The Pro-Life Stance in the American Government
According the Merriam-Webster dictionary pro-life is defined as, “opposed to abortion.” However, through my Catholic education I have learned that being pro-life expands to other topics rather than just abortion, such as human trafficking, genocide, ethnic cleansing, the rise of ISIS, clean water, and euthanasia to name a few. While I may agree on a moral level with the pro-life stance on several of the issues listed above, I would not classify my beliefs as being pro-life. I do not believe that one has to be pro-life, simply a halfway decent human being to understand the unjustness in human trafficking, genocide, and ethnic cleansing. Such crimes are especially heinous. Nor does one have to be pro-life to understand the repercussions of ISIS taking control of the
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Such issues extend to a much grander scale of basic human rights being violated.
However, to what point does the stance of being pro-life violate the rights of the American citizens. The first amendment of the Constitution of the United States clearly states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” The fact that this is in the first amendment of the Constitution illustrates how important the founding fathers of the United States believed the protections of people’s liberties and the separation of church and state to be. As such, religious beliefs relating to any faith have no place in
The National Right to Life Committee, founded in 1968, is this country’s oldest and largest pro-life organization. Their mission is to use education and legislation to protect the most vulnerable of society, the born and unborn children, disabled peoples and elders, from abortions, euthanasia, infant homicide, and assisted suicide. They assert that these acts rob people of the very right outlined in the Declaration of Independence. According to the Declaration of Independence, we are all “endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life...” (Jefferson) and for this reason, their right to life should not be taken away by giving them the option of abortion, euthanasia, etc. It is as though their belief is that
I am pro-life. All the procedures doctors use to perform abortions seem harmful and uncomfortable to both the mother and baby. One method used is Dilation and Evacuation. Basically the mother is given drugs to force a speedy dilation of her uterus, then the doctor takes forceps and inserts them into the woman's womb and begins dismembering the baby by breaking the baby's bones, skull, and spine and then removes the now dead baby (Lloyd 1). That just sounds inhumane for someone to be okay with.
Why should any female be forced to carry a baby she does not want to keep? Abortions have been legalized since 1973 in the “Roe v. Wade” decision. And upholding that was the “Right To Choose” which referred to the pro-choice stance. With the evolving moral standards of society, abortions are becoming more and more justified. Abortions, the practice of removing a fertilized egg from a mother has become a controversial issue in the country, should be allowed because she might not be in the place for a child, could have an unsafe abortion, and may be a rape victim.
“Even though you can’t see them of hear them at all, a person’s a person no matter how small” (Horton Hears a Who). This quote helps describe why abortion is wrong. Pro-life means to support the lives of all innocent humans from birth to natural death. It is important, because anything opposing innocent human life is violating the fifth commandment: you shall not kill.This includes capital punishment, euthanasia, and abortion. There are pro-life groups that oppose these things; they take a stand and do things like educating the public about why abortion is wrong. One of these groups is the American Life League.
One of the biggest controversies currently talked about is abortion. Are you Pro Life (Believe abortion should be illegal) or Pro Choice (Believe the government should not get involved in abortion laws)? My opinion on abortion is that after 20 weeks abortion should be illegal and there should be a limit on how many abortions a person can have.
McDuffie 1 The pro-life movement is an organization that supports all rights to life. When the pro-life movement is mentioned, abortion is usually the first thing that comes to mind. Although abortion is a big focal point for the organization, it is not the only issue they address. The death penalty, assisted suicide, and euthanasia are also addressed within this organization. The people involved believe these actions to be extremely unethical because they are for ?
Pro-life is one side of the highly debated topic of abortion. However, by pro-life being viewed as the “God” side of the argument, abortion has more of a moral and ethical base to the discussion (ProCon). By understanding the views behind pro-life which aid in understanding the views and standpoints such as the role the government plays in how abortion functions in American, the role religious views and values play in how abortion is viewed from a religious standpoint, as well as how abortion is viewed from a medical standpoint, and finally a ethical and social view on the issue.
