Natural Law
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When natural law principles are applied to abortion the result is usually conservative.

Once it is decided, on whatever grounds, that the embryo or fetus is (or probably is) a person, then the prohibition against homicide and the principle of the double effect place very narrow limits on the allowable practice of abortion.

The official Roman Catholic position is based on a combination of scripture, Church tradition, and the natural moral law that the Church believes can be discovered by human reason. From the perspective of Catholic natural law, since the embryo or fetus is (or probably is) a person (or ensouled), since he or she is innocent, and since in most cases the death of the child is directly brought about, abortion is gravely wrong.

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