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Abortion

Abortion is the most difficult and controversial moral issue. Both sides (pro-life and pro-choice) have important moral insights. The insights however may outweigh one another depending on personal outlooks. The moral status of abortion may be defined as the act which a woman performs in voluntarily terminating, or allowing another person to terminate, her pregnancy. It also can be defined as the legal status which is appropriate for this act. Different states have passed different laws stating their position on the issue, but the debate boils down to one contentious question, which is, is Abortion murder? (Hinman 1)

Much of the debate in regard to abortion has centered on the first premise, that is whether the fetus is a person or not. If the fetus is a person, then it has the rights that belong to persons, including the right to life. (Ryan 1) If the fetus is human then it has the same human rights as the mother, when society legalizes abortion, it is sanctioning murder. (Szumski 13)

The fetus feels pain, when an abortion was taped it showed the outline for the child in the womb thrashing to resist the suction of the devise. The child shows sensitivity to the suction devise which helps to prove that the fetus is a


“There is no abortion that is not the unjust taking of another’s life.” (Burtchaell 13) The fetus is a human being and it is an innocent person. It is morally wrong to end the life of an innocent person. Therefore, it is morally wrong to end the life of a fetus.

If abortions were outlawed or limited the women in which it would affect would be the unfortunate ones. The less than average paying women would have to live in woe and live with the consequences that they brought upon themselves. “An unwanted child may be disruptive and destructive to the life of any woman, but the impact is felt most by those too poor to ameliorate those effects. If funds for an abortion are unavailable, a poor woman may feel that she is forced to obtain an illegal abortion that poses serious threat to her health and ever her life.” (Weddington 214)

At some points during the severe repression the changing structure of medicine brought about crucial changes in the history of abortion; at others, changes in women’s lives or the political and economic context came to the fore. (Reagan 14) A new movement to decriminalize abortions began in the mid 1950’s and arose out of the difficult experience resulting from the repression of abortion in the 1940s and 1950s. The suppression of abortion in the decades immediately preceding Roe v. Wade was unique in the history of abortion. That repressive system played a crucial role in producing a movement to legalize abortion. The social movement to legalize abortion resulted in a long outstanding acceptance of abortion. (Reagan 46)

Most people are well aware that over a million babies a year are killed in the United States abortion clinics. Fifty-one percent believe abortion destroys a human life and is manslaughter. Thirty-five percent disagreed and said it does not destroy a human life and it is not manslaughter. Eight percent agreed with neither and the remaining six percent said they weren

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