Abortion question

[1ke]

I have a question about abortion.

What if a pregnancy endangers both the life of the woman and the fetus?

Then the doctor has two patients.

In that situation, would it be sinful for the woman to have an abortion?

Yes.

The fetus wouldn’t survive either way, but at least if she has an abortion, she can still live.

Is it ok for me to throw you overboard in a lifeboat so that I can live? We may never do evil even in the pursuit of a good.

We all die sometime. What I may not do is kill you, what the mother may not do is kill her baby.

 

[Michael_Mayo]

Abortion divides the center like no other issue. A plurality (36%) in the center think abortion should be legal for any reason, but not after the first trimester; another 15% would extend the window to the end of the second trimester, and 12% more support abortions at any time for any reason. But what makes the center the center is this: an equal and opposite 36% believe abortion should be banned or restricted to cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother.

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