Abortion: Ethical Principles Of Autonomy In Women

Abortion is one of the maternal-foetal conflict issues that has arisen in today’s society. Liberal views do not provide any moral or legal view concerning foetuses while conservative’s views that a foetus is a human being since it has life (Nocon, 2010). They also believe that life starts at conception. These two views show the conflicting nature of the issue that is at hand in the society. Nevertheless the two extremities acknowledge ethical principles of autonomy in women as well as nonmaleficience towards the fetus. It is important to note that the law has never come close to taking the conservative views. It has always been associated with the liberal view of the society (Garrett et al., 2011).
Abortion has never been the issue of concern in most of the legal decisions that have been made in the courts. Although most of the conservatives view that the law has placed much emphasis
The main notion behind this was that anything that affected the health of the woman affected the health of the baby. This principles still holds water in some pregnant cases. However, in the recent decades sophisticated techniques have come up. They mainly focus on providing adequate treatment to the foetus and not necessarily to the mother (Arch, 2015). Intrauterine therapy and caesarean section are two modern methods that are being utilised to ensure that the health of the foetus is protected. Such procedures have become less risky and in an effort have removed the mother fetus relationship that has always formed the major argument when it comes to issues relating to abortion (Nocon, 2010). Most abortion proponents argue that the relationship between the mother and foetus is the major cause of abortion. Therefore, the rise of such new techniques that nearly eliminate the mother foetus relationship brings a lot of issues in the society especially in matters relating to