Argumentative Essay On Abortion

Life is a precious thing, whether inside or outside of the body. It is not something to be toyed with or taken granted of. A baby, no matter what form they're in, is precious and important. And no matter what mistakes were made by the parents, that baby should have the right to live. It's not a choice; it's a

In order to survive, the fetus needs continued use of the mother’s body but this infringes on the mother’s right to life, because other people do not have a right to use another’s body, and therefore abortion should be permissible according to Thomson.

In §2, I will introduce Judith Jarvis Thomson's argument that abortion is all right even when the fetus is considered a person. In §3, I will object to her argument about the matter. In §4, I will give an explanation of a response Thomson could have concerning my objection to her argument. In §5, I will explain how my objection succeeds by having support from another stance.

The mother has the right of protection over the fetus as suggested by the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade because the fetus is not a rational person that can be protected by the constitution. Women are human beings who are guaranteed the rights the rights to choice and privacy by the Fourteenth Amendment. Abortion also has utilitarian benefits because it reduces the births of poor and socially disordered children who may cause crime in future. It also allows the women to participate normally in socioeconomic activities and contribute to the proper functioning of society. Without abortion, women might have children without being ready to face the duties and responsibilities of raising them, which leads to low quality of life. Women have the right to choose the right time to have children. Therefore, abortion should be legalized in all

It is a woman’s right to make decisions about her body. If she is the one that undergoes the stress that comes with childbirth, then it should be her right to ,and her right alone to decide whether or not she wants to go through it or not. Not doing so would violate her right to freedom of choice, as well as lead to unsafe abortions that could harm the mother (Nair, 2010). Another question is how could you kill a fetus or embryo when it is the same as a human being? Which begs the question, if the fetus is alive, then so are the eggs and sperm? How do you make the distinction?

A lot of pro-abortion people say rape is a situation where the mother should be allowed to have an abortion, because that’s hard and she shouldn’t have to think of that everytime she looks at her baby. Well rape is no reason to have an abortion. Keissling said “I owe my life to pro-life activists” (Geyer, Allison, infohio). She owes her life because if abortion was legal when her mother was pregnant she would’ve probably be dead right now because her mother wouldn’t have wanted to deal with her, but since she didn’t now 26 years later they are together and happy with a good relationship (Geyer, Allison, infohio).  Another way pro-abortion people justify having an abortion is by saying they’re a women and you can’t tell them what to do with their body and their life. Some women say that since the baby is inside of their body it’s apparently a part of their body now and they get to decide the outcome of the baby's life. But this is not true, the baby is a separate from the mother. The baby has its own heartbeat, limbs, and lungs. That is separate from the mother. Every human has ONE heartbeat, ONE set of lungs, ONE brain. The baby is Its own human, they have there own life. Rape and other situations is no reason to give up your

Forcing a human to do something with their body that they do not want to do is against basic human rights. There are a plethora of reasons to have an abortion: rape, incest, and birth defects to name a few. There are some woman in the world that are able to raise a child after being raped, but not all woman have that strength. Not all woman can bare to be reminded of what happened to them every day for the rest of their lives. Pro-Life also argues the case of adoption. If a mother does not want her child, why doesn’t she simply give it up for adoption?

In discussions of abortion, a controversial issue has been whether abortion is morally permissible. According to anti-abortionists, abortion is the killing of an innocent fetus and is therefore not morally permissible. According to Judith Jarvis Thomson, however, abortion is not morally wrong in most cases and she attacks the anti-abortionist argument. Therefore, they disagree on whether abortion is morally permissible or not. In this paper, I will outline the anti-abortionists argument in numbered premise-conclusion form and show which premise Thomson attacks. After that, I will summarize her thought experiments and defend Thomson’s argument against two possible objections from the anti-abortionists.

Women use the common argument, “My body, my choice.” Now that is completely correct. However the fetus is not her body, it is in her body. It is a separate body from her own, that’s why the mother doesn’t die when you kill the fetus. The fetus has its own heart and brain. Keith Moore writes, “By the time a baby is eighteen to twenty-five days old...the heart is already beating. At forty-five days after conception, you can pick up electroencephalographic waves from the baby’s developing brain. At eight weeks, there is a brain.” The fetus is its own separate body. No one ever asks, “How’s your body?” when referring to the fetus. People ask, “How’s the baby?” Therefore it is not the woman’s body and the argument, “My body, my choice.” is

There are rights that come along with an abortion, women can not abort a pregnancy past a certain point. Although, the rights of the embryo are there, they are way past the point that life is already present. Conception is the moment that sperm and an egg transform into something new. “Even if the fetus is not a human being, it is clearly regarded by most people and most societies as something special that should not be casually discarded.” (BBC Ethics Guide. When). This is one of the main reasons why conception should be the point when life begins and the embryo has rights. Ethically it is better to air on the side of caution, in protecting the life that is about to be aborted, than having abortion become a murder. Women have had the choice when their babies have gained that life according to the article done by Sarah Zhang, “The “quickening,” the first time a woman felt her baby’s kick, was the moment the baby came alive, the moment it got a soul.”(Sarah Zhang). Zhang is a scientific journalist that has written for many respected news sources. The concept of ‘the quickening’ has changed through time as science has changed and our society has changed. The ethical decisions behind this are still the same. Women become mothers when they choose, people can not be force upon a woman into motherhood. All people value life and at

In “10 Reasons Why Abortion is Evil & Not a “Pro-Choice”, an American Society for Defense of Tradition, Family and Property student (TFP) states that there are many reasons why someone should disagree with the idea of “Pro-Choice.” Pro-choice is generally referred to as someone having the choice whether or not to get an abortion. Abortion is defined as the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy. While the author of this article gave some compelling arguments, I have to disagree with their opinions. After reading multiple statements from male and female doctors, scientists, and politicians, on both sides of this controversial debate, I have gathered a substantial amount of information to back up my pro-choice views. I personally do not have any experience with this issue, but I still feel strongly about it, and here are some of my main points.

Also supporters certainly agree that a pregnant woman has the right to life – especially where not aborting the foetus would put the mother's life or health in danger, she has the moral right to abort the foetus.

The right to life of the fetus is addressed with the argument that the fetus has the same equal right to life that all people do (Jones, 2007). An extension of this argument is that society has the moral duty to protect the fetus because it is incapable of protecting itself. Another argument indicates that the fetus is only a potential life since it depends on the mother for existence. This means some consider the mother to be a fully formed life and have a higher value than the fetus (Jones, 2007). Others argue that the fetus is a life that should be valued from the moment of conception because it is part of the “human community” and has intrinsic value (Nobis, 2011).

Abortion is not only a woman's right, it is a woman's choice. Allowing abortion to e legal is immoral. A pre-born child is given the status of a product of pregnancy and never seen as the miracle only a woman can create. Compassion for the small one is drowned out under a demand for rights, but what about the rights for the unborn.

Abortion is a highly contested topic among numerous individuals. Different groups of people take different approaches on their stance. Individuals decide what they think or feel is right, government officials decide whether it should be legal and how laws should work for all people, while philosophers try to decipher if it is moral or not. Philosophers have tried many approaches to figuring out this problem. Mary Anne Warren takes a progressive approach unlike Don Marquis, who has an incredibly reserved approach. The opposition in these two articles brings about a wide scope in arguments.