The Pros And Cons Of Abortion

Woman have many reasons for seeking an abortion.Their are a few abortions cases that introduce special factors. For instance when the fetus has been found dead there is no reason to carry it full term. Another example would be when the embryo is diagnosed as having a severe disorder or genetic defect. In the case of multiple pregnancy, some if not all the the fetuses will end up with various long term health problems; some may not survive at all. The woman may elect to go through a selective reduction procedure, which involves the killing of one or more fetuses in order to give the remaining fetuses a better chance to be born healthy. In view of situations where the prenagancy resulted from rape or incest I dont fell a woman should have to bare a child conceived in violence unless it’s by her choice.

Since the creation of abortion it has been used widespread but it has caused some controversy between groups with different views of this topic. I decided to write about this issue because it has been more on the news lately and it’s very controversial, and it should be talked about not only in the news but with family members as well. When it comes to Utilitarianism, is what I recall, concerned only with pleasure and with pain. Therefore we shall be concerned with the amounts of pleasure and pain in situations where abortion is permitted as contrasted with the amounts of pleasure and pain where abortion is forbidden.

Many states are restricting abortions based on survivability of the fetus; however, this is left to interpretation. Survivability is not scientific and concrete. For instance, in 2012 a couple of medical ethicists argued a baby outside the womb is no different than in the womb. The newborn baby is dependent on a caregiver for survival (Weikart). The pro-life community has used this argument to defend the anti-abortion stance. The fact it can be argued also, means there is room for agreement. So, how can the agreement be resolved and allow the standard to be set and stop much of the argument? Obviously the radicals on either side will still argue, but the vast majority of the population would be able to agree if the law could be justified by an accepted definition based on scientific proof.

Whether or not an abortion should be legal has been argued for years. It has become political and even personal at times. People discuss morality and parent rights, but do they ever truly consider the rights of the unborn? Everybody has his opinion on abortions. Some people think they are wrong and some people don’t find anything wrong with them. Abortion is wrong and should be banned.

A forty-year old woman named Alyson Draper, from Midway, Utah had to make the most difficult decision in her life when she decided to have an abortion after 22 weeks into her pregnancy. This might seem crazy to people for a women to even consider getting one and ending what they believe is a person's life. After hearing the reason she got this abortion a lot of people might think different, Draper was on her way into being a mother of eight when she found out she was pregnant with twins. Unfortunately the worst happen when she found out that one of them had passed away while still in the womb and the other had severe spina bilfida and would only survive a couple days outside the womb on life support in a great deal of pain. In addition to the babies her own life was in jeopardy if she went along in having these babies so that's when Draper and her husband had to make the difficult decision to have the abortion to save Draper's life so she can be there for the six children she already has. “I had always been firmly in the category that I would die before I would abort a baby or a fetus, that was something I never saw doing, and I was disapproving of women who did so,” she said. “But afterward, I thought how unethical it is to judge another woman for doing that, because you never know what the circumstances are (Para 14). This is just one of the countless examples of why abortion shouldn’t be morally frowned upon, but I also believe if you are getting an abortion just so you

Abortions have become an epidemic in countries all over the world. It’s something people battle with deciding whether it is right or wrong. Certain individuals believe in Pro Choice and that abortion is a right that all women must have, for various reason such as not having finical, emotional, and relationship stability. On the other hand, there are also many people who believe that women should not have the right to abort a fetus under no circumstances. This view is also like the law in El Salvador. El Salvador has the world’s strictest laws on reproductive rights. The punishment for murder and abortion go hand in hand. El Salvador criminalized abortion 20 years ago and is one out of 5 other countries where abortion is illegal under no circumstance, even in the case of rape, incest or miscarriage. This law has led to the imprisonment of dozen young women. Women who’ve had abortions or those who have experienced a miscarriage can face up to 30 years minimum to 50 years maximum in prison. Recently in El Salvador, a 19-year-old student was sentenced to 30 years in prison after having a baby that was stillborn.

On the 11th of October, in the year of 2017, a 17-year-old crossed the United States border illegally from Central America. She dreamed of one day being a nurse and, someday, caring for senior citizens. Her lawyers say that having a baby was not part of her plans. She was detained at the U.S.- Mexico border and after a medical examination, she was told she was pregnant. Texas law requires a minor to get parental consent or a judicial waiver to get an abortion. She obtained the waiver and then tried to schedule an abortion, but the Trump administration declined her. Under the Obama administration, pregnant girls in these shelters who sought abortions were allowed to obtain them. That policy has changed under the Trump administration. The acting director of the refugee agency emailed staff to refrain from “any action that facilitates” abortion access without the “direction and approval” of the agency’s director. The government, through means of court documents, forced her to visit a religiously affiliated crisis pregnancy center where they tried to talk her into following through with her pregnancy. After an appeals court ruled in her favor, the teenager left the federally-funded Texas shelter (where she had been kept under close watch) and terminated her pregnancy.

