Abortion is a procedure performed to end a pregnancy before birth occurs. I will succinctly analyze whether the act of abortion is morally right or wrong. Since the philosophy of ethics is very social and states that we are all moral autonomous agents and are part of a moral community‚ we are defined as ’persons‚’ i.e. ethical individuals that legislate to reason right from wrong and thereby have a responsibility to do so. However‚ there is a fine line between being a ’person’ and being a ’human
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Abortion has been a known practice among women for thousands of years. It has been legal in the United States since the first settlers crossed the ocean centuries ago. There was legislation in the nineteenth century that made abortions legal in some states‚ but ever since the revolutionary Supreme Court case Roe vs. Wade‚ women are given the right to decide to have an abortion or not. In recent years‚ abortions have become a safer way to terminate one’s pregnancy‚ and involve much less risk than
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Abortion is truly a cruel action in this world that we as of right now allow. I know this is an arguable statement‚ but I can say I completely disagree with the predicament. Abortion is the ending of a pregnancy by removing a fetus or embryo before it can survive outside the uterus. In my opinion‚ it doesn’t matter if the baby isn’t born yet he/she is still a living human. Abortion is not only cruel but murder. The life of a human being begins right at the moment of impregnation‚ so abortion is
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Abortion‚ known to make lives easier and support stem cell research‚ masks its true identity of murder with such interests since it justifies the inexistence of a person’s life with those societal pleasures. With that in mind‚ society must demolish masked murder because life‚ the most important aspect. must be maintained to secure future lives. In fact‚ individuals find abortion to exist as murder because an embryo presents a form of human life. As a result‚ they condemn stem cell research that requires
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every year (Abortion Facts). Imagine the reason for this. Many people do not realize that the cause of this is abortion. According to American Heritage’s definition of abortion‚ an abortion is the deliberate termination of a pregnancy‚ usually before the embryo or fetus is capable of independent life. The Catholic Church has long held the view that abortion is not only immoral but also the deliberate killing of life at the moment of conception. The Church is pro-life and teaches abortion is wrong
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Abortion is indeed a big issue in many aspects. What are the real reasons why many women engage in such kind of procedure? Abortion nowadays is being practiced in many countries for some reason: to lessen the population growth‚ to give women the privilege to live without guilt and to prevent teenagers from having their lives ruined by an untimely pregnancy. Abortion can be the solution for the continuous growth of population. Nowadays‚ the issue of overpopulation is very rampant. The population
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Marxism and Abortion A recent article in The Tribune‚ the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Australia‚ expounded upon the Marxist view of abortion‚ adding new understanding to the international debate over the rights of the unborn. “Human Life and Fetal Images‚” an essay by Rebecca Albury‚ appeared in the Australian publication on August 10 of this year. Albury made the following statements about the teachings of Karl Marx and their relationship to the unborn: A Marxist believes that
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ANTI-ABORTION Abortion is the killing of a human being‚ which defies the word of God. The Bible does not draw a distinction between fetuses and babies: the Greek word brephos is used in the Bible to refer to both an unborn child and an infant. By the time a baby is conceived‚ he or she is recognized by God‚ as demonstrated in Jeremiah 1:5: "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee..." The Sixth Commandment of the Bible’s Old
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In the article ‘A Defense of Abortion’ Judith Jarvis Thomson provides an argument that abortion in some cases is morally permissible‚ because all persons have a right to life. Thomson defends the case by the premise that life begins at the moment of conception; therefore a fetus has the right to life. At the same point Thomson argues that women with unplanned pregnancies that occur from acts of rape have the right to decide what happens to their body. Yet Thomson suggests the unborn child’s right
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A major aspect of the debate over abortion concerns the use of terminology. In keeping with Just Facts’ Standards of Credibility‚ this research uses language that is clear and precise. Thus‚ phrases such as "pro-life" and "pro-choice" are replaced by words that articulate specific positions. Perhaps the largest point of contention involving terminology is the label applied to what or who is being aborted. Those who think abortion should be generally illegal often use the terms "unborn child" and
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