Abortion Vs Abortion

Abortion has been a heated debate in the United States for decades. Since before the ruling on Roe v. Wade, it is clear that this is an issue that is far from ever being decided upon. Between those who are pro-life and those who are pro-choice, scholars from both sides work on disproving the morality of the other side. With the evolution of abortion laws and regulation through the decades, it is difficult to imagine the United States without conflict pertaining to abortion. Despite pro-life and pro-choice agendas, the country is in ever-changing opinion when it comes to abortion.

Abortion has been around for quite some time. Laws have been set allowing it and banning it during different periods of time. The procedures that can be done are all very different. There is a medical abortion involving drugs and there are surgical abortion involving a more invasive procedure. There are also different points of view on it. There are those who fully support the termination of a pregnancy and those who are completely against it. There are many factors to consider and very different ideas out there.

To be pregnant under the age of 18 is a controversial issue. As minor, she may choose to give up the child. As a minor, she may choose to give the child up for adoption, keep the child, or undergo an abortion. Many are opposed to the latter option, which is the early termination of a pregnancy. The root of this issue began with the Supreme Court’s decision on the legality of an abortion in Roe v. Wade and has stemmed into a debate of pro-choice or pro-life. The decision led to the polarization of the public, since the conservatives were against abortion being a constitutionally protected right. Pregnant women should have control over their body, and yet through case law conservatives are able to pass restrictions on when the abortion procedure would be done (Henretta, J. A., Hinderaker, E., Edwards, R., & Self, R. O., 2014).

Kristen is also accurate in her claim that fertilization is only the beginning of biological life, not the start of a conscious human life. This argument is interesting because many do not consider “biological life” when arguing whether or not a fetus is a human. However, a fetus can be biologically alive, but not consciously. There are so many stages during pregnancy, that people believe signifies the start of human life. The first sign of brain activity is another point in fetal development which people believe signal the start of human life. However, this minimal brain activity does not suggest that a fetus is conscious and self-aware, but merely a stage of development for the

Did you know that there are at least four specific moments that can be thought of as the beginning of human life? There is the embryologic view, which is where some think life begins when the embryo undergoes gastrulation, and twinning is no longer possible; which occurs about 14 days into development. Then there is the neurological view, which depends on brainwave activity; life begins when a distinct EEG pattern can be detected, this happens at about 24 to 27 weeks. Another is the genetic view, which states that life begins with the formation of a novel genome. Finally, one can say that life begins at or near birth, measured by fetal viability outside the mother’s body. The whole issue with people being for or against the closure of Planned

In “A Defense of Abortion", Judith Jarvis Thomson argues that a life is a life regardless if it was still in the fetus. Possibly the best argument that was made by Thomson was that a fetus has already been a human person long before birth. In this Paper, I will argue that this argument fails because a life should be consider living when it is “conscious”.

Abortion is, easily, the most controversial topic in the United States today. Some think it should be illegal, some think it should be legal but with restrictions, and then there are those who think it should be legal and free to access when wanted or needed. It usually ends with the Baby VS. Mommy debate.

The subject in which we are about to discuss is such a deeply controversial issue because fundamental moral and profound ethical reasonings are at stake. This matter is highly charged with passion, emotion, and is extremely complex. Few questions have divided America as strongly or intensely as this one. Are you pro-life or pro-abortion? Abortion is the ending of pregnancy by removing a fetus or embryo before it can survive outside the uterus. Modern methods use medication or surgery for abortion. However, these are no small issues. Most women feel people who are pro-life are violating their rights. As a result what we have is a massive collision or conflict of perceived rights. For example, the right of women, the right of privacy, the right