Most people like to say that they are the product of their environment. I observe different individuals that are facing life in prison or who have dropped out of school to pursue a life a crime. The part about this situation that baffles me is how 80% of these people will bring up how rough their childhood was. The plethora of children who grow up without guidance is something that is more common than children growing up with guidance. The environment in which the child is in can have a colossal impact on his or her well-being. The parents could be living with their parents who are not supportive of the pregnancy. If the parents are dependents and they are forced to choose between their child and having a place to stay, many people would choose a place to stay. The stress of not knowing where to go while expecting a child is too much for parents to bear. The option of abortion is a calculated decision that takes 10 minutes and is the safest procedure that a person can get. According to the Planned Parenthood organization, "Overall, three 3 in 10 women in the U.S. will have an abortion by the time they're 45 years old." With the procedure being safe, parents might opt for an abortion so that they can get their lives together to be able to have what the child might need. Many women don’t even know that they are pregnant. “Cryptic Pregnancy” is the term that is associated with cases where a woman doesn’t know that she is pregnant until she is around five months along. According

Doctors take an oath called the Hippocratic Oath in which it states “I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan; and similarly I will not give a woman a pessary to cause an abortion”. In the oath, it also states that the doctor will do no harm, but that's exactly what they are doing. Considering the whole worldwide ethics and values, murder is a crime. If murder is a crime, why is abortion not considered murder by many? A pessary is a medical device inserted into the vagina, it is used either to provide support or as a method for delivering. However, there are doctors who are maybe not using a pessary but they are doing surgical procedures to have a woman go through an abortion. They are harming a fetus that can soon be just like us. To end an innocent unborn child's life using horrific procedures is not only unethical for the doctors to perform, but is morally wrong as well.

The controversial issue between pro-choice and pro-life did not begin until the nineteenth century when states began making abortion illegal due to doctors seeing it as morally wrong and unsafe. Unlike the twenty-first century, you were lucky if you even found one hospital in a town and very little was known about antibiotics. Therefore, medicine was hardly given, and physicians had very little advanced knowledge in their practice. According to the National Abortion Federation, some physicians wanted to keep amateurish midwives, pharmacists, etc. from challenging them by setting private rights to conduct their profession. This led to termination laws, then pregnant women illegally committing an abortion, which caused either great suffering or death.

With the development of medicine technology, abortion already became a very common surgery. It can help a lot of people. However, there are also many controversial social problems come behind. I often saw some news reported that some underage girls were pregnant or became mother. Of course, there are also many underage girls chose to have an abortion. However, these underage girls are too young to make all decisions themselves, and minors have guardians to take care of their life and make some important decisions for them. The guardians are usually their parents. Thus, a problem arises. Should underage girls have an abortion with a parental permission? I think they need.

My rogerian argument is about abortion.I feel strongly about this subject due to the fact that i went through it personally and will like to show both views of the pros and cons of it. Most teens and young adults have probably experienced this and i think it is important to show both sides.

Weather abortion is okay or not, every woman deserves a chance to decide what’s best for themselves. Some people like Don Marquis, author of “An Argument that Abortion is Wrong” believe that abortion, except in rare circumstances is wrong no matter what (Marquis pg 141). Feminist believe that women should be treated equal, have equal pay, be respected and empowered (Bryan Par 3). Feminist ethics isn’t a single theory (Landau pg 275). It is a family of ethics that build on the belief that women’s interest and reasoning has been undervalued and that women deserve equal consideration (Landau pg 275).

For the people that are agent abortion would agree that is okay for a woman to have abortion base only on the grounds of if they were rape. “It would leave out entirely the unborn person whose existence is due to rape. Pending the availability or some further argument, then, we would be left with the conclusion that unborn person whose existence is due to rape has no right to the use of their mother’s bodies, and thus that aborting them is not depriving them of anything they have a right to and hence is not unjust killing.” This show that a fetus does not have rights to the mother’s body. I can agree with them on that part because it would be absolutely wrong for a woman to have a child for a person that heart them. For the other fetus they have a right to leave then those that came from a woman that was raped. I believe that there are still going to be cases that are going to be shamed. Thomson gave an example of what completely can happen to women. Which is that a woman is trying to have the baby but if she keeps the fetus it will kill her. The option of abortion is brought up in order to help save the women life. The group of people that are completely agent it would say it’s a right of life to try to have the child still and if it takes the mother life then that was the path she was supposed to have. But Thomson is arguing that if you are giving a chose to save your life and the doctors are telling you that the baby is going to kill you. You will choose the option to

Abortion is when a pregnancy gets terminated so that it doesn’t result in the birth of a child. Surgical and medical abortions are two legal ways women terminate unwanted pregnancies; you’re given the option to take the pill or have the fetus surgically removed. Abortion is recognized as a constitutional right; there should be no objection to a woman who wants to abort her unborn child. That individual shouldn’t be forced to keep a baby she doesn’t want. If we live in a free country, we as women ought to be authorized to make our own decisions concerning our bodies. Without the legalization of abortions, women would use illegitimate methods to terminate their pregnancy; which can endanger their lives and can cause difficulties within their uterus. Women should be entitled to make a choice as to what they feel is best for their bodies. Every woman has the undeniable right to do as they please with their bodies, it belongs to them. Abortion gives women the option to lessen the unborn child’s suffering, not every pregnancy is going to be easy. There are women who endure complications throughout their pregnancy; some fetuses have disorders, these disorders can possibly cause the child to live an unmanageable painful life.