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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]
Some denominations–mainly European-generated Protestant denominations–have amended their stance on abortion, with religious leaders in more liberal Christian denominations became supporters of abortion rights while Evangelical and other conservative Christians still staunchly oppose abortion, a view that is shared by the Catholic Church. [5]
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]
Sergio Flores/Getty Images News via Getty ImagesThe most restrictive abortion law in the country went into effect on Sept. 1, 2021, after the U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 to deny an emergency appeal.
A recent court case about religious liberty helps to show the moral case for a right to abortion. Abortion bans often have exceptions for rape, incest and lethal fetal defects.
In the year since the Supreme Court struck down the nationwide right to abortion, America’s religious leaders and denominations have responded in strikingly diverse ways — some celebrating the ...
Following Aristotle's view, it was commonly held by some "leading Catholic thinkers" in early Church history that a human being did not come into existence as such immediately on conception, but only some weeks later. Abortion was viewed as a sin, but not as murder, until the embryo was animated by a human soul. [29]
If a certain religion or sect maintains that abortion is murder because its sacred scripture or tenets tell them so, that mere belief simply cannot be enshrined into our nation’s legal system.