A Question of Value
What determines value? Is it only a matter of how profitable or useful something is? It may be tempting to answer yes to that question, but the answer is entirely incorrect. Does a person value her own life? Of course she does. It does not matter if her life appears to be useful or profitable. It does not matter that the force keeping her alive may not be a part of her physical reality. She is alive, her life is valued, and an unborn child is no different. Abortion is murder and should be put to an end now.
Although one may call an unborn child useless, or out of touch with physical reality, it would be a ghastly mistake to say that an unborn child’s life is of no value. This is type of message that abortion is portraying in society. The word abortion means deliberate termination of a human pregnancy. Additionally, the evil of abortion has a negative impact on the quality of the mother’s life thus, diminishing her value as well. It can be said that abortion is a direct insult to the value of the lives of every person in this country. It leads to a culture of people who are twisted on destroying human life. While there are several difficult situations that may lead a mother to consider abortion, the value of human life is not situational; therefore, human abortion must be abolished. Abortion insults the value of life of a child. It has been scientifically proven that life starts at the moment of conception (Shea). There has to be a reason why the
The issue of Abortions has been a controversy for years now. There are two main groups for this problem, Pro-Life, and Pro-Choice. Pro-Life supports the human rights of life should be embraced, by religion and ethics. Pro-choice is when someone wants to make this choice without no remorse of human life, but because someone wants no part of it raising one.
There are numerous ethical issues that can develop in labor and delivery whether this issue influences the mother, baby, or both. In healthcare, it is an obligation for the provider to give ideal care, treatment, and prevent harm to patients while making ethical choices. Here and there, these choices aren 't highly contrasting and providers must outweigh benefits versus harm in order to give the best care possible for mother and baby. One case of an ethical issues that emerges in obstetrics is late abortion in raped victim women.
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 restrictions and the debate that surrounds the issue of abortion has changed dramatically throughout the course of history and it continues to change until this very moment. All around the world and in every known society, women have used abortion to control their reproduction, regardless of it’s legality. Abortion used to be exercised freely in the United Sates, up Until all the states started to ban It and place a lot of restrictions on it. They stated that a woman can not abort except in extreme cases in which the mother’s life might be in danger. After the restrictions caused a lot of health issues and raised concerns on women’s health, The Government abolished all the restrictions. In this paper I will analyze and discuss three main positions on the issue of abortion. First, there are those who associate themselves with the title “pro-life”. These individuals are anti abortion, birth control, embryo research or anything that can control or cause any harm to the fetus. Second, there are those who at the other end of the spectrum who firmly believe that if a woman decides to abort, then it is her constitutional right to do so without any interference from the government. Third, are those who believe that if a woman is raped or her life is in danger, then abortion should be completely and solely up to the woman, but other than that, abortion should be illegal. This group of individuals are also for birth control and do not oppose educating
Overall this article discusses the concerns of women that abort unborn human; Also, whence human harm their body with drugs and food they still demonstrate poor reasonability. In reality, people try to justify abortion because of poverty it's ok to abort a child; however, their methods to prevent conceive a child. Safe-Ed which should include condoms and birth control result to unborn lives matter. If a woman is a rape that is acceptable because taken without permission. Human poisoning themselves with fatty food and deadly drug, which, don't make it any better when women go out and have an abortion.
“Abortion is the spontaneous or artificially induced expulsion of an embryo or fetus” (Abortion, 2002). An artificially induced abortion is the type referred to in the legal context. Abortions happen in different situations. The question comes when is it the right or wrong choice. The root question becomes the moment a fetus becomes a person and entitled to rights. The fetus could be a person at conception, during the pregnancy, or at birth. The deciding moment differs from the Pro-life group and Pro-choice group. After critically analyzing four different arguments about the pros and cons of abortion, one will be able to understand the ethical, moral, and
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
When an abortion happens it can be a good or bad thing in a person’s eyes. Everyone has different perspectives on things, and abortion is one thing the world is always debating about. Abortion is the ending of pregnancy by removing an embryo or fetus before it can survive outside of the uterus. Abortion is legal in all states but in 21 states you need parental consent if you are under 18 years old in order to get an abortion and it has to be within 24-48 hours. These states include Alabama, Idaho, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, Wisconsin, and many more. There is many riots, protests, and hate on abortion and they turn really violent sometimes.
