Pluralism Research Paper

In a world where there are millions of people from various cultures, backgrounds, and religions there is bound to be some disagreement and differing worldviews. In a society like the United States, pluralism is evident throughout the entire country. With so many different worldviews at work, it becomes increasingly more challenging to obtain a straight answer or a single correct answer on topics of moral disagreements such as abortion.
Abortion is one of the biggest moral disagreements because of the issue of whether terminating a pregnancy or human life should be considered moral or immoral. Having the standpoint that abortion is immoral, one would argue that from the moment of conception that fetus is now a living human being. Therefore, if you were to kill the fetus then that would be murder which is both illegal and immoral. The other view would argue that the fetus is not a human being because it cannot survive outside the mother’s body and therefore is not able to sustain itself. It would then be acceptable to have an abortion as the fetus is not a living being, and the health of the mother should be made the priority. …show more content…
Other questions are then raised, such as if an abortion is acceptable following rape or whether abortions shouldn’t be allowed after a certain point is reached during pregnancy. Since the topic of abortion is such a significant and controversial moral issue, having pluralism in a society makes it very challenging to determine whether the process of abortion is moral or immoral. With arguments being made on both extremes, as well as in the gray area, it’s challenging to determine a clear answer when so many different ideas are involved and we cannot prove that one worldview is correct and another is