Socrates View On Abortion

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC (Pazol et al., 2015), 699,202 legal induced abortions were reported in 2012. As a controversial social problem, the discussion continues of whether or not abortion should be legal. In Plato’s Republic, Socrates’ ideal city is based on justice, although he legalizes abortion as a way to punish those for bringing an “imperfect” child into his city. As a way to try and resolve the creation of “imperfect” children— those that are illegitimate, unauthorized, and unhallowed—Socrates’ allows men and women, who have passed the age of having children, to be as sexually active as often as they wish, with whomever they wish. Socrates’ presentation of abortion is not accurate and he fails
These factors are prominent regarding the safety of women, as well as his city in such ways that freedom is lacked and therefore could lead to a non-desirable environment. When establishing the legalization of termination of pregnancies, he could have considered opinions of advocacy groups and political forces. According to a journal article in the American Journal of Economics and Sociology, a state’s abortion policy is established by a role in the National Abortion Rights Action League, the percentage of female state legislators, and the percentage of Democratic female legislators. Also, the restrictiveness is based on the population of Roman Catholics (Medoff, 2002). Restrictions on abortion should be based on beliefs of citizens in the state, in which, Socrates’ lacks the acknowledgment of women and bases his decision solely to himself and how he desires his ideal city to
Parenting the child yourself, reaching out to the father of the child, adoption, and foster care are considerable options that Socrates’ fails to consider or even recognize (M, 2011). However, parenting the child and reaching out to the father are not necessarily adequate options within Socrates’ city, as the reason for abortion is due to the conception of a child “illegally” — not within begetting years. Again, Socrates’ fails to respect women in giving them the right to choose their form of healthcare as he prominently makes the conscious decision of enforcing an abortion or the killing of the infant once it is born. These alternatives provided are potential ways to effectively “resolve” or eliminate the reoccurrences of abortion in Socrates’ ideal city, so perhaps they should be discussed and