Abortion - Right to Life, Right to Voice
Right to Life, Right to Voice
For decades the idea of abortion is one of the most important ethical issues ever concerned in United States. Should abortion be allowed in the United States? If so under what circumstances the practice should be allowed? Abortion which is the deliberate termination of a pregnancy has been one of the most intensely debated matters in the United States for more than a century. Therefore, this paper will examine all the interpretation of the issue. It will explore the history of abortion, the reality and moral rights made by both parties that argue the issue. This paper will also explain political positions taken on abortion and examined those affected by it.
Abortion is a process that has been practiced since ancient times. The first recorded of abortion dates back to 2600 B.C. according to Werner Haas in the article History of Abortion. In the United States abortion dates back to the early 1800’s it was a means of controlling the population. According to Judy Norsigian practice of abortion was outlawed in the United States in 1880. However, about 2 million abortions in a year were illegally performed after it was outlawed. Although the number of death induced by illegal abortions is not exactly known scholars state that “approximately five thousand women died annually in the U.S. because of unsafe abortions and several hundred thousand women a year were treated for health complications due to botched, unsanitary.” In a contemporary society abortion still remains as a big issue because as many may perhaps argue that abortion violates the dignity of the human person. It takes away the innate right of all human, the right to live, and is consider murder. Many debate that a child is a person, not a choice. The mother should not be given the option to kill a baby because the mother does not want it. A quote by Mother Teresa reads, "It is poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish." Almost every
For decades the idea of abortion is one of the most important ethical issues ever concerned in United States. Should abortion be allowed in the United States? If so under what circumstances the practice should be allowed? Abortion which is the deliberate termination of a pregnancy has been one of the most intensely debated matters in the United States for more than a century. Therefore, this paper will examine all the interpretation of the issue. It will explore the history of abortion, the reality and moral rights made by both parties that argue the issue. This paper will also explain political positions taken on abortion and examined those affected by it.
Abortion is a process that has been practiced since ancient times. The first recorded of abortion dates back to 2600 B.C. according to Werner Haas in the article History of Abortion. In the United States abortion dates back to the early 1800’s it was a means of controlling the population. According to Judy Norsigian practice of abortion was outlawed in the United States in 1880. However, about 2 million abortions in a year were illegally performed after it was outlawed. Although the number of death induced by illegal abortions is not exactly known scholars state that “approximately five thousand women died annually in the U.S. because of unsafe abortions and several hundred thousand women a year were treated for health complications due to botched, unsanitary.” In a contemporary society abortion still remains as a big issue because as many may perhaps argue that abortion violates the dignity of the human person. It takes away the innate right of all human, the right to live, and is consider murder. Many debate that a child is a person, not a choice. The mother should not be given the option to kill a baby because the mother does not want it. A quote by Mother Teresa reads, "It is poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish." Almost every
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