1. ABORTION and HUMAN LIFE

2. THE BEGINNING OF HUMAN LIFE

4. HOW AND WHEN DOES LIFE BEGINS?

5. CONCEPTION
Male cell (Spermatozoon) fertilizes the female cell (Ovum).
It becomes Zygote.
Embryo
Organic system of human are develop.
Fetus

6. “As a gift from God, every human life is sacred from
conception to natural death. The life and dignity of
every person must be respected and protected at
every stage and in every condition. The right to life
is the first and most fundamental principle of human
rights that leads Catholics to actively work for a
world of greater respect for human life and greater
commitment to justice and peace.”
-U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops

7. WHAT IS ABORTION?

8. ABORTION
Abortion refers to be “spontaneous or
induced expulsion of an embryo or
fetus from the womb of a pregnant
woman”.

9. 2 TYPES OF ABORTION
SPONTANEOUS ABORTION
Its causes are natural.
Normally called a miscarriage.
It occurs during the early part of the pregnancy.
INDUCED ABORTION
Intentional expulsion of the embryo or fetus from the
womb.

10. PROCEDURES IN INDUCED ABORTION
Manual Vacuum Aspiration (MVA)
– manual utilization of a syringe
or an electric pump in suctioning the
embryo out of the womb.
– employed up until 12 weeks of
pregnancy.

11. PROCEDURES IN INDUCED ABORTION
Dilation and Curettage(DC)
– Dilation of cervix and utilization
of a suction curettage in removing the
embryo.

12. PROCEDURES IN INDUCED ABORTION
Intrauterine Cranial Decompression
– Partial birth abortion
– Decompression of skull of the
fetus before evacuated in the womb.

13. PROCEDURES IN INDUCED ABORTION
Hysterotomy
– Similar to Caesarian section.
– Abdominal incision to evacuate the fetus.

14. POSITION OF THE CHURCH

15. The church regards that abortion is a
mortal sin and morally wrong .

16. Human life begins from the very moment
of conception.
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17. Life is begun , that life is sacred.
-Life is simply a victim of a kind of
violence .

18. “Human life must be respected and
protected absolutely from the moment of
conception.”
-Life inside the womb has a moral value.

19. The position of the church regarding the
issue of abortion , a moral stand that has
influenced the 1987 Philippine
constitution because of the country’s
deep Catholic tradition , tell us that the
unborn possesses the same dignity as
any mature adult.
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20. To say that the unborn has the same
moral status with that of an adult means
that killing the unborn is not different from
killing a mature person.
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21. For Pope John Paul II and the catholic
church , Abortion is a direct killing or
murder.
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