Repeal Abortion Laws Now :: Argumentative Persuasive Topics

Repeal Abortion Laws Now   Why do the abortion laws stay on the books? One reason is the app arnt softness or unwillingness of those who advocate population limitation to see the connection. (This does not apply to Planned Parenthood-World Population, which in November, 1968, passed resolutions c wholeing for repeal of the abortion laws in support of its declared policy of voluntary parenthood.)   By 1968, almost all the major religious groups in the United States except the Roman Catholic church service were on record in favor of abortion-law reform or repeal. The Ameri stub Baptist Convention and the Universalist/Unitarian Church came out for constitutional repeal. And normal opinion polls demonstrated that a majority of people, including a majority of the Catholics asked about the issue, favored at least some relaxation behavior of the laws. But the op set up of the Catholic Church is potent and well organized. The Church holds that the fetus is ensouled at concepti on. In his encyclical Humanae Vitae in July of 1968, Pope capital of Minnesota said, We must once again declare that the direct interruption of the fat process already begun and above all, directly willed and procured abortion, even if for therapeutic reasons, are to be absolutely excluded as licit means of regulating birth.   To this controlling statement--which is, of course, not the law in any American state, since all states licence abortion at least to save the behavior of the mother--the Pope adds an spell to exoteric Authorities. He says, To Rulers, who are those principally responsible for the common good, and who can do so much to safeguard moral customs, we say Do not allow the morality of your people to be degraded do not permit that by legal means practices contrary to the innate and divine law be introduced into that fundamental cell, the Family....May all responsible public authorities--as some are already doing so laudably--generously revive their efforts. I leave that insofar as this is an appeal to Catholic officials in this realm, it must distinctly be disregarded, because it is inconsistent with the laws of the land.   By issuing such an Appeal to Public Authorities, the Pope has placed in a very difficult position those Catholics who occupy public positions in this or in any country where separation of church and state is constitutionally or otherwise essentially guaranteed. They must choose, for example, when it comes to abortion for the therapeutic reason even of saving the life of the woman between their obligations to their church and their obligations to their state.