Abortion: The silent scream of a modern holocaust

The issue of abortion has always been a controversial one for citizens of the United States. Abortion is the practice of terminating a pregnancy after the embryo has been planted in the uterus (Abortion). An individual’s stance on this controversial issue categorizes them into one of two very different groups. An individual who feels that a woman should not have an abortion- due to moral or religious views- is said to be “pro-life”. Coincidently, those who feel that a woman should have the right to choose abortion are said to be “pro-choice”. “Pro-life” supporters point to the practice of abortion as an immoral one. Supporters state abortion is immoral because it takes away the rights of the unborn fetus, since activists consider human

Debate and policy about when life begins has circulated the Unites States since at least the 1700s, and still the question remains the same; when does life begin. Anti-abortionists assert that science proves life begins at conception. Similarly, pro-choice advocates believe there is not enough evidence to say exactly when life begins. There is tension between the two groups, which leads to poor communication. Both sides refuse to give up any ground because the stakes are high, but it’s important to find a solution to an escalating problem. This literature review considers whether abortion should be outlawed by responding to the following questions:

While parts of both may be true, both cannot stand side by side as completely true when discussing abortion. As they stand today, fetus rights and female rights are incompatible in arena of abortion. Even the “other side” agrees that the two cannot stand shoulder to shoulder. In a chapter entitled “Abortion Does Not Violate Human Rights”, Christian Beenfeldt quotes Brian McKinely when claiming that female rights have a higher precedence than fetus rights: “It’s actually quite simple. You cannot have two entities with equal rights occupying one body. One will automatically have veto power over the other.” So one question remains, which more important, fetus rights or female rights? The winner of this question can be decided by one simple factor: is the fetus to be considered a true, living human being at the point of conception, or does true human life not begin until after birth? A clarification should be made here, however. In this paper it will be assumed that everyone involved in this debate considers a newborn child to be a human being. That is, at the moment of birth, a child either becomes a human being or continues to be a human being; regardless of the fetus’s life state before birth, it will be assumed that all agree that birth “confirms”, so to speak, the life and human existence of the newborn.

To them the debate over abortion is irrelevant, abortion is about liberty and privacy; every woman has the right to make decisions over her own body without the worry of the government stepping in. Restricting abortion demeans the woman and makes her ill-equipped to make decisions on her future, destiny and reproductive life. destiny and reproductive life.

However, the column’s main idea was not my reason for selecting the article. I chose the article for its extensive, albeit slightly out of date, data and its knowledge presented that is written by educated, albeit biased, authors. Bonnie Jones and Tracy Weitz both have degrees that make them highly educated on the subject matter, however, a quick search of their names finds them to be highly partisan to the pro-choice movement. Although this makes them no less educated on the topic of abortion, it allows the reader to see clear partiality in the article. For the reader like myself who would like to question other channels of thinking, this article presents a clear-cut view of the concepts provided by the believers in the pro-choice movement along with detailed explanations of the subject matter.

Abortion is a legal medical method to stop the premature delivery that is adopted in most countries of the world. It was legalized many years ago but nowadays we live in the civilized society where the human life is the most precious treasure and the question about the appropriateness of abortions is of current importance. Nowadays there are two opposing camps who present their arguments. People who support abortion insist that prohibition of it will deprive people of their rights to have free choice. On the contrary, people who stand for banning abortion claim that abortion deprive a human being from the right to live. Every person must decide for himself what is more important: deprivation of choice or deprivation of life. Another point

When faced with the choice of life or death, most people would choose to live. In fact, most would not want someone else making that decision for them. They would claim that as a living and independent entity it is solely their choice as to whether they continue to live or not. While this concept may seem fairly straightforward, there seems to be some great debate when it is applied to abortion. For many, they will maintain that the fetus has the right to life no matter the situation. There are some who will argue that abortion is morally permissible in specific circumstances and there are even those that will claim that abortion is always permissible. Why is there such a great divide? A major factor that plays a part in this is whether abortion involves more than one life. Because determining the beginning point of life is such a complex and emotional debate, there will be the same allowance in this paper as there was in Judith Jarvis Thomson’s “A Defense of Abortion”. As she eloquently put it “I propose then, that we grant that the fetus is a person from the moment of conception” (p. 721). This will allow for a look into the moral debate of abortion from a more grounded stage. As discussed early in Thomson’s paper, most of the debate on abortion rests on whether the fetus is alive or not. Whereas the focus should be on the many other aspects of pregnancies that may lead to a mother wanting an abortion.

