Abortion is an issue which more than a simple question of women controlling their own lives and bodies. Since Roman times, abortion and the destruction of unwanted children was permissible, however as our civilisations has aged, it seems that such acts were no longer acceptable by rational human beings. In 1948, Australia along with most other nations in the world signed a declaration of the United Nations promising every human being the right of life. At the same time, the World Medical Association meeting in Geneva stated that the utmost respect for human life was to be from the moment of conception.Medical research proves that the foetus is a living organism from the moment of conception. It is no doubt that the life of a baby begins at the moment of conception in the mother s uterus when a human sperm fertilizes a human ovum. …
