Abortion Vs Religion

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The Church explains that all life, even the lives of unborn babies, is sacred and should be respected and loved. In scripture, it even says that God created mankind in his image. So if we would not go against God, then why would we have the right to kill each other? The church also says that life should be protected in any stage or condition it is in. When we help the sick and elderly with everyday tasks, we are demonstrating that teaching.

Abortion is the killing of an embryo or a fetus while inside a mother’s womb to end a pregnancy. It is seen to the church as a sin because it not only does abortion kill the baby, goes against the sixth commandment of not killing. But the U.S. government keeps abortion legal and that is where the March

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