Life is a crossword puzzle. There are hints as to what one should put in the blanks, but at the end of the day it is the individual’s choice. Every person is a part of a society and a culture, and both play a part in influencing the life of the individual. They surround a person from the moment they come into the world, slowly shaping an outline of a life for them. Society and culture create an outline of a life for a person, but the person chooses how to fill in the blanks and whether or not they want to follow the flow of their surroundings.

Abortion is always argued with different cases and play a main role in medical ethics (blackwell.,p291).It is evidently reasonable for some to argue that in moral situation, abortion is a murder and it should be illegal, while others may claim that abortion is woman’s right when concerning on autonomy ( The abortion debate in Australia). Opponents of making abortion legal claim that abortion is a kind of murder on extend of moral situation. It is always regarded as a sin to kill a person who is no aggressor in most moral communities (new ethics 1). Fetus is a biologically human as it is not just a part of the mothers, such as a lung or a kidney. On the contrary, it is obvious that fetus is human due to he or she has genetic code of human and human parents as well (abortion myth p5). Moreover, it has potentiality to be a person with primary moral worth (text book p210-211). As Gillion (new ethics) pointed out, every person has his right to life, especially he is not an aggressor. This point is also been pointed by (Rebecca and john,Blackwell p204), “embryos has a right to life” .The fetus is innocent and

Life can contain countless activities and events, making a person very busy. Various people may sight life as an immense picture instead converging in the small details. Life comprises innumerable details that makes up the bigger picture. Human is mammals and within the cells, the human cavillation existed. The animal cell contains part that function together. Each part has a main purpose to create life.

I had always liked history. Now, thanks to Elizabeth MacKintosh and The Daughter of Time, I love history. This book piqued my curiosity and through research, opened the way to discover something that ought to have been obvious, but somehow never was: the people who lived before us lived. They were human beings with thoughts and fears and opinions and troubles. They loved and lied; they died and were (or were not) mourned and forgotten. But first they

Since man first had conscious thought, he has sought the answers to life affirming questions. How was life created? Who created this world? What lies after death? What is the meaning of life? Time has created many answers to these questions. Many of these answers are lost in time, along with the peoples who believed them. As archaeologists search the past for a better history of the planet, old questions are answered and new questions asked. There are also ideas that have only been transformed through history, reshaped by society.

Over 30 million babies are aborted in the world each year. Close to 720 thousand of those are in the United States alone (“Number of”). A popular mindset among our society is that women have the right to choose whether or not to abort. At the same time, many others believe that abortion should not be a choice and the baby should be carried, no matter what the situation may be. A lot of people will argue that if the situation is something like rape or incest, the mother should be allowed to abort the baby. On the contrary, the opposing belief is that the baby should be allowed life no matter what. Both sides of this argument have strong beliefs. Regardless of one’s opinion, statistics are statistics and both sides have begun trying to raise awareness. Many do so by creating public service announcements (PSA) and openly expressing their views on the subject. Often these are expressed by rhetorical images that trigger responses in the viewer, hoping to persuade them, but not actually advertising. This visual analysis focuses on abortion rights by effectively establishing ethos, pathos, and logos through the mother’s expression, the baby hands, and the colors used.

“Our history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race and our ancestors virtually live in us” - James Nasmyth (Engineer, Inventor)

Life is a complex case of cellular automaton starting as a zygote- a unified product of the sperm and the ovum ending up with some trillion cells which are biologically active. Life has to be lived forwards and can only be understood looking back wards - what are called as experiences. What one