter-related. other human beings are all part of web of being that surrounds us all, if they harmed so are we all

Question 7

five moral precepts

Answer 7

-abstain from taking life

Question 8

kamma

Answer 8

harming an embryo seen as ‘unskillful action’ result in bad kamma which affect next life + make more difficult to achieve enlightenment

Question 9

karuna (compassion)

Answer 9

karuna goes hand in hand with wisdom so in certain circumstances abortion might be most compassionate and wise