Topic: Abortion
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Bioethics in Brief: Abortion
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April 16, 2022
What is abortion? Abortion may be defined as the deliberate killing, however performed, of the early human being (the foetus or the embryo). Such a definition is given in the encyclical Evangelium vitae (ยง58), and also sometimes by defenders of abortion, including doctors who perform abortions. Some will indeed quite bluntly say that the aim of abortion is to
Evangelium Vitae: On the Value and Inviolability of Human Life
Magisterial Documents
March 25, 1995
Description This Encyclical Letter of Pope John Paul II is the fruit of the cooperation of the Episcopate of every country of the world, and was intended as a precise and vigorous reaffirmation of the value of human life and its inviolability in the face of new threats to human life. It is structured in