Kant's Moral Argument

If something like this happens to anyone outside the womb, it is considered horrible and that person is usually then punished. Kant would argue, what is the difference then? There is absolutely no good will in infecting a fetus like that to kill it. How ironic it is that a nurse who participated in the trying to abort Gianna would then turn around and try to save her after she realized what they had done had in fact not killed her. According to plato.stanfo.edu, in the article, “Kant’s Moral Philosophy”, the author states, “The basic idea, as Kant describes it in the Groundwork, is that what makes a good person good is his possession of a will that is in a certain way “determined” by, or makes its decisions on the basis of, the moral law.”
This theory is one in which Kant uses and argues what would make a society a great and successful society. He explains the categorical imperative to be a moral law all humans have a duty to obey. If someone wants to be morally good, then the choice you make must will or make everyone else act or choose in the same way. If everyone would take this way of thinking into every decision Kant would argue that a society would explode in great success. If one would take this into deciding to have an abortion, the one deciding whether to have an abortion would have to ask themselves could they will or make every single person choose to have an abortion. Of course, though, you cannot will every single person to is able to have an abortion to do so. Author Bill Prat wrote in his article “What would Kant Say About Abortion?” this statement, “It seems to me that a woman who wanted to have an abortion could not will that every other woman also have an abortion when she is pregnant. Why? Because in one generation the human race would go extinct and nobody could have an abortion. To will that all women have abortions would mean that no women could have an abortion after the current generation died off. By Kant’s reasoning, this makes abortion irrational and, therefore, immoral.” This comment made clearly shows that, if someone takes Kant to be correct, then the theory of the categorical imperative proves that deciding to have an abortion would be unreasonable, irrational, and