Laws restricting abortion do not in any way contest the rights of women; rather they emphasize the right to life of the conceived infant, a right which people are trying to circumvent today. What these laws affirm is that no one may dispose of the life of an innocent. The laws simply put into practice a general principle of every democratic society: the equality of all human beings in the right to life. Hence, the penal character of these laws is but the consequence of an anterior, inalienable right of the unborn infant. It is the violation of this right that calls for and justifies a penal sanction.
 

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THE FIGURE OF WOMAN: http://www.simbahayan.org/teachmag07-MD.html
WE BELONG TO GOD: http://www.simbahayan.org/sin950918-webelongtogod.html
PSYCHOLOGY OF SPOUSAL RELATIONSHIP: http://www.simbahayan.org/B1-NFP-Potlawska.html
ON THE BEIJING CONFERENCE: http://members.theglobe.com/panindigan/beijingpfaindx.html
MOTIVES FOR BIRTH CONTROL: http://www.simbahayan.org/B5-popmotives.html
LIFE BEFORE BIRTH: http://www.simbahayan.org/LBB1-nidation.html
HUMAN DIGNITY: http://www.simbahayan.org/B1-humandignity.html
ABORTION & MENTAL HEALTH: http://www.ohiolife.org/qa/qa17.htm
FETAL PAIN: http://www.ohiolife.org/qa/qa10.htm

WOMEN: TEACHERS OF PEACE
http://listserv.american.edu/catholic/church/papal/jp.ii/women-peace.html
MOTHER TERESA'S MESSAGE TO THE BEIJING CONFERENCE
http://www.simbahayan.org/B5-mtertobeijingwcw.html
HOLY SEE POSITION ON THE BEIJING PLATFORM FOR ACTION
http://www.simbahayan.org/B5-vatvsbeijingpfa.html

LINKS TO POST-ABORTION SYNDROME (PAS) HEALING
PROJECT RACHEL: http://www.marquette.edu/rachel/projectrachels.html
OHIO RIGHT TO LIFE: http://www.ohiolife.org/aborted/aborted.htm
DIOCESE OF PITTSBURGH: http://www.diopitt.org/rachel.htm
KABABAIHAN NG MAYNILA: Tels. 526-8818; 536-3777; 536-3778