Is Abortion Morally Wrong

Jonathan Glover, in his article Matters of Life and Death casts dispersions on both pro-abortion and anti-abortion debates citing them as too knee-jerk emotional reactions diminishing the inherent complexity of the other side (1. Glover, CC2006, p. 0110). Glover comprehensively addresses the key points of both sides of the abortion debate and evaluates their inherent virtues, especially for those who hold these opinions, then methodically points out its flaws. Ultimately, Glover comes to the conclusion that though a fetus is a human at the moment of conception, the right to abort lies with the mother and her own self-determination.

I believe abortions are morally permissible. It is a procedure that will occur whether legal or not and I have no moral or legal imperative to prevent a woman from receiving safe medical intervention if she makes that decision. There are no comparable medical procedures where people feel they have a right to prevent a competent adult from exercising their options. Individuals that believe that abortion is immoral have no authority to offer opinions on medical treatment for anyone but themselves. If they are offended by abortion they should not have one.

Abortion is immoral. The statement "a woman has a right to her body" has two weak points. First, unlike her

Throughout this semester, our class has discussed the morality of abortion. We have examined different philosophers’ positions on abortion and debated the pros and cons of each article. For my argument, I defined abortion as the deliberate removal of a fetus from the mother’s womb to result in the death of the fetus. My position on abortion was that it is morally permissible depending on if it’s what the mother wants, the child’s future wellbeing, and the circumstances of the pregnancy. After careful thought and consideration, I have changed some parts of my argument and kept others the same.

When it comes to abortion one can not state that there is simply a conflict between a woman’s right to privacy/autonomy of her body (i.e. the right to choose) and the right to life (particularly the right of the fetus to be born). It is also not adequate to claim that the alternating theories of when life is created is at the core of the conflict over abortion, because the definition of the creation of life does not determine when and why the state will protect the right of the life of the fetus. The overlying issue is a combination of both claims. By carefully analyzing the moral and empirical claims surrounding the abortion issue, we believe that the best position for our candidate is one of pro-choice

Abortion divides many Americans, it is one of the many controversial issue in today’s society. There are two major viewpoints that receive the most attention. One point of view is pro-life which is the belief women should not abort a human life. On the other side, is pro-choice which is the belief women may decide whether to carry a baby to full term or abort it. Abortion is known as the act of removing a human embryo or fetus from the uterus of a pregnant woman prior to the completion of the full term of pregnancy. There are very strong opinions for and against this issue, but no one can deny the vast gray area of abortion. Not everyone falls into the specific camp of pro-life or pro-choice. Many Americans find a comfort level in the gray area where there are restrictions, but abortion is not illegal. 1 A person’s stance on the situation is often determined by how they view the fetus: a part of the mother’s body or as a human being.

People who side with the pro-life argument believe that abortion is wrong and immoral in most, if not all situations. There are arguments made that just as people have fought for their own rights such as women’s suffrage we must also fight for the rights of unborn babies BEATY, K. (2014). Most of these people argue that we shouldn’t be in the position to play god and end a life based on our own needs

The moral permissibility of abortion other than if necessary to save the life of the mother does not depend on whether the fetus is a person. This essay examines the argument to why abortion is morally permissible and defends this notion using three central impressions, to which the essay is organized by the following: first, abortion does not depend on whether the fetus is a person, because the fetus is not a person. Second, the moral permissibility of abortion cannot be exclusively contingent in defining a fetus as a person since this concept is not conclusive enough for finding a solution. Third, the permissibility of abortion depends mostly on the mother’s agency to keep the fetus alive. And lastly, I include major objections against the permissibility of abortion and relevant counterarguments that go against them.

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

Abortion is a tough topic in which you can only decide to be either for or against it. There is a huge amount of people who believe that abortion should be legal and that everyone should respect that decision; however, there is also people who are against this ideology and believe that abortion is something immoral and should be illegal. People, who is pro-abortion, prefer to say that they are pro-choice. They like better this term because they say that they aren’t fighting for abortions, instead, they are supporting woman’s right. This means that they are pro-choice to fight for equality in woman’s rights and not because they like to abort. The same happens with people that are against abortions, many people prefer to be pro-life. A pro-life person is someone who favors life and is against abortion an any other methods of killing people.

still stick to the barbaric belief that abortion is wrong. Yes, you have the right to believe it is

Abortion is morally wrong for many reasons and should be illegal. What is so unethical about it, doesn’t a woman have the right to do what she wants with her body? Yes she does. However, if it is at the cost of another human life it is unjust and wrong. In addition, the mother is not the only one effected by the murdering of the child, imagine all of the lives the child could have touched and changed. Lastly, life is good and killing is wrong. So how could killing an innocent child be perceived as “okay” or acceptable? It just doesn’t make sense, but somehow, the US refuses to outlaw abortion. Jackson from the federalist reported a horrific story. A Colorado woman, who was seven months pregnant, was attacked and left for dead. Her unborn daughter

Abortion is equivalent to the murder of a human being. The law states that purposely killing a human being is murder. The fetus is a human being and abortion terminates it, therefore abortion is murder. The United States legalized abortion in 1973. 45 years later and it continues to generate strong emotions as well as moral and legal controversy.

Abortion is a debate that continues day in, day out, year in, year out. We have laws that have been set into place, yet the debate continues. The opposing sides in the debate each strongly believe they are right. The pro-choice supporters see a woman's right to choose as central to the debate. The pro-choice advocates see the life of the baby as the most important concern. Very little middle ground exists on the issue of abortion.

However one may feel about abortion can be based off of many different reasons. One may feel that they are pro-life because they could never see themselves killing an innocent human being without giving it a chance to live their life as an individual while a pro-choice person may believe that aborting their child is alright because they got pregnant by