When it comes to living a ~~ life, people tend to define “good” as whatever brings enjoyment and happiness and “bad” as whatever is burdening or distressing. Therefore, we should seek out the good in life and avoid or remove the bad. In cases of abortion, though, where a life is unwanted and burdensome, is it justified to remove it? After all, a life is viewed as a much higher value than s personal goods. Pro-life arguments opposing abortion say that each child has the right to life, is a human at the moment of conception, and ~~. Pro-choice arguments supporting abortion argue that a child’s life begins at birth, a woman has the right over her body, and abortion promotes autonomy. My primary claim is that any aborting any child that will not
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Since all human share this title, there ought to be something in common with each of us. We cannot say it is the ability to reason, since there are those who are so developmentally disabled or deranged that they cannot be regarded as rational. We cannot say it is physical characteristics, since we also differ in factors such as color, height, and weight. However, if we examine our genetic code, it is evident that regardless of appearance, size, rationality, gender, race, or stage of development, every single human being possesses a unique strand of human DNA. DNA is the blueprint for building a human body, a set of instructions for developing all the organs, cells, and personality that constitutes our “humanness”. We can infer that we all have human DNA in common because our DNA is what enables us to develop into humans the first place; it would be impossible to be alive without it. When a sperm and egg meet, their DNA is combined to create an outcome of a human with human DNA. Therefore, it should be possible to specifically define a “human being” as any member of the Homo sapiens species at any stage of development that contains human DNA. If this has proved that we all have this trait in common that leads to us being humans in the first place, we can also say that deliberately taking the life of any human being is
Since all human share this title, there ought to be something in common with each of us. We cannot say it is the ability to reason, since there are those who are so developmentally disabled or deranged that they cannot be regarded as rational. We cannot say it is physical characteristics, since we also differ in factors such as color, height, and weight. However, if we examine our genetic code, it is evident that regardless of appearance, size, rationality, gender, race, or stage of development, every single human being possesses a unique strand of human DNA. DNA is the blueprint for building a human body, a set of instructions for developing all the organs, cells, and personality that constitutes our “humanness”. We can infer that we all have human DNA in common because our DNA is what enables us to develop into humans the first place; it would be impossible to be alive without it. When a sperm and egg meet, their DNA is combined to create an outcome of a human with human DNA. Therefore, it should be possible to specifically define a “human being” as any member of the Homo sapiens species at any stage of development that contains human DNA. If this has proved that we all have this trait in common that leads to us being humans in the first place, we can also say that deliberately taking the life of any human being is