Abortion

Question 1

Christians

Answer 1

Believe that all human life is created in the image of God.

Question 2

Peter Singer

Answer 2

Believes a foetus should fulfil the criteria of personhood - self consciousness, the ability to show pain and self - awareness.

Question 3

Catholic Church

Answer 3

Doesn’t believe in contraception

Question 4

Roman Catholics

Answer 4

Argue that sexual acts should allow the opportunity of procreation to occur. Human beings shouldn’t interfere with nature.

Question 5

Roman Catholic Church

Answer 5

Believe life begin at conception

Question 6

Judith Jarvis Thompson

Answer 6

Accepts that the foetus is a person, but it is also part of the mothers body.

Question 7

Mary Ann Warren

Answer 7

Says that a foetus is not a person if they do not fulfil the criteria of personhood.

Question 8

Thomas Aquinas

Answer 8

Argued that boys receive their soul at 40 days and girls at 90 days.

Question 9

Church of England

Answer 9

Permit abortion on the grounds of severe abnormality, due to pressure on parents.

Question 10

Declared on Procured Abortion, Pope Paul VI, 1974

Answer 10

From the time that the ovum is fertilised, a life is begun which is neither that of the father nor of the mother; it is rather the life of a new human being with its own growth, it is a grave sin to dare to risk murder.’