Right Vs Right Dilemma Analysis

Several dilemmas have come to light with recent bills. Quite a few have been very controversial in nature. There have been bills proposed over cold beer sales, regulation of abortion, cannabidiol oil (low THC extract), and Sunday liquor sales. The ethical dilemmas caused people to have strong and mixed feelings about each. In the world of public policy and public administration, ethical decisions are not a rare occurrence. This especially true of right versus right decisions. Though it may not seem like right versus right decisions for legislators, because one option does not align with their platform, but for many that are on the outside looking in, they can see how either choice is an ethically correct decision. I haven’t taken any classes
This is a huge right vs. right dilemma because, on one hand, of course people should have control over their body, but people also don’t want that to mean that an unborn child is killed as a result. This is a conflict of individual vs. community (Kidder 2009). The values at stake in this decision depend on the answers to many questions, such as: when does life begin? Does the unborn child have rights to its own life? If so, is it then okay to take away a person’s choice about what happens inside of their body? Are there any exceptions to any of this? The list goes on. In the state of Indiana, abortion is currently legal, but there have been more restrictions put onto it this session, such as the number of weeks into the pregnancy that an abortion can be performed, as well as the protocol that has to be followed before the procedure can be preformed. The bill this session also requires doctors to report post-op complications resulting form abortion. This is certainly an issue where there isn’t any one solution that will please everybody because of the controversy that surrounds it. Many people believe that are religious believe life begins at conception and no matter the reason, an abortion is wrong. Of course, there is is the exact opposite where people believe that life begins once the baby has developed enough to live outside of the mother. There are also other people who take a mixed approach and think it is
This year the bill to reverse that law was passed through the Indiana Senate and House and signed into law. Most of the legislature supported this movement, but there were many constituents that avidly believed that this was an awful idea. As a result, there were some interesting points brought up during session about whether it should be passed. The ethical dilemma that was brought up was that Sunday sales would cause and promote alcoholism vs. public happiness. This could be both individual vs. community and short term vs. long term (Kidder 2009). The individual, could increase their chance of alcohol abuse, but the community wants to be able to get alcohol on any day of the week if they want to, instead of being forced to wait or to cross state borders. It could be short term vs. long term because short term people might be happy with the convenience but long term they could develop an abuse problem. There isn’t really a solution for this because if people are going to be alcoholics, not selling alcohol on one day isn’t going to change that, and an alcohol prohibition didn’t work before and actually caused the opposite intended effect. There could be a test period to see if alcoholism rate goes up or if alcohol sales skyrocket so much that it could be drawn from that people are consuming that much more