The approach taken by English is a mostly rights oriented, allowing the woman to make the decision to have an abortion. During the article she also states that utilitarian theory does have some merit, but the traditional approach can be rigged to make consequences of actions limited.

English’s conclusions are that an agreed upon definition of the concept of a person will not end the abortion debate. English states, “our concept of a person is not sharp or decisive enough to bear the weight of the abortion controversy.” She arrives at this conclusion by reviewing the theories. Mary Anne Warren’s five-feature theory, Michael Tooley having a concept of self, Paul Ramsey gene structure and John No

Upon review of the arguments English’s article is the closest to my beliefs. It provides one with the privilege of self-preservation, referred to by English as Self Defense. Abortion is legal in the US, since the Roe vs. Wade case in 1973, which provides women with a choice of terminating their pregnancy for personal reasons, such as financial issues, not being ready to have a child, age or sexual crimes. At any time during the first trimester, many states have restrictions on second and third trimester abortions.

The argument, which provides the strongest opposing view, point it Don Marquis, “Why Abortion Is Immoral”. The conclusion, which he reaches, is that “Since a fetus possesses a property, the possession of which in adult human beings is sufficient to make killing an adult human being wrong, abortion is wrong.”

The defense of this statement is made through using the “a future like ours” theory. This states that the reason killing is wrong is the loss of the

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