Topic: Abortion

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 (§58), 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