Why Is Abortion Wrong

This statement is a fairly strong one however when one looks up the Oxford dictionary for both words, are they related? Abortion is the deliberate termination of a pregnancy and murder is the intentional killing of a human life whether an adult or a child. If the child is in the womb for seven months (the later development stage) or 2 to 3 weeks (the early development stage) it is still murder making the statement ‘Abortion is murder’ true. There are however, many arguments put forward in relation to what stage a foetus is consider alive or not.
The religious person would put forward the argument that from time of conception the foetus is alive and therefore it is wrong to take that life – ‘thou shall not kill’, being one of the Ten Commandments. According to the religious tolerance organisation, most beliefs of religious groups are the same in that they are pro-life but there is a disagreement on when human personhood is attained. Because of the diversity of views, there are two sides in the
Arguments arise about how morally wrong abortion is. A posted ethics guide on the BBC site debates that killing people is wrong and human life begins at conception therefore the foetus is an innocent human being and killing this foetus is wrong which makes abortion wrong. Whereas, people who support abortion argues that the foetus is not necessarily a ‘person’ with the right to live basing it in relation to a collection of human cells does not have the right to live just because it is of the human species otherwise amputating of a limb is a murder. Another argument is that a pregnant woman has moral rights too which includes the right to ownership of her own body; the right to decide her own future; the right to make decisions without moral or legal intervention by others and the right to life where not aborting the foetus would put the mother’s life or health in danger giving her the moral right to abort the