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What Is Mark Goldblatt's Argument That Abortion Is Murder

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According to the Centers for Disease Control and the Alan Guttmacher Institute, 89-92% of abortions occur during the first trimester, prior to the sixteenth week of gestation. Majority of these surveyed women claimed that they were aborting their child because they simply weren’t ready to raise a child, and the second most common reason was that they didn’t have the financial means to have a child; which one way or another is synonymous to not being ready. Donald Trump (Pro-Life advocate) argues that there has been an ongoing issue with abortion that needs to be dealt with. Upon the questioning of what should happen to a woman who wishes to abort her baby, but doesn’t meet the “three exceptions”, Trump stated that she should face, “…some form …show more content…

This argument encompasses the idea that abortion is murder, thereby acknowledging a fetus as a person with constitutional rights as a separate individual from his/her mother or as he puts it, “The hidden premise here is that the unborn life, from its conception, constitutes a legal person. Even among those who profess this, however, few adhere to its literal truth. The equation of abortion with murder logically entails its banning in all circumstances – including to save the mother’s life, or to end a pregnancy resulting from rape or incest.” (“Liberty, Logic & Abortion” Pg. 17). The reasoning behind this argument, or at least some individual’s reasoning, is that it is a scientific-fact that a fetus is a human being. However, there is actual scientific evidence that disproves these …show more content…

One word: bullshit. For something to deemed murder(ous), I believe there must be a malevolent motive behind it. I believe one must possess cruel intentions or just be completely disillusioned for their actions to be murder. It’s even seen in nature.
A lot of the time animals will either kill off some of their young or leave them to die as they can’t support so many additional lives on top of their own. Mother bears, canids, primates, many species of rodents and even prairie dogs have all been seen killing off some if not all their offspring for a greater chance of survival.
I believe the fallacy within the argument claiming that a fetus is a human being revolves around the fact that in layman’s terms… we are animals. I think a lot of people forget that. In our most basic sense, when you strop away society, and our level of consciousness…we are animals. That’s saying a fetus in the womb only becomes a ‘human being’ upon stepping foot into this world and ‘signing with their feet’ as some call it. In other words, one needs to consent to the constitution of the given regime they reside in prior to becoming a human being. In the words of Bill Nye, with the logicality of the fetus being a human argument, then is every egg that is fertilized a human being? If so, should the mother/father of the eggs that don’t become a born child be penalized? This argument has many problems within

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