Person's Religious Identity Shape Their Thesis

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The Catholic Church in Rome came to represent the leadership from which Christian doctrine emerged, and it is that doctrine that forms the basis of the Christian identity. As the basis of Christian doctrine is that Christ, the Savior of mankind, was conceived of the Holy Virgin Mary, who delivered unto the world the Son of Christ. It is here that the religious identity that takes a side in abortion resides: that life begins at conception. For if that which is conceived of the womb can be aborted at will, then that is contrary to the notion of life that born with the conception of the Son of God in the womb. Thus, in the Holy Mother, the womb is sacred, as is that which is conceived therein (Jacoby, Kerry N., 1998, p. 27).

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It condenses the discussion to the gender and an act of sex (Kopaczynski, Germain, 1995, p. 1). The act of sex eliminates the notion of religious identity.

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Jacoby, K.N. (1998). Souls, Bodies, Spirits: The Drive to Abolish Abortion since 1973. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers. Retrieved August 17, 2008, from Questia database: http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=24373078

Kopaczynski, G. (1995). No Higher Court: Contemporary Feminism and the Right to Abortion. Scranton, PA: University of Scranton Press. Retrieved August 17, 2008, from Questia database: http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=3099425


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