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	Religion and abortion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An example of indirect abortion is seen in cases of ectopic pregnancy where the fallopian tube would be removed with the unborn intact, saving the life of the woman, but resulting in the indirect death of the unborn.
		Despite this theoretical viewpoint, abortion is not uncommon among the Sikh community in India, and there is concern that the practice of aborting female embryos because of a cultural preference for sons is growing.
		Some organizations support abortion rights only in limited situations such as rape, incest, or cases in which continued pregnancy may jeopardize the life or health (physical or mental) of the woman.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Religion_and_abortion (4163 words)

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		Jewish tradition is sensitive to the sanctity of life, and does not permit abortion on demand.
		By the third century, abortion is commonly listed among the crimes of men, but some wonder whether Christians may have allowed exceptions to their teachings against it.
		The Bible contains no specific prohibition on abortion, although several passages are widely held to indicate that life begins at conception, in which case a ban on abortion follows logically.
	wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/r/re/religion_and_abortion.html (1045 words)

	fpa religion contraception and abortion factsheet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Religion is a powerful influence on sexual attitudes and behaviour in many individuals and it often forms a society’s orientation towards human sexuality.
		Abortion tends to be disapproved of as Hindus believe that both physical and spiritual life enter the human embryo at the moment of conception.
		Despite this, abortion was legalised in India in 1971 in cases of rape, incest and for the mental health of the woman if she would be adversely affected by the birth of an unwanted child.
	www.fpa.org.uk /about/info/religion.htm (1842 words)

	Abortion - Gurupedia
		Medically, the term also refers to the early termination of a pregnancy by natural causes ("spontaneous abortion" or miscarriage, which ends 1 in 5 of all pregnancies, usually within the first 13 weeks) or to the cessation of normal growth of a body part or organ.
		In the first fifteen weeks, suction-aspiration or vacuum abortion is one of the most common methods, replacing the more risky dilation and curettage (D and C).
		Very late abortions can be brought about by the controversial intact dilation and extraction (D and X) or a hysterotomy abortion, similar to a caesarian section, and requiring the surgical decompression of the fetus's head before evacuation.
	www.gurupedia.com /a/ab/abortion.htm (763 words)

	Abortion and Religion
		The movement to prohibit abortion brings together two distinct forces, those politicians who would wrap themselves in the blanket of religion to be elected and those religious individuals who would use the force of government — including the enactment of criminal laws — to accomplish what they cannot obtain through sermons from the pulpit.
		We must recognize that attempts to legislate against abortion are based on a desire to impose the dogma of some religions onto those religions that tolerate abortion.
		Prohibiting abortion is not doing the work of my God, who would rather see a women live than allow a pregnancy to kill her.
	www.rossde.com /editorials/edtl_abortion_religion.html (1267 words)

	Education For Choice : Religion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Abortion is now prohibited under all circumstances and can be punished by exclusion from the church (excommunication).
		Although Orthodox Judaism teaches that life only begins at the moment of birth, abortion is prohibited except where the mother's life is at risk or continuing with the pregnancy will seriously damage her health.
		In practice people of all faiths, in all countries, use abortion as a way to limit family size or space their children where contraception is unavailable or where it has failed to work effectively.
	www.efc.org.uk /Foryoungpeople/Factsaboutabortion/Religion (545 words)

	Religion and Abortion - Part 3: The Roman Catholic Church
		A reading of the history of the church's thinking on abortion reveals much variation in the opinions of Catholic theologians over time about the status of the fetus and the permissibility of abortion.
		Therapeutic abortions were allowed to save the life of the mother as most theologians held that "ensoulment" was delayed and took place forty days after conception for males and eighty days for females.
		The adoption of the doctrine of infallibility in the late 19th century reinforced the belief in the minds of Catholics that the church's stand on abortion was infallible.
	www.sonomacountyfreepress.com /body/religion_and_abortion_3.html (1099 words)

	Catholic Women and Abortion
		This is not to say that the Guttmacher researchers "cooked" the data, but it is to say that readers should be as suspect of their work as they would if the Pentagon had a research arm that produced studies indicating the need for an arms buildup.
		The majority of Jews profess no religion, and therefore it is entirely likely that when Jewish women were asked to choose which religion they belonged to, the majority checked off "None" as opposed to "Jewish," thereby underreporting their actual abortion rate.
		Finally, the data show that the abortion rate is not only declining, it is at the lowest rate since 1979 (the highest rates were born between 1983-1985).
	www.catholicleague.org /research/catholic_women_and_abortion.htm (623 words)

	Religion and Abortion
		The scripture's use of personal pronouns ("I" and "me") certainly suggests that it was David, and not a mass of tissue, whom God was intimately involved with.
		That is the true blasphemy as far as the Bible in concerned, the soul and the flesh are complementary aspects of a unified being, they are not separate.
		The unborn child is a body, and a soul, which has a personal relationship with God, as evidenced by scripture.
	www.abortioninfo.net /facts/religionessay1.shtml (1377 words)

