Autonomy And Abortion Essay

The principle of autonomy is the ability to make one’s own decision and act on the decision freely and independently. It is also called self- determination because one makes a decision based on his/her allegiances (Purtilo & Doherty, 2011, P. 86). Since the autonomy focuses on making a decision freely and independently, it guarantee a person right to harm to oneself and others. For instance, In many Asian countries, most of family and parents prefer to have male child and when they know that they have female fetus, they decide to do abortion, legally and according to the principle of autonomy, they have right to make a decision for abortion but killing innocent fetus simply due to her gender is violence and harmful act, and it also harms the