is abortion moraly right

It has been said that abortion is allowable because a fetus, not being a person, has no rights. By all Thomistic accounts, this assumption is a gross fallacy. “An abortion is the expulsion of a nonliving and nonviable fetus from the womb. Since the fetus cannot live outside its mother until the completion of the twenty-eighth week of pregnancy, removal of a nonviable fetus from the womb is the equivalent of destroying

it (Higgins).” Although an abortion may be performed in order to save the life of a pregnant women, or in order to escape the moral obligations associated with a pregnancy, it is “a direct attack upon innocent human life and is always murder (Higgins).” Considering that each human being begins their life in the form of a fetus, it is hard to support the argument that a fetus is not a human, and thus even harder to dispute the fact that a fetus does have rights. Furthermore, “the morality of the problem has no relation to the dispute over the time when the rational soul is infused into the embryo. The likeliest opinion is that this occurs when, after fertilization, a distinctly new living thing is formed. Actually abortion is not employed until after the fetus is fairly well formed and is certainly informed with a rational soul; but even if it were invoked in the early stages of gestation, the act would still be destructive of a human person (Higgins).”

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