Abortion: human life is involved Divine law and natural reason exclude any right to directly kill an innocent man. However, if the reasons given to justify an abortion were always manifestly evil and worthless, the problem would not be so dramatic. The seriousness of the problem derives from the fact that in certain cases, perhaps in a considerable number of cases, by denying abortion we put at risk important values ​​to which it is normal to attribute great value, and which sometimes may even seem to be a priority. Pro-lifers do not deny these very great difficulties. It can be a serious health issue, sometimes life or death, for the mother; it could be the burden of having an additional child, especially if there are good reasons to fear that the child is abnormal or retarded; it could be the importance attributed in different classes of society to considerations of honor or dishonor, loss of social position and so on. Pro-lifers argue that none of these reasons can ever objectively confer the right to dispose of another's life, even when that life is just beginning. As regards the child's future unhappiness, no one, not even the father or mother, can take his place - even if he is still in the embryonic stage - to choose life or death in the child's name. The child himself, once grown, will never have the right to choose suicide; nor can his parents choose death for the child until he is old enough to decide for himself. Life is too fundamental a value to be weighed against even very serious disadvantages. When does human life begin? According to doctors, biologists and scientists who testified before the United States Congress:Conception (fertilizatio...... half of the document ......he Amedos. Medical A's',, 1W12/84, p. 20. Hooker and Davenport. The Prenatal Origin of Behavior. Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 1952. Noonan, "The Experience of Pain, New Perspectives on Human Abortion." Thomas Publishers, 1980. Rockwell, PE, MD Director of Anesthesiology, Leonard Hospital, Troy, NY, United States Supreme Court, Markle vs. 72-56, 72-730, 1972. P.11The Silent Scream, OH: American Portrait Films, 1984. Tanner, J. M. and G. R. Taylor, Time-Life Books Growth, New York: Life Science Life, 1965. p.64. United States Congress. Subcommittee on the Separation of Powers of the Senate Judiciary Committee S-158, 97th Congress, 1st session 1981. p.7