Religious Breakdown of Abortion

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The problems with abortion throughout the world have a large part to do with morality. Catholics and Christians which costitute the majority of the world's religous members are adimately opposed to abortion with a few exceptions of denominations allowing in in extreme cases. The main moral issue in abortion is whether it constitutes murder or not. Some say that a child is not fully human until it emerges from the woman's body, others believe that "ensoulment" takes place at the moment of conception and thus any concious elimination or prevention of a pregnancy constitutes killing that soul. There are many areas of middle ground on this issue, generally however the agreement is that if an abortion is to take place it should be within the first 3 to four months of pregnancy as this is before the fetus is recognizably human.