Abortion By Ernest Hemingway Analysis

One of the most controversial topics over the years, and still today, is abortion. Is abortion murder or not? When does a fetus become a human? There are no answers to these questions. Everyone individual has their own beliefs on whether or not abortion is justifiable. Abortions have been performed throughout many of centuries. Recently, there has been a number of court cases that has changed the legality of abortions, especially in the United States, for example Roe v. Wade. Even religions have changed their views on abortions over the course of the years. In the abortions wars there are two parties, pro-life and pro-choice. Pro-life believes that abortion is murder and is completely immoral. Pro-choice,

Although Jig and Sheri were both dealing with the same issue of not wanting to have an abortion, they both interacted with their partners differently. While the American spoke with Jig over some alcohol, he downplayed the seriousness of the procedure. Jig was easily influenced by what the American was telling her and she even said, “Then I’ll do it. Because I don’t care about me” (Hemingway 637). While Jig did not want to have the procedure done, the way she interacted with her partner shows she cares more about his approval than she cares about herself. Also, it shows that when Jig interacts with her boyfriend, she is not willing to communicate her true feelings. Unlike Jig, Sheri is sure of herself and was not seeking her boyfriend’s approval. While Sheri did not speak in the short story, Lane had a vision of her saying, “This is her own decision and obliges him to nothing” (Wallace 258). Lane’s vision of their interaction shows that Sheri is not afraid to

As humans, we tend to rely on others to guide us in choosing “right” decisions. In “Hills Like White Elephants,” Ernest Hemingway tells a story of an American man with a girl, named Jig, having a conversation about whether or not Jig should undergo this “operation,” which we could assume is abortion. Jig looks to the man to tell her what she should do and what would happen afterwards, basically looking for a “right” decision. The girl is torn between listening to the man, who pushes her to have an abortion, or separating from the man, to instead, keep the baby. Hemingway uses setting and symbolism to interpret the girl’s struggle with abortion.

In On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion, Mary Anne Warren discusses a few arguments against abortion, namely bringing into play whether the fetus is actually a person, or “not a member of the moral community”. She

In her essay “Abortion, Intimacy, and the Duty to Gestate,” Margaret Olivia Little examines whether it should be permissible for the state to force the intimacy of gestation on a woman against her consent. Little concludes that “mandating gestation against a woman’s consent is itself a harm - a liberty harm” (p. 303). She reaches this conclusion after examining the deficiencies in the current methods used to examine and evaluate the issues of abortion. Their focus on the definition of a “person” and the point in time when the fetus becomes a distinct person entitled to the benefits and protections of the law fails to capture “the subtleties and ambivalences that suffuse the issue” (p. 295). Public debate on the right to life and the right

There are many people with permanent disability’s that contribute to our society in very useful ways. In most cases, these people are viewed as being courageous. This kind of a reaction is typical but not always honest. There are a lot of people are uncomfortable around those that are considered “less than normal”. In her article The Abortion Debate No One Wants to Have, Patricia Bauer writes about Down’s syndrome and abortion. Bauer is a former reporter and bureau chief for the Washington Post.

The novel, Unwind by Neal Shusterman, is a dystopian novel set in a world where . Sixteen year-old Connor Lassiter gets his life completely turned around when he discovers that his parents have signed a contract that states that he can be ‘unwound’. Being unwound in this futuristic world, is a form of abortion for teenagers aged thirteen to eighteen, where their body parts are harvested until someone needs them, yet still stay alive. Connor runs away from home and manages to disappear for one day until he is tracked down by the police and his father on a busy highway. Full of adrenaline and fear, Connor grabs the nearest person to him to use as a hostage and as a shield against the onslaught of sedatives the police are firing, Levi

The short story “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway, is about a man trying to convince his girlfriend to have an abortion. The couple sits in a train station waiting for their trip to Barcelona, and are staring outside at the scenery—the line of hills “like white elephants”, as the girl, Jig, remarks. They sit and drink and they try to keep conversation light and to enjoy themselves. As the story progresses, however, cause for their underlying tenseness boils to the surface.

Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy. Since 1973 abortion has been an important controversial issue within the United States. 1973 marks the year that the famous Rowe versus Wade case was decided before the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ruled that abortion be legal and available to all women. Legal abortions can be performed up until the sixteenth week of pregnancy, after sixteen weeks most doctors or clinics will not perform the procedure unless keeping the baby presents a medical risk to the mother. Even in these situations abortions are very risky after sixteen weeks.

The controversy within the biomedical ethics topic, abortion, has two main proponents. The first is the view against abortion, also known as pro-life. The other view is rooted upon the belief of being pro-choice, or basically for abortions. These two different views are like two mathematical principles, in that although these two views have many differences, they also have larger similarities in the background. For example, when pro-choice activists support abortions due to unwanted pregnancies, the activists are not rallying behind the idea of sexual incompetency (pregnancies due to lack of birth control). Rather, they are supporting the idea that women have the right to choose what to do with their own bodies. In order to understand

Jig and the American man have two different personalities. They each have different opinions and cannot compromise when it comes to making decisions. There are many factors to this such as their feelings, sex, and age. To have the child or to not have the child is the question. Either way depending on the upshot one person will be contented while the other person is unhappy. The man would rather let Jig go through this operation because he doesn’t want the responsibility of raising a child. This child is more of a curse than a gift. He wouldn’t be able to do want he enjoys the most which is traveling, drinking, and having sex. He persuades Jig to have an abortion. “It’s really an awfully simple operation, Jig,` the man said. “It’s not really an operation at all” (Hemingway 225). To ease her mind he says “You don’t have to be afraid. I’ve known lots of people that have done it” (Hemingway 225). It’s a simple fact that he doesn’t love Jig. If the man loved Jig he wouldn’t abort his unborn child, but to convince her to have

Hemingway leaves it up to the reader to decode it with critical thinking. The “secretive” operation the couple is discussing is an abortion. The American Man states, “It’s really an awfully simple operation… it’s not really an operation at all.” (Page 3, Hemingway) Showing just how really this man is stunningly inconsiderate of Jig’s feelings, and also taking advantage of the fact Jig overrides her feelings and natural maternal instincts for this man to please

Although it seems simple, the story carries a couple of parallel explanations about the situation. Hemingway has never mentioned the word in his story, but the main topic of conversation between the couple is abortion. First of all, the story shows the balance of power of the man and the woman in the relationship. After finding that Jig is pregnant, the man is trying to talk her into having an “awfully simple operation”. (Hemingway) When it comes to power in the relationship, at first the man is trying to be dominant. He does not show any interest in the woman’s health, and he is insensitive to Jig’s needs. Hemingway in the story represents the American as a “man who wants his woman to serve solely as the source of his sexual pleasure, who denies her the motherhood that she desires.” (Holder). However, soon after, he receives a rejection from Jig.

As the story opens, you meet a couple (age unknown) sitting at a train station somewhere in northern Spain awaiting a train that is heading to Madrid. From the outside looking in, the couple just looks like your ordinary couple waiting for a train, but there is an underlying problem that no one else knows about. At line 42 (Hemingway, p.116) the reader get their first glance at what the potential problem is, when the man says, “It’s really an awfully simple operation” (Hemingway p.116). This leads the reader to believe that this is about abortion, but the story does not tell you that. My argument is, what about the feelings of the girl? Let’s not focus so much on the operation and let us focus in on the feelings of the girl. The girl (Jig)

Today, abortion is a topic that people are very sensitive on. People either are pro-life, meaning they are against most if not all forms of abortion. The only exception some say is in the cases of rape and incest. The other stance people have on this controversial topic is pro-choice, meaning it is not the government’s responsibility to tell the women if she can or cannot have an abortion, it is up to that women. In Jewish scripter, there are three translations that are covered. In the Torah, there is not a specific text on the issue of abortion, but there is one part that is the most similar. The Torah, Septuagint, and Vulgate all have a version of their depiction on what the original text means.