Suffer the Little Children: Elective Abortion as a Sign of Diminished Societal Compassion
Keywords:
abortion, welfare of a childAbstract
An article on abortion shows the very wide scale of this phenomenon. Abortions are shown in a historical perspective and through the prism of jurisprudence. The author presents its categorization – describing therapeutic and elective abortions. In this context he refers to the welfare of children.
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