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Roman Catholic Stand on Abortion Throughout history till the present day abortion has developed into a worldwide issue. Today’s society has been placed into specific categories: “pro-choice” or “pro-life.” It has been known for various pro-choice individual’s to take vigorous stands against those whom participate in the actual procedure of abortion, seeing abortion an act of murder. And there are those who take the pro-choice stand on abortion, basically more timid compared to the pro-lifer’s. Many individuals who have strong Catholic surroundings find abortion confusing when faced with the choice. Within the Roman Catholic denomination abortion is disapproved among women in the Catholic faith. But in the United States, “64% of Catholics disapprove of the statement that abortion is morally wrong in every case”(1). Catholicism has taken many stands against abortion and formed numerous questions in order to form some sort of defense. This issue of abortion gives raise to such questions as: When does life begin? To what right does the women have to an abortion? Who decides whether abortion is morally wrong? I will explain the historical and systematic viewpoints of the Roman Catholic Church on their o