RELIGIÃO E BIOÉTICA: DIVERGÊNCIAS ACERCA DO ABORTO VOLUNTÁRIO

Abstract

This study approaches about theme Religion and bioethics – divergences about voluntary abortion: a theoretical study. The Study investigates the differences between religion and Bioethics in the case of voluntary abortion. The theoretical development discusses , from different conceptions, the points and counterpoints related to the practice of voluntary abortion, presenting the etymology of the term, the concept, history, exhortative techniques, Brazilian juridical position which allows abortion in specific cases of sexual violence, incest and severe fetal anomaly, indicates data which shows the number of voluntary abortions and estimates, saved the difficulty of presenting official statistical numbers due to the conditions where most abortions takes place, i.e. clandestine manner, due to the fact that some women are under age, but, however, emphasizes the rates of maternal mortality in Brazil and in the world. The approach examines how religion understands the subject of voluntary abortion, a rigorously condemned practice, regardless of the cause of pregnancy. According to the Religion, specially the christians, from conception the embryo is considered a human being and the right to life must be respected. In the other hand, in its precepts, Bioethics does not stimulate abortion and neither condemns, it just lets the action as a free act of the person, since it understands abortion as the disintegration or removal of a human fetus until then unwanted by man or woman, understands this fetus as something devoid of feelings and rights. And that the fetus may be at that moment a risk to women's health. As occur in the case of diseases or deformities of the fetus. As objective, this dissertation has verified the differences between religion and bioethics regard voluntary abortion in Brazilian society. As methodology, was considered a bibliographical research with theoretical analysis based on books, articles, theses, dissertations, materials already published that allowed discuss and develop their own ideas, making this proposal fully and easily comprehensible by the reader. Then, the conclusion points that there will always be differences between Religion and Bioethics regarding discussions on the matter abortion, this due to the fact that different views, understandings and positions regarding intrauterine life, and also about the woman have the right to free abortion decision. These divergences enable new and future research. The issue related to abortion, bioethics and religion is an ample field of analysis. Therefore, there is no forecast of a conclusion about the crime, right or woman's decision about abortion.