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Is Abortion Morally Wrong

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Is Abortion Morally Wrong?
Our world today is full of unsolved, divisive and controversial issues. Most of them relate to our morals, ethics, and religion, thus creating a very strong, “good” and “bad” side. One of the most controversial moral problems would be abortion and whether or not it should be banned. Similar to the Chinese Yin and Yang sign, abortion has a very prominent black and white side but also contains traces of each in the alternating colour. This shows that if you were to come to any kind of conclusion on abortion, there would still be a downside to it, and that is primarily why the world cannot agree if this sensitive and emotional issue should be prohibited. I do not believe abortion is morally wrong. It is a woman’s personal …show more content…

This approach focuses more on the interconnectedness of humanity and places a moral significance on our relationships as 'care-givers' and 'care-receivers.' These relations shape the care agent’s self-conception – she defines herself in terms of the relationships in which she is engaged; they also shape her perception of the world, serving as a lens through which she sees and understands the events of her life. This relationship focus gives rise to the moral orientation of care and motivates the care agent to strive to be the kind of person who fosters caring relations by the way in which she encounters and interacts with others. She tries to realize the fundamental moral commitments of care by avoiding harm, responding to needs or vulnerabilities, and maintaining caring relations – in her exchanges with others. However, the range of caring obligation is limited and delimited by relation. It is strongest towards others who are capable of mutual relationship. Nel Noddings speculated that it is impossible to care-for everyone and maintained that while the one-caring has an obligation to care-for immediate humans and animals to an extent when they are needy and able to respond to the offerings of care, there is a lesser obligation to care for distant others if there is no hope that care will be completed or …show more content…

She defines abortion as, “a pregnant woman's decision to end her relationship with her unborn child.” Abortion, according to Noddings, is too often interpreted as a conflict between a fetus's right to life and a woman's right to bodily integrity. All attempts to stop the problem of abortion through appeals such as protests at abortion clinics or government interference are ultimately doomed and unnecessary, says Noddings, because they are no help to a woman who must decide whether or not to have her baby. Rather than approach abortion armed with the language of rights, Noddings suggests that we should approach abortion with the language of relations. “I am permitted to abort my child,” says Noddings, “ not because my child lacks rights, but because she cannot respond to my caring in a way that I value.” Noddings states that there is simply no relationship when a woman is merely pregnant, especially in the first trimester. Without a relationship of care, there is no responsibility to care. She points out, “Until an unborn child is developed enough to respond to my caring, I bear no ethical responsibility for her.” This is why, Noddings claims, "We do not hold funerals for lost embryos." As a matter of fact, she says most abortions occur precisely because the woman does not want a person to exist who will have a "response-based claim" on her. Choosing an abortion, according to Noddings, is choosing to end a

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