	Abortion: Mixing Religion and Politics
		Politicians and political parties should not discuss abortion and there should be no laws restricting abortion, because abortion is a religious issue, and for a politician to get involved in it would be mixing religion and politics.
		Ministers and churches should not discuss abortion and there should not be official church doctrines on abortion, because abortion is a political issue, and for a religious leader to get involved in it would be mixing religion and politics.
		One common argument of pro-choicers is that it is illegitimate to make laws about abortion, because opposition to abortion is based on religious belief, and in a diverse democratic society it is not acceptable to make laws based on religious belief.
	www.pregnantpause.org /politics/mixing.htm (1133 words)

	Abortion - Planned Parenthood Golden Gate
		It takes about 15-20 minutes and is usually done in a clinic or a doctor’s office. Medication abortion is an option within the first 8 weeks after the last menstrual period and ends a pregnancy using particular drugs. It takes approximately 4-8 hours to pass the pregnancy.
		Although the abortion does not take place in the clinic, you must schedule a follow-up appointment to ensure that the procedure is completed.
		Additionally, you must be prepared to have a surgical abortion in the event that the medication abortion does not end the pregnancy.
	www.ppgg.org /site/c.esJMKZPKJtH/b.1164253/k.C726/Abortion.htm (465 words)

	Religion and Abortion
		Religion fuels much of the intensity of the abortion debate.
		Religion shouldn't be discounted in any political decision, because by affecting many individuals, religion affects society.
		Abortion of a formed fetus determined to be homicide -- 11th century Catholocism
	www.abortioninfo.net /facts/religion.shtml (600 words)

	_Free Inquiry_, ''Perspective: Anti-abortion and Religion'' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		And, although the church did condemn abortion from time to time, it usually recognized the "quickening" doctrine, proposed by Aristotle and accepted by Augustine and Thoman Aquinas, which stated that ensoulment took place at forty days if the fetus was male, at eighty days if female.
		Mohr writes that abortion was taken fro granted in America, as it had been or millenia everywhere (especially when it was between a woman and her midwife) until about 1850, when members of the newly organized American Medical Association became concerned over the number being performed dangerously by medical quacks.
		Whether or not abortion is permissible, it has rarely been a religious issue until the past decade.
	www.holysmoke.org /fem/fem0017.htm (720 words)

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		U.S. abortion rate continues to decline and is now at the lowest level since 1974, down to 21.3 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15-44 in 2000.
		A substantial proportion of the 11% decline in abortion rates between 1994 and 2000 was due to women´s use of emergency contraception’ (http://www.guttmacher.org/media/nr/nr_011503.html).
		That’s why I feel abortion must remain legal: a woman’s right to choose allows her the respect to make the most intense personal decision of her life by herself, with the advice of her doctor or family if she chooses to involve them.
	www.bayoubuzz.com /articles.aspx?aid=3836 (642 words)

	abortion and religion information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Bulgaria made abortion on request accessible to all women in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.39 Religion in Bulgaria...
		abortion and there should be no laws restricting abortion, because abortion is a religious issue, and for a politician...
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	www.property-gd.com /articles/102/abortion-and-religion.html (504 words)

	Religion and (Abortion) Politics in Great Britain: Tony Blair’s Faithworks Speech by Joseph M. Knippenberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Abortion is regulated by law, not a product of judicial interpretation, and abortion law is a matter of conscience, not of party.
		All three major parties are "big tents" on abortion and leave their members free to vote their consciences on abortion legislation.
		Affirm, as Antonin Scalia has argued, that the US Constitution is silent on abortion and that abortion law is a matter for state legislatures to decide.
	www.ashbrook.org /publicat/oped/knippenberg/05/blair.html (1970 words)

	Religion = Highter Abortion Rate?
		He found that the U.S., the most religious of the countries surveyed, had the highest rates of homicide, abortion, STD infection and teen pregnancy.
		Numerous surveys have demonstrated that religion is much more important to Americans than to others living in developed western countries.
		The Pew Research Centre in the U.S. showed in 2002 that nearly 60 per cent of Americans said religion was very important to them - compared to 30 per cent in Canada, 11 per cent in France and 21 per cent in Germany.
	www.religiousconsultation.org /News_Tracker/religion_equals_higher_abortion_rates.htm (676 words)

	Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . COVER STORY . Abortion Healing . May 12, 2006 \| PBS
		Many women who had abortions feel it was the correct and responsible decision.
		If the way they viewed the abortion at one time was a tremendous sense of relief, and then years later someone else gets to them and says, "Oh no! You've murdered your child.
		WILLIAMS: But for women who may now believe that their abortion was coerced or in retrospect wrong, they seek, in the rituals and role playing of Rachel's Vineyard, forgiveness.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/religionandethics/week937/cover.html (1290 words)

	abortion, religion and souls
		I read a mind-blowing statistic about the cause of a very large number of abortions recently, which makes me wonder whether the parents would consider a funeral appropriate in those cases.
		The results show that the ratio of girls to boys in the richest states of the north and west has fallen sharply over the past decade, a phenomenon that most experts attribute to the rising use of ultrasound tests to determine the sex of a fetus and the abortion of females.
		For example, the ratio of girls to boys 6 years old and under has declined to 793 girls per 1,000 boys from 875 in Punjab and to 878 from 928 in Gujarat.
	www.xent.com /pipermail/fork/2001-November/006884.html (214 words)

	Readings on Philosophy, Religion, and Reason: Abortion Reviews
		Abortion is one of the most divisive issues in modern US history, perhaps even more so than homosexuality.
		Many women alive today have grown up in a world where abortion has been a safe and legal part of their medical landscape.
		For an entire generation, legal abortion has been something they can simply assume would be there for them, should they ever need it.
	www.skepticism.info /archives/abortion_index.shtml (870 words)

	Category List --- Religion-Online.org
		Abortion is always tragic, but the tragedy of abortion is not always immoral.
		Some churchmen and politicians are so intransigent on the issue of abortion, over which men have no physical control, and so tolerant of killing in war, over which men have always had control.
		The pro-life movement has always known that in order to help the unborn, women must also be helped, but it has not yet found a way to make this moral insight the operative and unquestioned premise of the entire movement.
	www.religion-online.org /listbycategory.asp?Cat=73 (711 words)

	Donklephant » Abortion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		South Dakota is on the verge of all but banning abortion, a move that will almost certainly spawn a case that is appealed to the Supreme Court.
		It’s the middle of the night in New Hampshire, and a teenager, afraid to tell her parents she is pregnant, appears at an emergency room.
		The Pennsylvania legislature could have rationally believed that some married women are initially inclined to obtain an abortion without their husbands’ knowledge because of perceived problems—such as economic constraints, future plans, or the husbands’ previously expressed opposition—that may be obviated by discussion prior to the abortion.
	donklephant.com /category/abortion (1428 words)

	SSRN-Religion, Politics, and Abortion by Michael Perry
		The contemporary American debate about religion in politics is partly animated and shaped by two large controversies that are at once both moral and political in character: the controversies over same-sex unions and abortion.
		To an even greater extent than the controversy over same-sex unions, the abortion controversy looms large in the background of the debate about the proper role of religion in the politics of the United States.
		I defend the first proposition in two other essays in the series of which this essay is a part: A citizen's religious faith has a legitimate, important role to play in her politics.
	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=294506 (447 words)

	Abortion - headings
		"The National Abortion Federation (NAF) is the professional association of abortion providers in the United States and Canada.
		This is the text of a full length book by Pope John Paul II, which expresses the official Catholic viewpoint on abortion, euthanasia, and the death penalty.
		Abortion, infanticide and euthanasia are highly controversial topics, but we believe they should not be resolved by the shouting, newsbites and slogans that have dominated popular presentations.
	www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu /Internet/abortion.htm (1115 words)

	Abortion Myths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		For many women, abortion is inaccessible because it’s outrageously expensive ($500-$1000), and 86% of counties in the U.S. don’t have an abortion provider.
		And while most women would probably rather forego the logistical, financial and social hassle of trying to get an abortion, the fact of the matter is Abortion IS birth control, and it’s not wrong that a woman wants control over her own body.
		It’s for this reason that we also fight for women’s right to have things like universal childcare and healthcare, and for men to do their share of the child-rearing— things that will make it possible for women to have children if they want to.
	grove.ufl.edu /~cnow/abortionmyths.html (734 words)

	Abortion as religion
		A puff piece in the Los Angeles Times honoring an abortionist demonstrates the new attempt to sanctify the operation, clothing it with the aura of self-righteousness and sacrifice, turning abortion into a sacred act.
		We should not be surprised by this development in the abortion debate.
		So this turning abortion into a sacred act has been part of the agenda of pro-abortionists for some time now.
	cranach.worldmagblog.com /cranach/archives/2005/11/abortion_as_rel.html (779 words)

	Abortion and Religion
		However, since abortion was difficult to detect, and because it was virtually impossible to prove that a woman had knowingly intended to terminate her pregnancy, very few women were accused of abortion as a major crime.
		He was using "lessons and examples of medical and legal history," to show that abortion regulation was to avoid medical problems to the mother, when as a #atter of historical fact, "Th symptos for a pregnancy were very similar to illnesses like dropsy, growths and the assumed stagnation of the blood.
		The third reason to explain historically the enactment of criminal abortion laws in the 19th century and to justify their continued existence is the State's interest -- some phrase it in terms of duty -- in protecting prenatal life.
	www.n7nz.org /project1/stressd4.htm (10762 words)

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