It had originally started at 32 weeks in 1960, then 24-28 weeks or less in 1973, and 19-23 weeks in 1989. Cite book It was predicted that viability could even be as early as 12-15 weeks. Abortionists could have a challenging time arguing about life at conception if technology ever increases to support an unborn child from the embryonic stage. Cited book It is argued that it is not life until the child is no longer supported by some sort of support system. With that logic, anyone that is dependent on a pacemaker, kidney dialysis, or is an insulin dependent diabetic could be labeled as “non-viable.” Throughout medical research, there have been different criteria that proved the presence of life. Brain waves, heartbeat, implantation, birth, and social interaction have been used to prove life. The only problem is that some of those signs could not be seen, but life can still be there. By that logic, people that are comatose, the senile, and the retarded would be clearly excluded from the category of being human. All humans begin life as nonviable for at least the first five months of their very young life. It is biologically viable, but there has not been a newborn child that is autonomously viable for the simple fact that the child is extremely dependent upon the mother to provide basic needs that the child cannot provide for themselves: like eating, bathing, changing, and the protection from the mother because a newborn baby can not

“On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion”, an essay written by Mary Anne Warren, defend abortion in any stage of a woman’s pregnancy (pg 468). Warren argues that the potential to become a human being is not the same as being human and deserving the same right to life (pg. 468-472). This essay asserts that in order to be human, one must possess five particular traits (pg. 470). These trait are consciousness, reasoning, self-motivated activity, the ability to communicate, and awareness of oneself (pg. 470). Warren claims that since a fetus has not yet acquired all of the traits, then that fetus is not human and therefore does not have the right to life (pg. 470).

Physicians, biologists, and other scientists agree that conception marks the beginning of the life of a human being—a being that is alive and is a member of the human species. There is overwhelming agreement on this point in countless medical, biological, and scientific writings.

Even though religion has been used to make abortion an issue of morality, which fundamentally it is, we have to keep in mind how central the topic of abortion has been to the political atmosphere throughout the United States and more so, in Capitol Hill. The Republican’s counterpart, Democrats have accepted importance abortion has across party lines, as highlighted by Politico : “the politics of abortion are already vexing vulnerable senators from both parties on the 2018 ballot” (Schor 2017). More over, Democrats distinguish themselves from Republicans as they presume that women have the ability to legally chose what they do and do not do with their bodies since “choice is a fundamental, constitutional right,”(Democratic Party on

The greatest controversy with determining if abortion is permissible or not is one of defining if whether the fetus is a human being or not. In a genetic sense a human being is defined as the member of biological species, homo species which includes fetuses and humans without functioning brains. In the moral sense a human being is defined as a fully-fledged member of the moral community, consisting of all and only persons. Moral humanity overrides the genetic humanity in that there are five characteristics that entitle an entity to be considered a person: consciousness and in particular the capacity to feel pain; reasoning; self-motivated activity; capacity to communicate; and the presence of self-concept and self-awareness [The ethics of abortion, (2015)]. Warren (1973) argues that if any ‘being’ does not possess most of these characteristics it is then rendered not a human being in the moral sense, thus assuming that there is no stage during fetal development at which a fetus resembles a person enough to have a significant right to life [The ethics of abortion, (2015)]. A counter-argument to the above school of thought points out that if killing the fetus is permissible because they are not ‘full-fledged’ members of the moral community, by the same standards it would be permissible or justifiable to kill new-borns as they have not entailed these five characteristics of ‘personhood’ and depend fully on an adult individual to survive and cannot survive on its own.

Abortion is defined in several ways all of which stop a pregnancy. There are different ways of abortion, which are spontaneous abortion, surgical abortion, and medical abortion. Abortion has been arguable topic for decades. One can neither believe abortion to be good nor bad. The idea of individuality and human life is not quite the same. Idea of human life has come from conception; simultaneously on the other hand, fertilizer eggs used for in vitro fertilization are also human lives but eggs unable to implant are routinely thrown away. Would you like to call it a murder and if not, then how is abortion a murder? Arizona is known as a state that is very much against abortion. In 2012; Arizona was named Americans United for Life’s “Pro-life All-Star.” Since 1995, center for Arizona policy has supported 30 bills that have been signed into law that promote pro-life.

Abortion is a controversial topic that has been debated in society. In the entry of abortion in The Oxford Companion to the Bible it states, “abortion as such is not discussed in the Bible (Dolansky 51).” Since the Bible doesn’t clearly discuss the topic, abortion, it is currently debated whether it should be accepted or not. People make the argument that getting an abortion is ending a life so one is committing the first commandant by aborting a child. Friedman and Dolansky discuss where the Bible could be relating to abortion in some way.