When is it considered, that life starts? Is it a moment of conception, or when the child is delivered? Abortion is a huge ethical problem, in the world we live in today. In 2013, over 660,000 legal abortions were reported to the CDC, that is about 12.5 abortions every 1,000 women. Many Christians, view this as breaking one of The Ten Commandment, which is “Thou shall not Kill.” Abortion has many different views, such as: it is the woman’s choice rather to keep it or not, the fetus is not considered alive until after utero, or its okay if the mothers health is at risk. For example, in my opinion to prolife, show opposite viewers of the situation would be to see/read medical journals, on when the organs are formed, including the beating heart
Abortion has remained an issue that has been one of the utmost controversial subjects amongst people. In my opinion, a woman who is pregnant should appropriately partake in the responsibility to protect the life of a human being that is growing in her womb. Moreover, I feel that abortion is immorally wrong for the reason that it’s a ‘Human Life” that is being killed. Also, getting pregnant is an adult responsibility that
Abortion is always argued with different cases and play a main role in medical ethics (blackwell.,p291).It is evidently reasonable for some to argue that in moral situation, abortion is a murder and it should be illegal, while others may claim that abortion is woman’s right when concerning on autonomy ( The abortion debate in Australia). Opponents of making abortion legal claim that abortion is a kind of murder on extend of moral situation. It is always regarded as a sin to kill a person who is no aggressor in most moral communities (new ethics 1). Fetus is a biologically human as it is not just a part of the mothers, such as a lung or a kidney. On the contrary, it is obvious that fetus is human due to he or she has genetic code of human and human parents as well (abortion myth p5). Moreover, it has potentiality to be a person with primary moral worth (text book p210-211). As Gillion (new ethics) pointed out, every person has his right to life, especially he is not an aggressor. This point is also been pointed by (Rebecca and john,Blackwell p204), “embryos has a right to life” .The fetus is innocent and
Truly no assessment can establish the value of a human life. Comparing how life was valued in the past when society held strong anti-abortion beliefs to how our society now values life will convey the affects abortion has on the value of life. In the 1800’s when the first anti-abortion law was established humans were valued by their contributions to society. The practice described can be seen in an 1896 legal case where a set of parent desired compensation for the neglect of their child by The Southern Railroad Company of Georgia. The parents estimated the child’s value at $2 per day due to labor while, “The judge concluded “that the child was ‘of such tender years as to be unable to have any earning capacity, and hence the defendant could not be held liable in damages. This case displays that practice of valuing life during that time. Due to the advancement of society we no longer measure the value of life based on contribution but rather the price someone is willing to pay to save a life.This measurement is know as Value of Statistical Life (VSL). The Department of Transportation (DOT) asses VSL annually and concluded in 2014 that society was willing to pay 9.2 million dollars to save a life.With this value and the number of abortions reported in 2014 as 926,200 the value of the human population decrease by $8,521,040,000,000 due to
Abortion is a deliberate termination of a human pregnancy, most often performed the first 20 weeks of pregnancy. There are series of legal, moral and ethical issues which may arise about abortion. Most arguments about abortion are often focused on political insinuations and the legal aspect of such actions. Some frequently asked questions’ regarding the issue is if the practice should be outlawed and regarded as murder or should women have the right to practice it. For example, prior to becoming pregnant, some women feel that they would be able to choose the abortion option without trouble. However, even with reasons why having an abortion would be the best option, some women feel that this decision would not be right for them. On the other hand, some women have a strong belief that abortion is unethical prior to becoming pregnant.
Our society is filled with numerous ethical dilemmas. We are consistently bombarded with ethical issues daily. At times, these ethical dilemmas are virtually impossible to unravel. I believe the topic of abortion is one of the most difficult and controversial issues in today’s society. It is also the one people are most passionate about as it continues to be scrutinized by two groups, holding fast to different perspectives; Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice.