The Pro-life advocates who are against late-term abortion argued that life begins at conception. At six weeks the fetus heart begins to beat and all the major organs have developed. In that case, any action deliberately taking to abort the fetus is ethically wrong and is considered as murder. An unwanted child is a pitiful thing, the thought of terminating something that if allowed to run its natural course, would result in the birth of a human being that will bring joy to most families. The Pro-abortionist focused only on a women’s right to choose and all the social problems inherent in an unwanted child, forgetting that the unborn child is a precious thing that has the right to life and deserves the full protection under the moral and ethics law.
The unborn child deserves the rights that are given to all living humans. The problem with today’s laws on abortion is that they make it too easy for a woman to get an abortion. The law is crazy to me because if you look at some murder cases, the unborn child is considered a person. If someone murders a pregnant woman, they will most likely be charged with two murders as we have seen in the Manson family murders. It shouldn’t matter how far along the pregnancy is for someone to tell if the baby is a “human”.
The unborn fetus has the right to live. There is an option involving unwanted pregnancies that could save unborn fetuses from being killed. This option would be giving the newborn up for adoption to another person or persons who aren’t allowed to have children because of some complication. This doesn’t hurt anyone because the woman who doesn’t want to keep the baby gives it to another couple or person who wants a child. Having an abortion is killing an innocent person for insignificant reasons.
In order for abortion to be wrong, the fetus must be believed to have full personhood and status as an individual being and that a fetus, though a morally significant being, it’s status is relational distinction rather than an absolute one: Without an existence outside the woman, a fetus cannot be a full being and therefore can be aborted without moral guilt. (Sherwin, 415) Marquis strengthens the traditional view that it is wrong to kill a child or infant and takes the next step to include the fetus in this category, supporting it with a sound philosophical foundation. Within this moral distinction, the actual location of the fetus—whether inside a woman’s body or some other imagined system that would make it viable—is immaterial to his argument. Marquis believes that the fetus’ right to life is more important than a woman’s right to her own body (as important as that right is). And he defends the fetus as an entity worth protecting because of the value of its
Pro-Choice or Pro-Life Abortion is a very controversial subject that many avoid because it has so many opinions when it is the topic of conversation. According to the Encyclopedia Americana, abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by loss or destruction of a fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus before birth. Even though many people believe that the destruction of a human being is considered murder, all women should have the right to choose to plan their own fertility. Abortion has been legal in the United States since 1973 and there are valid reasons to terminate a pregnancy such as a result of being raped or molested and for the health of the mother. In 1969, a woman named Norma L. McCorvey became pregnant.
The side affects, whether it be emotional or physical, are too much for someone to bare. While some women do over come the emotional idea of killing a fetus, it will liger for a lifetime. Not knowing what the child looked like, or how they would have impacted a life is devastating to most. No one will know how great of a person that child would grow up to be. There are lots of opinions about abortion, and most are not 100 percent for or against the idea.
The second question is whether or not embryo is a human being. Many people are strong opponents of abortion, who believe that abortion is an intentional violent act of killing of the weakest and the most defenseless among us. There is undeniably some truth in that, and I totally respect this point of view. But, tragically, the lives of women are completely ignored by the pro-life activists. I agree with them that it is not natural for a mother to get rid of the baby.
Here we are in this so-called world of freedom but when we exercise that freedom, we become ridiculed for making a choice. I would rather end a pregnancy instead of bringing a child into a world that they are forced to struggle and go without ; to make a child suffer is a far worse act then dissolving the birth of an unborn/ undeveloped fetus. In Roe v. Wade, a landmark Supreme Court decision in 1973, stated that a woman and her doctor may freely decide to abort a pregnancy during the first trimester, state governments can restrict abortion access after the first trimester with laws intended to protect the woman's health, and abortion after fetal viability must be available if the woman's health or life are at risk. Abortion was allowed in the United States of America
Many people believe it is cruel, merciless, and inhumane, but every woman should have the choice and right to have an abortion if she pleases. There are many circumstances that can arise and put women in predicaments where turning to abortion seems to be the only way out. The United States Supreme Court, in the well-known
Rape has affected many cultures and women’s life that we cannot imagine. In E.J. Graff’s article, he puts makes a lot of points that we should think about and change about our world. What exactly is rape? For men, it is simply a means to enjoy women’s bodies.