Abortion And Morality Of Life Essay

An abortion is the medical procedure of destroying an embryo before birth, to prevent having a child. Abortions have caused many issues of controversy to arise, relating to the sanctity of life and the moral and legal status of induced labour. Many women turn to abortion services to abort their child under many different circumstances. These may be due to health, financial, social and personal circumstances ( such as rape, incest and or failure of contraception). In the UK women have the freedom of choice to have an abortion, this is situations of child neglect, child abuse and harassment from people that are unfit or in no position to be parents. As a result abortion has mixed effects on society. For example some people now believe abortion is wrong as it includes the destruction of a foetus. Others believe that under certain circumstances like rape, abortion can tolerated and accepted as the birth of the child may mean psychological trauma for the mother. Others believe that abortion should be accepted as all women have the right to decide for themselves, so if they feel that they don't want to keep the child, then they should have the right to decide whether to keep it.
There are many ethical and moral questions that have been raised as a …show more content…
They believe as the women is an actually person, she has the right to life. Whereas the baby doesn't as it hasn't been born yet. Others believe that the woman should take the risk and carry the baby full term as they baby also has a right to life. They believe that what is meant to happen will happen so the woman should let nature take its course, as she has lived her life whereas the baby hasn't, so she should give it the opportunity to do