Warren beings her argument by acknowledging that abortion “…usually entails the death of a fetus. ( Social and Personal Ethics: The Moral Status Of Abortion, Marry Anne Warren, Page 109)” Shockingly enough, at least to many individuals, Warren still holds firm that safe abortion is both morally permissible and under no circumstance should be illegal. Warren recognizes that it is almost futile to argue with those who believe that abortion is equivalent to murder unless it is argued that fetuses to not have the same right to life as other human beings. She does this by
Moreover, he attempts to show validity that the aborting of a fetus can, with the exception of rare circumstances of rape or serious medical condition, be represented as an equivalent serious moral wrong. Marquis further notes that laws prohibiting abortion in the U.S. did not exist until the 19th century. In his continuation of outlining premises, he avers that Anti-abortionist have the outlook that fetuses are people and abortion equates to murder. And, helping to support his claim he explains the existence and division of two mutually exclusive and contradictory groups. This dichotomy of the one and the many presents itself in the premises of the two opponents as follows: Anti-abortionist has the outlook that fetuses are people, and abortion equates to murder.
Despite the fact that both she and the fetus has the equal right to life, opponents of abortion would still consider it wrong to preform an abortion with reasons ranging from killing an innocent person is always wrong and is murder to one must always prefer letting a person die to killing a person. J.J. Thomson would respond to say that these reasons are all false if we consider that the mother is only preforming an abortion in order to save her own life and not for personal interests. Hence abortion should be considered morally permissible in such situations when the life of the mother is threatened by the fetus. In order to determine whether abortion is permissible in cases where the mother’s life is not in immediate danger, we should analyse whether the fetus truly has the right to live. Take for example, rape.
R.S REVISION- ABORTION Roman Catholic Church "Life must be protected with the utmost care from the moment of conception; abortion and infanticide are the most abominable of crimes." Second Vatican Council, Encyclical Gaudium et Spes Abortion is always wrong. Life begins at conception (or at the very least we cannot be certain that it doesn't), therefore abortion is murder. The unborn child is a sacred human life; it deserves the same respect as any other human being. Even in the case of rape, the RC Church does not support abortion - the foetus would be paying for someone else’s crime.
She also claims that the antiabortionists are fighting against the rights of women and the ability of free choice. McElroy’s argument for abortion wasn’t convincing and most of the claims presented needed more support. I believe that abortion should be illegal unless in some special cases such as rape and situations where the mother’s health can be affect by the pregnancy. The main issue of abortion is the fetus’ life. It all comes down to when it become a human.
General Purpose: To persuade Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to think twice before making the decision to take the life of an unborn child. Central Idea: Although convenient, abortions are cruel and inhumane alternatives to pregnancy. Introduction Abortion is one of the most controversial and important topics of our generation. The number of people that choose to have an abortion is a growing problem but it could be improved through awareness. I know that no one wants to have an unplanned pregnancy but what if one day you found yourself in that very situation.
“The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me?” (Teresa) Being Pro-life or Pro-choice is an option everyone has, there are many factors that help once decide between the two and there are some who just can’t decide. Although, abortion is legal why should anyone be allowed to determine when to end another human beings life is unethical, a crime and overall just cruel. After on January 22, 1973 at the court of Roe vs Wade it was decided that the termination of pregnancy became a legal decision any woman could take. Although, there is not a single law stating that abortion is a crime, if a pregnant woman was to be killed the court of law would consider it a double homicide. How does one person determine if another dies?
Pro-life is the opposing argument to pro-choice, and that abortions should be made illegal like in Northern Ireland unless the mother’s life is at serious risk. Many Religions have the traditional view that abortion is a sin. It is argued that if a teenager becomes pregnant and has an abortion they may come to regret this in later life, because at the time they were only a minor. The argument for Pro-life is a choice by people who feel that it is wrong to take a man life, weather that human has been born or not is irrelevant. Abortion is seen as no different to murder.
Conservatives believe that a fetus’s right to life and personhood begins at conception, thus leading to the opinion that all abortions should be considered murder. The ideas behind this belief consist of the fact that a zygote, at the moment of conception, has forty-six chromosomes, the same amount as all human beings have, thus it is a human being and to abort it would be killing another human being. A second belief is that instead of beginning with the zygote, we begin with a newborn child. As most people will agree that a healthy newborn baby has a right to life and is a person who is following a continuous process of development, conservatives believe it would be arbitrary to draw, working backwards in chronology of this process, a line at any time short of the zygote and claim that there is no longer a person at that point. Thus, a zygote must be a person.
Q A) Examine the ethical issues involved in abortion [30 marks] Abortion is defined as the deliberate termination of pregnancy, usually before the foetus is 24 weeks old. Although abortion is legal in may countries, there are some opponents who argue that abortion is wrong. There are three main issues involved with abotrion. These are: · The value of potential and actual life · The life of the mother vs the life of the child · Ethical issue in legislation about abortion The key discussion point with the issue of the value of potential and actual life is whethere abortion is murder or not. This depants on personal view of personhood.