The Many Sides of Abortion
THE MANY SIDES OF ABORTION
The medical definition of abortion is, " the termination of a pregnancy by loss or destruction of the fetus before birth. It can be either spontaneous or induced, and the latter is an act with many legal and ethical ramifications." Abortion is a very controversial subject and there are many different positions that one could take, none which are either all right or all wrong. Before any one makes a decision as to how they feel on the subject, one should look at the different sides to the issue.
When talking about abortion, there are many different ethical questions involved.
Ethics is what one uses to distinguish what is right from wrong, good from bad, etc. Since people come from different backgrounds, they have a different code of ethics, therefore answering the question of right and wrong can not be easily answered, and who knows if it can ever be answered? There is no correct ethical or moral code for one specific time period, or group of people, so one must decide what they believe on the issue of abortion, by examining there own code of ethics.
I attended Catholic Schools for most of my life, and had Catholic beliefs and ideas rammed down my throat for so long, that for a while I decided what ever The Church believes, I am going to believe the exact opposite. So for many years I believed in abortion, and thought of it as no big deal, and thought that if I was ever placed in a situation that abortion was an option, that I would just go ahead and do it, but now that has changed. I took a morality class my junior year of high school, and one day we watched a movie on abortion, and it had some really graphic pictures of aborted fetuses, and from the moment I saw that I totally changed my views on the subject. After much thought I decided that abortion would be the wrong choice for myself, and though I don't really agree with the principles of the subject, I don't have the right to say whether
The medical definition of abortion is, " the termination of a pregnancy by loss or destruction of the fetus before birth. It can be either spontaneous or induced, and the latter is an act with many legal and ethical ramifications." Abortion is a very controversial subject and there are many different positions that one could take, none which are either all right or all wrong. Before any one makes a decision as to how they feel on the subject, one should look at the different sides to the issue.
When talking about abortion, there are many different ethical questions involved.
Ethics is what one uses to distinguish what is right from wrong, good from bad, etc. Since people come from different backgrounds, they have a different code of ethics, therefore answering the question of right and wrong can not be easily answered, and who knows if it can ever be answered? There is no correct ethical or moral code for one specific time period, or group of people, so one must decide what they believe on the issue of abortion, by examining there own code of ethics.
I attended Catholic Schools for most of my life, and had Catholic beliefs and ideas rammed down my throat for so long, that for a while I decided what ever The Church believes, I am going to believe the exact opposite. So for many years I believed in abortion, and thought of it as no big deal, and thought that if I was ever placed in a situation that abortion was an option, that I would just go ahead and do it, but now that has changed. I took a morality class my junior year of high school, and one day we watched a movie on abortion, and it had some really graphic pictures of aborted fetuses, and from the moment I saw that I totally changed my views on the subject. After much thought I decided that abortion would be the wrong choice for myself, and though I don't really agree with the principles of the subject, I don't have the right to say whether