Religious And Moral Views On Abortion

There are many common pregnancy alternatives, but most often the resulting decision is abortion because it is effortless. Abortion is endings a women’s pregnancy by removing or forcing a fetus or embryo from the mother’s womb before it is able to survive on its own. Not all abortions are purposely done some are spontaneous like when a women that has a miscarriage. Rather abortion is done purposely or naturally it is a worldwide complication as to it being wrong or right. Abortion is an ethical issue that will be analyzed according to a personal worldview and Christian worldview. Ethical thinking will be examined by value-based decisions that address abortion from the perspective of a Christian worldview and comparing it to a personal assumption by addressing ethical dilemma, core beliefs, resolution, evaluation, and comparison.

Abortion and the morality of it has been a hot topic for years in the United States although it has been carried out for centuries in different cultures. Abortion is a medical procedure deliberately terminating a pregnancy. Abortions usually happen within the first 28 weeks of pregnancy and are considered an outpatient procedure. The first abortion laws were passed by Britain in 1803 and by 1880 most abortions in the U.S. were illegal, except for those that were performed to save the life of a woman. This exception to the rule gives insight into the battle that exists today and the ethical debate of abortion.

The father of the foetus to be aborted has no right to be consulted or

The Teaching of the Roman Catholic Church and Their Influence on People's Views on Abortion

Abortion has been legal in the United Kingdom since the Abortion Act of 1967, which was further amended in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act of 1990, lowering the length of pregnancy in which it is legal to have an abortion from 28 weeks to 24 weeks, owing to advances in medicine and a decrease in the age of viability of a foetus. There are four criteria which allow women to have an abortion, as long as they have the consent of two doctors, involving risk to the physical or mental health of the mother or the foetus or mental health of any existing children. In 2004, 95% of abortions in the UK were certified under the statuary ground of risk of injury to the

The Catholic Church teaches that Abortion is a sin however, the justifications for this belief have gradually adapted and changed over time due to the changing influences and opinions regarding both politics and society. The early teachings of abortion were based upon the belief that only people who engaged in forbidden sexual activity would request or have an abortion, while in more current times, the main justification is that a foetus should be considered a person from the moment of conception and therefore should not be denied the right to life.4 The Catechism of the Catholic Church affirms that, “Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. From the first moment of his existence, a human being must

An ethical dilemma in the healthcare atmosphere would be Abortion. There is a variety of moral and ethical issues that could arise about unexpected pregnancy and abortion. Abortion has been a topic of debate for as long as the practice has existed. The abortion argument states whether it can be morally right to terminate a pregnancy before normal childbirth. Many people believe that abortion is wrong, no matter what the circumstance is. Some people will argue that abortion is right when the mother’s life is at risk. Others consider that there is a range of situations in which abortion is morally acceptable. Abortion has had an impact on society in many ways. “By the nineteenth century many nations passed laws banning abortion. It wasn’t until

Furthermore, from the Christianity view on abortion, it is said to be that bulk of Scholars believe that the soul is placed in the person at the time of fertilization/origin. The Roman Catholic Church for instance, with regards to abortion believes that it’s forbidden, immoral and unscrupulous at any stage of embryonic life after conception/birth. In addition it was said that the Catholic Church explains and demonstrates that the life of humans ought to be protected and respected from the instant of conception. (Emerson, M.O. 1996,) proposed that the Catholic Church tends to oppose easy abortion while the more liberal churches would favor it.

On January 22nd, 1973 the United States Supreme Court affirmed the legality of a woman’s right to have an abortion, in a 7-2 decision. The decision gave women the right to abort during the entirety of a pregnancy and defined different levels of state interest for regulating abortion in the second and third trimesters. (CNN) The United States has long been in dispute about whether abortion should be kept legal or to make abortion illegal. The argument has been between pro-life and pro-choice and which side has better arguments, and if abortion is morally wrong. This problem is important because it has such an impact on American culture, population, and women. Professors, journalists, professionals, and just regular women have been writing about

Some argue that abortion should not be legal despite the negative turmoil banning it would bring, while others argue that abortion should be legal for reason including women’s rights, rape, and illegal abortions. Essentially, in the case of nurses, these things should be thoroughly researched and thought through before deciding to take the job.

The concept of infanticide is one that is largely accepted to be immoral according to western standards. Because of this viewpoint, the objection that Mary Anne Warren’s argument to support the morality of abortion should also be extended to infanticide as well poses a problem. Warren claims that in order to earn the status of personhood you must possess the five characteristics that she enumerates in her article “On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion.” These characteristics include consciousness, reasoning, self- motivated activity, communication, and concept of self. In her argument, she claims that these traits are the only way one can be considered a person and until these traits are acquired, a human being is not considered a person of moral standing. Without moral standing the claim is made that ones rights do not have to be honored. Because fetuses do not have these attributes it ought to be considered moral to abort a fetus. The problem arises when one considers an infant. According to the five traits, infants are also not to be considered a person, and thus it ought to be moral to kill an infant, which is known as infanticide. This is a problem because of the wide-standing viewpoint that the killing of an infant is considered murder, and therefore immoral. This creates a gaping whole in Warren’s argument, and one could argue that it discredits it completely.

Life is tricky. Human beings balance endless obligations, choices and decisions daily that fluctuate from simple to complex and are predicated by individual worldviews. Navigating everyday situations is oftentimes automatic and requires little to no emotional involvement. Inevitably though, a difficult situation involving two conflicting ethical principles will arise, creating an internal divide. These emotionally charged, morally laden quandaries, challenge our convictions of the rightness or wrongness of a decision and the goodness or badness of its consequences. The instinctive black and white stances taken when merely discussing broad moral issues such as abortion, become disorganized and conflicted when private and personal ethical components are introduced. These either/or ethical scenarios do not simply offer obvious choices between right and wrong, but rather pit right versus good, or bad versus even worse within us, pushing our boundaries of reason and testing the congruity of our worldview commitments.

Hi Emma. I think your example for the topic that is discussing ethics and emotional and logical appeals is a great choice. Abortion is a topic that causes a lot of different opinions and point of views. There are plenty of reasons why someone may think abortion is a logical reason, such as a poor finical situation, health hazard, or a physical tragedy. But like you said there is a question whether it makes sense emotionally. When dealing with life it makes things more complicated, many people believe that life starts a conception so having an abortion at any stage in pregnancy is considered murder to some people, which is why it may not make sense emotionally. Another example could be an issue such as torture methods used in war. Logically

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