If a woman chooses not to seek medical attention for her unborn child, is that not the same as a mother not seeking medical attention for her baby’s aliment? In fact I believe it is and we as a society consider that negligence. So we must decide that a fetus is not a part of the mother’s body but a person, and that her right to freedom of choice must be weighed against the fetus’s right to be born in a healthy state. Against: Are we as a society ready to demand more of an expectant mother than anyone else? If we are sincerely committed to equality then the answer must be no.
Since God gave us all a right to have and make moral choices concerning how we live, eat, sleep and reproduce why their so much controversy is over abortion? Simple, have the right to choose to give life. To provide life is not like taking out the garbage because your mother simply asked you to. Giving life is not like a chore you can do or not if you feel. This is a human that you are responsible for, a person that will rely on you to be able to provide, teach, and nurture them for the rest of their lives.
The child has no say in what is happening, and the worst part of the procedure is it has been proven that the fetus can feel everything that is happening to it during an abortion. Some people might say that abortion should be legal and the mother’s choice; but to kill an innocent child, is morally and ethically
Thesis: Abortions are wrong in all aspects and should be illegal in the United States. Restatement and Division: There are three primary reasons why abortions should be illegal: it is murder, they are a living being from conception, and it raises health issues for women. Body Abortion is murder in all ways. A pregnant woman is hit and killed in a vehicle accident by a man. The man is charged with two accounts of manslaughter.
This analogy however, is only applicable in the case of a pregnancy due to rape and is otherwise a disanalogy. Secondly, I will present Don Marquis’ “future likes ours” argument. Marquis argues that abortion deprives a foetus of future experiences is akin to a pre-mature human being’s death. For Marquis, abortion is just as wrong as murdering a human being. Marquis states that “The future of a standard foetus includes a set of experiences, projects, activities, and such which are identical with the futures of adult human beings and are identical with the futures of young children.” Marquis further adds that “it is wrong to kill human beings after the time of birth is a reason that also applies to foetuses, it follows that abortion is prima facie morally wrong.” Marquis remarks that killing deprives humans and foetuses the value of their future.
If you dig deep enough into the case you can see that if she had the abortion it would at least be indifferent. It would be indifferent because the good would go towards the psychological well-being of the woman, but the bad could be the aborting of the fetus. Most people, especially those who are pro-life, would see it as a selfish act and be completely bad because she would be killing the fetus. I see this case passing the first step in double effect because I see the psychological effects of the situation. I can also see that when she was raped, it was not a morally good act so the decision to pass the first step would be a little more complicated than what it seems.
Pregnant women, who prefer abortion, on her opinion, make a choice of the same kind. Williams, however, claims that life starts at conception, and such terms as "the first trimester" or "second trimester" cannot help to define life. On the other hand, she claims that abortion should be applied, if it is necessary as abortion sometimes can save lives. Although the author admits that such a life might be worth any sacrifice, the right to decide whether such sacrifice should be done belongs exclusively to the mother. The presented article demonstrates rather effective use of ethos, logos and pathos.
Sean Stanton Mr. Hopkins Communication Skills 16 December 2008 “Pro-choice” A woman who is pregnant with a child should have the right to decide whether or not she can let the embryo or fetus she is carrying continue to be present inside her body. Because a woman is entitled to certain reproductive rights, especially the choice of whether or not to carry a pregnancy to birth, outlawing abortion would be wrong. Outlawing abortion is also wrong because the pro-life movement can negatively affect the life of a woman to help the condition of an embryo or fetus. To add to that, an embryo or fetus is not a person it simply has the potential of becoming one. Finally, the main argument I am trying to present is that I do not think we should
Melissa Capristo Mr. Baumgartner English 10 Honors 2 December 2012 Pro-Choice How would you feel if someone controlled what you did to your own body? I feel that by not making abortion legal you are controlling someone’s rights to their own body. Many women that want to have an abortion have emotional and personal reasons behind it. Some women choose to have their babies even though they didn’t want to but I believe that those kids have a high chance of growing up feeling unloved by their mother. I believe that every single person that is born into this world should have the rights to their own body.
Babies are innocent and should not be murdered. Mother Teresa once quoted “I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is 'Abortion', because it is a war against the child...