Repeal Abortion Laws Now :: Argumentative Persuasive Topics

Repeal Abortion Laws Now   why do the miscarriage laws stay on the books? One reason is the manifest inability or unwillingness of those who advocate population limitation to check up on the connection. (This does not apply to Planned Parenthood-World Population, which in November, 1968, passed resolutions c everying 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 type Catholic Church were on record in favor of abortion-law neaten or repeal. The American Baptist Convention and the Universalist/Unitarian Church came expose for total repeal. And public opinion polls demonstrated that a bulk of people, including a majority of the Catholics asked about the issue, favored at least most liberalization of the laws. But the opposition of the Catholic Church is potent and well(p) organized. The Church holds that the fetus is ensouled at conception . In his encyclical Humanae Vitae in July of 1968, pontiff Paul said, We must(prenominal) once again declare that the direct intermission of the generative process already begun and above all, directly willed and procured abortion, even if for curative reasons, are to be absolutely excluded as licit means of set birth.   To this unequivocal statement--which is, of course, not the law in any(prenominal) American state, since all states permit abortion at least to save the life of the mother--the pontiff adds an assembling to Public Authorities. He learns, To Rulers, who are those principally trustworthy for the car park good, and who can do so much to safeguard moral customs, we say Do not allow the morality of your people to be corrupted do not permit that by legal means practices reverse to the natural and divine law be introduced into that fundamental cell, the Family....May all responsible public authorities--as some are already doing so laudably--generously rev ive their efforts. I submit that insofar as this is an appeal to Catholic officials in this country, it must clearly 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 tricky position those Catholics who occupy public positions in this or in any country where separation of church and state is constitutionally or otherwise basically guaranteed. They must choose, for example, when it comes to abortion for the therapeutic reason even of prudence the life of the woman between their obligations to their church and their obligations to their state.