Kantian View On Abortion

Abortion, a medical procedure that is the process that is done to terminate a fetus life. This is a universally controversial topic that majority of people have different opinions about whether its ethical or not. The main way that people can find out more information to formulate an opinion, is from these few philosophers named Judith Thompson, Immanuel Kant and Don Marquis. These philosophers share different viewpoints, Thompson believes abortion is morally permissible, but only in certain cases. What cases are these? Kant’s perspective believes that no human should be killed, no matter what the circumstances. Kant would argue not permissible. How would a Kantian argue abortion impermissible? Don Marquis raises the question how could a Kantian argue the abortion is permissible, if they believe that killing is morally
A person who believes in Kant’s theory would argue that abortion is impermissible, because it’s not the right thing to do. Kant believes no matter the circumstances that happened to cause the pregnancy, it still wrong to kill a person. For example, if a women were to get pregnant from rape, or she can’t afford to raise a child, its morally wrong to terminate the fetus. Kant also follows the formula of the universalizability test, the universal law states that the “actions must apply to everyone and always result in good.” (McKnight). For example, with the topic of abortion, if every woman that were to get pregnant resulted to an abortion than humans would be an extinct race. Since abortion doesn’t follow the universalizability test and the action of killing is wrong no matter the circumstance, then abortion is immoral and not permissible by the Kantian