The topic of aborting an innocent fetus has been overwhelmingly controversial in the United States. The two sides to this ongoing debate is pro-life advocates and pro-choice advocates. Abortion is the ending of a pregnancy by removing a fetus or embryo before it can survive outside the uterus; whether it is an unplanned or unwanted pregnancy. Abortions are most often performed during the first twenty-eight weeks of pregnancy and can be performed as a medical or surgical procedure. Medical abortions include two types of abortion pills; while the surgical procedures include vacuum aspiration and dilation and evacuation. Ultimately, I am one of the many “pro-lifers”, and I strongly agree that abortion should be illegal because it negatively affects our people. Women across the nation are becoming impregnated and following a short amount of judgement time, turn to abortion to solve their problems but in the end hurt themselves with this decision. Abortions should be illegal because it is immoral and unconstitutional, causes severe mental and physical issues, and negatively impacts the economy. “During the ancient Roman times it has been supposed that abortion and the destruction of unwanted children was permissible, but as our civilization has aged, it seems that such acts were no longer acceptable by rational human beings, so that in 1948, Canada along with most other nations in the world signed a declaration of the United Nations promising every human being the right to life”
To be someone who is pro-life you believe that abortion is not an option. To say that someone is "pro-life" is to say that the person believes that the government has an obligation to preserve all human life, regardless of intent, viability, or quality-of-life concerns (Head, 2015). A pro-life person believes that one should not commit murder or abortion regarding the unborn life that is in a woman. I don’t feel that the government should have a
Power is an important force within the world of public policy, as change in power results in a change of perspective and policy. Abortion policy exemplifies the role of power in the policy process; abortion policy has been shifting throughout American history as American views have simultaneously transitioned from more conservative to more liberal. Doctors, specifically regular physicians, have guided the discussion surrounding abortion in the most influential way for the longest time. Their power, in particular, their medical expertise, has allowed them to take hold of the issue and push against abortion from a medical stance. As a result of the change from traditional views to more contemporary ones, the power the doctors held was taken by women, and abortion simultaneously became not an issue of health, but one regarding a woman’s right to choose: pro-life and pro-choice. In America, abortion policy has transitioned from an issue of health and morality to one of women’s rights over time due to the power shifting from doctors to women as a result of modernization and the change in how Americans saw religion; this shift in turn impacting how the abortion issue’s sides are defined and how the issue is argued in the realm of public policy.
Did you know 80% of women abort their kid if they have down syndrome? Abortion is where they end the baby’s life well it is still in the womb. Abortion has been an issue since the 1960’s and continues to grow today. About 1/4 of pregnancies end in abortion and 1/3 of americans before the age of 45 have gotten an abortion. ( (Guttmacher.) Abortion should be illegal considering the reasons for it, ethics and medical effects.
Abortion has been one of the biggest controversies of all time. Many people believe it is 100% wrong and even consider it to be murder. The definition of abortion is; “The termination of pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus or embryo prior to being capable of normal growth.” These pro-life believers do not support the idea of abortion and believe it should be illegal. Many of these supporters do not know that if abortion were illegal they would still be performed, unfortunately by an uneducated staff. Over 70 thousand maternal deaths occur every year because of unsafe abortions. These women die, so the idea of supporting pro-life is contradictory, this is why the nation should be pro-choice.
It is no secret by this point that I am of course a pro-life person. I take this stance because of many reasons. I was born and raised Catholic and as a Catholic, we oppose all forms of abortion procedures whose direct purpose is to destroy an embryo or fetus, since it holds that human life must be protected and respected from the moment of conception. There are two types of Catholics, practicing and non-practicing, in which the practicing Catholics are obviously pro-life and
Pro-choice is for female activists and their beliefs on women taking control of their own body and making their own decisions. The other side of the debate in abortion is pro-life, which is defined as murder, killing an innocent baby which has no say. It has been reported that anti-abortionists relate having an abortion to murdering someone. They believe that a murder is intentional and so is an abortion because you are planning to abort the baby (Currie, 2000,103). Results have shown that people who advocate for Pro-Life primarily are Christian or Catholic members because of the Bible. In the Bible, it does not say directly that abortion is not permitted it makes references to make it clear that God felt very strong about the fact that a fetus or embryo is still considered a human. It suggests that God creates the baby's life well its in the womb and it also says that the same penalty should be giving to someone who causes the death of the child in the womb as to someone who commits murder (Frechet, 2009). As you can see there is two very strong definitive sides to the debate of abortion, both having strong arguments.
The Catholic Church states human life is sacred and holy because it was through God we are given life and from this gift we are held by our commandments to protect our gift of life and the life of others. “God alone is the Lord of life from its beginning until its end: no one can under any circumstance claim for himself the right directly to destroy an innocent human being." [CDF, instruction, Donum vitae, intro. 5] (C.C.C. # 2258) the Church continues and explains that with this ‘gift of life’ we are also endowed with a voice to speak out against those who will willingly destroy ones own life or be a voice for others that do not yet have the ability to speak out for themselves. “For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?” Pro-choice supporters state, “being pro-choice means that you believe that women, not the government, should make their own reproductive health care decisions.” Their platform is based on the women’s freedom to choose what’s best for her body and keeping governmental laws from choosing what’s best and judicious for