Individuals have always argued on the rights of abortion depending on religious views, financial standing and the moral standing of the fetus. Is abortion morally wrong, or permissible? Many have different thoughts on this topic because there has to be a lot of reasoning on why abortions should or not be done. I don’t really have a side because the way I see it is it all depends on how the pregnancy happened and the standing the parents have for when the baby is born. Many women decide to have an abortion because it will change their lives, example the work they do or even because they’re in school. Would not be able to afford the baby because babies are expensive and need a lot of time and money. One of the biggest reasons is their relationship
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By the sixth and eighth week brain development can be detected. This argument goes into place because a human has a brain that is conscious and so does a fetus that’s six weeks in the womb has the same brain activity going on. The fetus attains a new moral standing. By the fourth month you can feel the fetus move or kick. By the fifth month it is capable of existing apart from the mother where the organs are sufficiently developed and are able to function. Roe vs. Wade came into place where they said abortion could be done the latest by the third trimester. The thing is at the third trimester everything I have listed about the fetus has already come into place. Does the fetus still have the same moral standing as a human? Because by the sixth month things are developed and they can actually be born at that time and become preemies, that’s what’s getting killed. In the method II was explaining if a human being has the same moral status as an animal? Animals don’t have the same brain capacities as we do but babies do. So comes into place the argument of the moral standing. Anencephalic babies come into place because these are babies that are born without a brain. At an early stage doctors can determine if the baby is anencephalic and lets they parents know that these babies don’t live long without a conscious. These babies don’t have the same moral status, only because they’re not fully developed and know they will never be even after birth. In the article, The Moral Status of the Human Embryo: When is a person a person? Dr. Peter Saunders gave some interesting example on his thoughts. He wrote in his writing, “Human embryos are not human beings worthy of respect because they have a high mortality; about 40-70% don’t reach maturity.”(Saunders) No one really knows at what point an embryo can pass away all of a sudden but have a higher risk than a
By the sixth and eighth week brain development can be detected. This argument goes into place because a human has a brain that is conscious and so does a fetus that’s six weeks in the womb has the same brain activity going on. The fetus attains a new moral standing. By the fourth month you can feel the fetus move or kick. By the fifth month it is capable of existing apart from the mother where the organs are sufficiently developed and are able to function. Roe vs. Wade came into place where they said abortion could be done the latest by the third trimester. The thing is at the third trimester everything I have listed about the fetus has already come into place. Does the fetus still have the same moral standing as a human? Because by the sixth month things are developed and they can actually be born at that time and become preemies, that’s what’s getting killed. In the method II was explaining if a human being has the same moral status as an animal? Animals don’t have the same brain capacities as we do but babies do. So comes into place the argument of the moral standing. Anencephalic babies come into place because these are babies that are born without a brain. At an early stage doctors can determine if the baby is anencephalic and lets they parents know that these babies don’t live long without a conscious. These babies don’t have the same moral status, only because they’re not fully developed and know they will never be even after birth. In the article, The Moral Status of the Human Embryo: When is a person a person? Dr. Peter Saunders gave some interesting example on his thoughts. He wrote in his writing, “Human embryos are not human beings worthy of respect because they have a high mortality; about 40-70% don’t reach maturity.”(Saunders) No one really knows at what point an embryo can pass away all of a sudden but have a higher risk than a