Abortion has always been a controversial topic with frequent heated debates about its use. Chapter 5 covers the arguments being made by opposing sides on the ethicality of abortion. These views are attributed to people’s beliefs about the personhood of a fetus and the variance in beliefs is the reason there has yet to be a consensus on abortion’s ethicality. Some people take a fetus’s ability to develop into a human being as evidence of its personhood, while others mandate that to qualify as a person something must following specific criteria. However, because what qualifies a thing as a person is so subjective, there are no clearly defined standards for personhood. Many people who believe that abortion is ethical don’t see
