The Immortality of Abortion
The Immorality of Abortion
Abortion is one of the most controversial political and social issues in the world. The abortion issue is very complex and involves several aspects of political, religion, medical, and social beliefs and contingencies. At what stage human life begins is one of the main arguments of abortion between the pro-choice advocates and the pro-life advocates. The morality of abortion is even more complex than abortion itself. Abortion is immoral and may be considered as murder.
The legal argument in the abortion issue revolves around whether a fetus is alive at conception or birth and whose rights, the woman's rights or the fetus' rights, are being infringed. Pro-choice advocates argue that a fetus is not alive thus should not have any legal rights, and they argue that the mother's rights would be infringed if abortion was made illegal. Pro-life advocates argue that a fetus is alive at conception and should have equal legal rights to that of the mother, and they argue that the fetus' rights would be infringed if aborted. The moral argument for the right to choose says the fetus is not yet a person, then, of course, the fetus has neither moral standing nor the capacity to have rights that can be infringed. The moral argument for the right to life says the fetus is a person, and if its life is terminated, then the fetus' rights are infringed. What composes abortion's immorality is not just the fetus' rights being infringed, it's the nature of abortion, the procedures of abortion, and the Christian belief that abortion is murder.
Roe v. Wade is the landmark case that lead to the legalization of abortion in 1973 stating that abortion is a constitutional right of the mother. (Smolin, 2001) The National Abortion Right Act League argues that without legal abortion, women would be denied their constitutional right of privacy and liberty. The woman's right to her own body subordinates those of the fetus, and the U.S. Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade argued
Abortion is one of the most controversial political and social issues in the world. The abortion issue is very complex and involves several aspects of political, religion, medical, and social beliefs and contingencies. At what stage human life begins is one of the main arguments of abortion between the pro-choice advocates and the pro-life advocates. The morality of abortion is even more complex than abortion itself. Abortion is immoral and may be considered as murder.
The legal argument in the abortion issue revolves around whether a fetus is alive at conception or birth and whose rights, the woman's rights or the fetus' rights, are being infringed. Pro-choice advocates argue that a fetus is not alive thus should not have any legal rights, and they argue that the mother's rights would be infringed if abortion was made illegal. Pro-life advocates argue that a fetus is alive at conception and should have equal legal rights to that of the mother, and they argue that the fetus' rights would be infringed if aborted. The moral argument for the right to choose says the fetus is not yet a person, then, of course, the fetus has neither moral standing nor the capacity to have rights that can be infringed. The moral argument for the right to life says the fetus is a person, and if its life is terminated, then the fetus' rights are infringed. What composes abortion's immorality is not just the fetus' rights being infringed, it's the nature of abortion, the procedures of abortion, and the Christian belief that abortion is murder.
Roe v. Wade is the landmark case that lead to the legalization of abortion in 1973 stating that abortion is a constitutional right of the mother. (Smolin, 2001) The National Abortion Right Act League argues that without legal abortion, women would be denied their constitutional right of privacy and liberty. The woman's right to her own body subordinates those of the fetus, and the U.S. Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade argued
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