Sentences with phrase «taking of human life»

Murder is the unjust taking of a human life.

Where medical ethics was once life - affirming, today's treatments and medical procedures increasingly involve the legal taking of human life.

Abortion is the willful taking of a human life.

The ruthless taking of human life is one of the perennial facts of history, but the twentieth century has experienced perhaps its worst example, the concentration camps.22 Irving Stone says:

Their conversations don» t even bring into the discussion the atrocious taking of these human lives.

'' wonder what would happen if there was this much moral and global outrage over the needless taking of human life.»

So these words go to me, and I can no longer not speak my private conviction that abortion is the taking of human life, and that what we are colluding in is a form of evil, a lie begetting other lies.

Francis argues that, today, we understand that any taking of human life is contrary to the dignity of life, and therefore we can now say that it is contrary to the Gospel.

«Its provisions seek to affirm as a matter of statute that no - one should be under any duty to participate in activities that they believe involve the taking of human life, either in the withdrawal of life - sustaining treatment or in any activity authorised by the 1967 or 1990 Acts.»

Widespread ownership of guns with no purpose other than the taking of a human life reflects a culture which glorifies instruments of violence.

The good news is that abortion is not the taking of human life.

Wesley writes that conscience clauses should include this principle: «No medical professional should be forced to take, or be complicit in the taking of human life, whether of an embryo, fetus, or born member of the species.»

Peter Singer, for example, speaks plainly of abortion as the taking of human life and warns those who try to rest the «pro-choice» case on that denial that they are placing their (and his) cause in jeopardy.

I live with the knowledge that I share responsibility for the taking of a human life in the line of duty and that a good friend on the force was shot and killed after we'd swapped shifts.