Roman Catholic Church Teaching and Abortion:  A Historical View from the Early Church to Modern Day

Brady, Maren

Roman Catholic Church Teaching and Abortion: A Historical View from the Early Church to Modern Day

dc.contributor.advisor	Whitt, Jason
dc.contributor.author	Brady, Maren
dc.contributor.department	Communication Sciences and Disorders.	en_US
dc.contributor.other	Baylor University.	en_US
dc.contributor.schools	honors college	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2020-05-29T13:35:10Z
dc.date.available	2020-05-29T13:35:10Z
dc.date.copyright	2020
dc.date.issued	2020-05-29
dc.description.abstract	The Catholic Church is known today to be staunchly opposed to any practice that violates the dignity of human life, including abortion. While the Catechism refers to this teaching as constant and unchanging since the first century of the church, many have questioned whether the Church has always fully opposed abortion, especially in the early stages of pregnancy due to conversations surrounding theories of ensoulment and animation. In this thesis, I will argue that the Catholic Church has always embraced a respect for unborn human life from conception by opposing direct abortion. To do so, I trace the development of the Church’s current canon law and magisterial teaching pertaining to direct abortion from the early Church to the 21st century by examining the writings of prominent theologians, papal documents, and previous collections of canon law.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/2104/10945
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dc.rights.accessrights	Worldwide access	en_US
dc.subject	Abortion	en_US
dc.subject	Catholic Church	en_US
dc.title	Roman Catholic Church Teaching and Abortion: A Historical View from the Early Church to Modern Day	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US