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Switzerland
The majority of Switzerland’s people live in cities and towns. Bern is the country’s capital. Zurich is Switzerland’s largest city. Other large Swiss cities include Basel, Geneva, and Lausanne.

Language. The Swiss Constitution provides for three official languages

Switzerland
Switzerland is a small European country known for its beautiful, snow-capped mountains and freedom-loving people. The Alps and the Jura Mountains cover more than half of Switzerland. However, most of the Swiss people live on a plateau that extends across the middle of the country between t

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Throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance, abortion was legal until the moment of quickening. In 1588 Pope Sixtus V called abortion the same as murder and thus subject to the same penalties. Within three years Pope Gregory XVI eliminated any penalties until ensoulment- which was then determined to be about 40 days after conception (5). Pope Gregory XVI

shouldn?t have changed the law because if you have an abortion which was murder then you should get the same punishment. The law should have stayed the same through history.

In 1869 Pope Pius IX removed any distinction between formed and unformed fetuses and made the penalty for the sin of abortion

excommunication regardless of the stage of fetal development. At about the same time abortion was banned in most of Europe. The decision of Pius IX

was reaffirmed in 1917 with publication of the Code of Canon Law (5). The Code of Canon Law was just restating that the result of an abortion is

excommunication (Roleff, 22). Personally I feel excommunication is not a severe enough punishment. A few laws I thought were fair were against abortion and said it was wrong. One major abortion law was passed Britain in 1861. This law made abortion a felony and this was enforced for nearly 100 years (Flanders, 5). Also, Connecticut passed the first abortion statute in the United States in 1821. This statute made it a crime to give a woman a poison to cause her to

miscarry (5). In 1830, New York criminalized the performance of abortions after the fetus can be felt moving but exempted those necessary...