For centuries, women have been fighting for rights they should be entitled to the same way men are. From the right to an education, to working, to voting; it’s no surprise some women have to fight for the right to control their uteruses as well. The big debate in America is pro-life vs. pro-choice. To break it down simply, pro-life is anti-abortion, while pro-choice is giving women the right to decide for themselves, so pro-abortion. The controversy is that women would be aborting innocent children and that’s immoral, while the opposing side stands firmly behind the claim that are various reasons why a woman would choice to abort their unborn child, whether it be for financial reasons, a pregnancy by rape, simply because they don’t want the
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From the perspective of most devout Christians, this unborn child is seen as an innocent soul whose life is taken from them before they even get the chance to live it and that this is essentially murder. This view is primarily a religious one, although there are people that may not share the same religious view, but may see it from this light of the spectrum. People who are pro-life may argue that an abortion is against their morals and for that reason it’s wrong. Women who wish to undergo an abortion are most likely not looking at it from a religious or morally right or wrong standpoint, but from negative circumstances that conceiving/pregnancy/motherhood is having on them and the child at that point or in future will. It’s viewed as a right that all women should have. The argument that people who are pro-choice make is that it’s in the end better for the mother and child; would the quality of life be worth living if the mother kept the child? Would it be a life the mother wanted? Technically, there’s no right or wrong answer because the issue at hand is a moral judgment. Abortions are legal in all fifty states, but various states are allowed to limit the accessibility of it; for example, Mississippi has only one clinic in the entire state. Their policy is that they only do abortions where the woman is 16 weeks pregnant and under …show more content…
Is it at conception? Birth? This opinionated question is also what drives the topic of abortion to be one that isn’t so cut and dry. This is an issue of values and what makes it a bit different is that it includes biological fact. Most facilities won’t agree to do an abortion above twenty-four weeks. This is considered the age of viability, or the age where a fetus would be able to survive outside of the womb because their development is substantial enough to be able to survive in an incubator where the environment of a womb can be mimicked (Abortion). So, is a fetus considered alive at twenty-four weeks? Or are they considered alive at an earlier stage? There are states, like Mississippi, that seem to believe that life starts early, hence why they won’t do abortions over sixteen weeks (Head). Most pro-life advocates that life begins at conception while pro-choice supporters believe that human life begins at birth, either way, it’s a concept that has no right or wrong answer, which makes this conflict that much harder to
From the perspective of most devout Christians, this unborn child is seen as an innocent soul whose life is taken from them before they even get the chance to live it and that this is essentially murder. This view is primarily a religious one, although there are people that may not share the same religious view, but may see it from this light of the spectrum. People who are pro-life may argue that an abortion is against their morals and for that reason it’s wrong. Women who wish to undergo an abortion are most likely not looking at it from a religious or morally right or wrong standpoint, but from negative circumstances that conceiving/pregnancy/motherhood is having on them and the child at that point or in future will. It’s viewed as a right that all women should have. The argument that people who are pro-choice make is that it’s in the end better for the mother and child; would the quality of life be worth living if the mother kept the child? Would it be a life the mother wanted? Technically, there’s no right or wrong answer because the issue at hand is a moral judgment. Abortions are legal in all fifty states, but various states are allowed to limit the accessibility of it; for example, Mississippi has only one clinic in the entire state. Their policy is that they only do abortions where the woman is 16 weeks pregnant and under …show more content…
Is it at conception? Birth? This opinionated question is also what drives the topic of abortion to be one that isn’t so cut and dry. This is an issue of values and what makes it a bit different is that it includes biological fact. Most facilities won’t agree to do an abortion above twenty-four weeks. This is considered the age of viability, or the age where a fetus would be able to survive outside of the womb because their development is substantial enough to be able to survive in an incubator where the environment of a womb can be mimicked (Abortion). So, is a fetus considered alive at twenty-four weeks? Or are they considered alive at an earlier stage? There are states, like Mississippi, that seem to believe that life starts early, hence why they won’t do abortions over sixteen weeks (Head). Most pro-life advocates that life begins at conception while pro-choice supporters believe that human life begins at birth, either way, it’s a concept that has no right or wrong answer, which makes this conflict that much harder to