The ethical view of abortion Does a mother have the right to take the life of her unborn child? Some may say that it is God’s will for that fetus to be born, and that the child is supposed to be born. This essay does not argue religious views, but ethical views. I will be using different views from an ethical standpoint to try to understand if abortion is morally good or bad. From a non-biblical standpoint, it is based on whether a woman finds it ethically right to terminate a pregnancy and what effect it would ultimately have on her happiness.
The Dilemma An ethical dilemma is a situation in which no solution is entirely satisfactory to either party (Foundations of nursing care, 2004). The historical 1973 Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade ruled in favor of the plaintiff, considering abortion an essential right granted to women under the Constitution of the United States (McBride, 2006). Jane Roe was a woman that was pregnant who wanted to obtain an abortion. She was prosecuted on behalf of women in a similar situation that wanted to avoid the implementation of Texas laws banning all abortions except those deemed necessary to save the life of the mother. The court decided in her favor that a woman’s right to abortion fell within the right to privacy, and was protected by the fourteenth amendment (McBride, 2006).
To say that someone is "pro-life" is to say that the person believes that the government has a right to preserve all human life, regardless of intent or quality-of-life. The "pro-choice" view is that a baby does not have human rights within the mother's womb. Pro-life believes- that even incapable growing babies and undeveloped human life is sacred and must be protected by the government. Abortion they therefore believe must not be legal, nor should it be widely done on an illegal basis. Pro-choice believes- that abortion is the belief that women have the right to choose to abort a baby from their body.
Should women have legal access to abortion? Even forty years after the United States Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of legal abortion on January 22, 1973 in the case of Roe v. Wade, the American public still remains split into two opposing teams. The pro-choice team, of which I personally consider myself a member, supports a woman’s right to choose on whether or not to abort her pregnancy. The pro-life team supports the notion that some, if not all, forms of abortion, under particular circumstances, should be outlawed. Many of the arguments made by the pro-life team take a moral, ethical, or religious standpoint in their persuasion of others.
Abortion is seen as no different to murder. In the case or Rape or incest, pro-life campaigners argue that the child is the one being punished when it has not committed the crime and that the child is completely innocent and it’s the criminal that instead should be punished. Pro –life campaigners also argue that adoption is an alternative to abortion, and that many people will use abortion as a method of contraception. They argue that there are thousands of people waiting to adopt children, so if a mother decides she doesn’t want her child for any reason she can offer this child through adoption to a suitable
The movement of anti-abortion was created and was also expanding. Creating two sides: pro-life which are against abortion, stating that abortion is murder. They believe that the fetus is a person, and has rights like all humans, and shouldn’t be killed. And the other side is pro-choice, entailing that those against abortion are against choice. They don’t see the fetus as an individual, they think that it’s mother’s decision to stay pregnant or not.
First Trimester Abortions should not be viewed negatively because a woman's body is her own, circumstances are always different, and a woman has individual rights. Abortion is the termination of pregnancy at any stage that does not result in birth. Abortion is typically defined as the termination of pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus or embryo before fetal viability. An abortion can occur spontaneously, in which case it is usually called a miscarriage, or it can be purposely induced. The term abortion most commonly refers to the induced abortion of a human rather than non-human pregnancy.
The definition of Abortion. D. Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy, either by choice, or for medical reasons. E. There are two different kinds of legal abortions that exist. 3. Therapeutic abortion, which the baby is aborted for the safety of the mother.
That is a relatively straight-forward viewpoint, compared to pro-choice, which I hold to encompass people who hold that abortion should be legal for at least some alloted time of a pregnancy. So the term "pro-choicer" is an ambiguous one when referenced to generally. Personally, I believe that abortion should be legal for the first and second trimesters, but not the third, so I will defend that viewpoint from here on out. Which means when coming to the case of your daughter, I would not like to have permit abortion, as at that point your daughter would be extensively neurologically developed. Most neurologists hold one of the most defining points of the beginning of life to be between 24 and 27 weeks in a pregnancy, when the child starts emitting a recognizable EEG pattern.
Abstract The objective of this essay is to prove that abortion is only ethical, and should only be legal when it is strictly conducted before the first ten weeks from the moment of conception. The key points supporting the purpose of this paper are: after defining when the potential of life starts (1) which is after the start of a heartbeat and (2) brain activity, (3) and focuses on what is best for society along with the value of life. The Ethical Sides of Abortion The law regarding abortion as it stands now, allows a woman to abort a fetus within the first twenty weeks after conception. There are serious debates regarding the ethics of this law, ranging from the immorality of ending human life, to the importance of human rights and federal control. It is a topic that can be vastly argued, but when considering what is best for society as a whole, it is possible to narrow down the possible outcomes.