Explain how a follower of Natural Law might respond to issues raised by Abortion

The key to answering such a question is to identify the key parts of Natural Law theory, a deontological, absolutist theory of ethics, and to also identify what 'issues' are 'raised by Abortion'. The latter clearly involves issues surrounding personhood i.e., when personhood begins and what constitutes personhood, the sanctity of life i.e., does life have a special quality attached to it and should be preserve that quality, and finally quality of life i.e., are there matters of physical and emotional wellbeing at stake?

Natural Law, as already mentioned, is deontological therefore meaning that it is duty based. As a result of this the focus is on the action and not on the consequence. The situation surrounding the abortion is to the most extent irrelevant, because Natural Law is also absolutist, therefore what is right transcends time, place, culture and situation. After establishing the basics of Natural Law we can now see what it specifically might have to say regarding the issue of Abortion. We can consider what distinguishes Natural Law theory from other theories and then apply it to the issues we have set aside earlier. Things to consider are: that it is adopted by the Catholic Church who maintain that life begins at conception, the primary and secondary precepts, the use of phronesis, we can use human nature to consider what is right and wrong and that as a result things must be used for the purpose for which they were created.