In her article entitled “Abortion is Not a Sin”‚ Poppy Dixon makes the claim that abortion is not a sin because the Bible does not label it as a sin. In fact‚ Dixon boldly states that those who regard abortion as sinful are committing the sins of idolatry and blasphemy. This controversial statement stirs up a very heated argument. As a Christian‚ I strongly disagree with this statement. The idea of abortion not being a sin is totally unbiblical. Dixon‚ takes scriptures and twists them to justify
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The Morality of Abortion On the question of abortion being moral‚ the answer is clearly that terminating a fetus’ life under certain circumstances is not only moral‚ but it is also our responsibility to terminate it if the quality of life is in question for the fetus. A second major reason is that to declare abortion immoral would mean that we would have to consider the factor of how the conception came about. This cannot and should not be done. Quality is a major factor in the question
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Abortion Morality Abortion has been a highly debatable topic for many years due to individual views on the moral aspects of life and death and who ultimately has the right to choose. The debatable highlights of abortion vary greatly over a woman’s right of choice over her body‚ countries whose citizens use it to choose sex of the child or population control due to government limitations‚ religious and political opposition‚ when the embryo is “human”‚ and the right to terminate at any stage
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Course Assignment #3 Sow 301 Human Behaviors and Social Environment Abortion Law Assignment Sept. 5. 2012 Now in North Carolina‚ there are stricter restrictions on how and when women can get abortions. According to the Harold Sun. women will have to wait 24 hours before an abortion. Based on this similar law and impacts in other states‚ the restrictions would cut more than 27‚000 abortions and result in about 2‚900 additional births per year according to the fiscal
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Ethical Theories 1 Explain Marquis’s presentation of the "typical" anti-abortion argument. 1. Fetuses are living and human. 2. Humans have the right to live. 3. Fetuses have a right to life. 4. Women have a right to control their bodies. 5. The right to life is morally more important than the right to control one’s body. 6. Abortion places the right to control one’s body over the right to life. Abortion is wrong. Then explain his presentation of the "typical" pro-life argument
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Brown PHILL 111 Lisa McLeod 10/31/2011 The Abortion Debate The permissibility of abortion is a highly debated ethical dilemma. There have been many valid arguments for both sides. Don Marquis is an author who presented his view on the topic in his article titled “Why Abortion is immoral”. An equally convincing paper has also been written by author Judith Jarvis Thomson debating the other side of the argument. Her work is titled “A Defense of Abortion”. Both of these papers attempt to use logical
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I think that abortion is a safe medical procedure. The reason is that the vast majority of women - 88% - who have an abortion do so in their first trimester. Medical abortions have less than 0.5% risk of serious complications and do not affect a woman’s health or future ability to become pregnant or give birth. Another reason is that teenagers who become mothers have grim prospects for the future. They are much more likely to leave of school; receive inadequate prenatal care; rely on public assistance
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Was she happy‚ sad‚ angry‚ or confused? Now imagine not being born. What does it look like? Not very fun isn’t it. Today in America women all over are considering to murder their child. You might be thinking‚ “wow that was harsh”. But it’s true‚ Abortion is MURDER. First there is a pill. A pill that will make you no longer carry a pregnancy. Basically giving you medicine to suffocate your child. Then another pill to empty out the uterus‚ so that there is no trace that a child was even there.
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principles specifically) assist in finding a middle ground on abortion? What is impact of legislation on finding such common ground? Even thousands of years passed‚ there are so many arguments out there about abortion until now. Some thinks that abortion is always morally and ethically wrong. Some thinks that abortion is right when mother of life is at risk. Although people has different beliefs and opinions‚ the main purpose of abortion is to voluntarily terminate the pregnancy. Otherwise‚ it can
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Abortion is a moral dilemma in today’s society there are many that support both sides with good reason; one supporting the life of a newborn‚ the other supporting a woman’s choice to have control over her own life. In this situation a Commanding Officer must face the decision of whether or not he should send a deployed sailor back to the states under “emergency leave” status in order to have an abortion. The Commanding Officer has several things to consider when making this decision that will affect
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