Cynara Collins
Phil 230
02/04/2018
Abortion is a serious issue that has been going on for years, many people don’t fully understand abortion, and why people choose to do it. Abortion is the ending of pregnancy by removing a fetus or embryo before it can survive outside the uterus. This usually is performed during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy. There are different views on abortion, some agree and some don’t. abortions take place every single day, and yet public opinion remains at a standstill as to whether abortion is ethical or not. philosophers Mary Anne Warren and Don Marquis have different views on the morality of abortion. Warren believes abortion is not immoral and Marquis argues that it is. Pro-choice activists believe that the …show more content…
She then points out five traits to personhood, including consciousness and the ability to feel pain, reasoning; the capacity to solve new and complex problems, self-motivated activity: activity that is relatively independent of either genetic or direct external control, the capacity to communicate, the presence of self-concepts and self-awareness. If a human being does not fulfill any of these traits it’s not a person. A woman should have the right to decide on abortion. Mary Anne would tell the couple that it is okay to get an abortion if they feel like it’s the best thing to do, she would explain that a fetus is not fully a …show more content…
There are different reasons why one might consider abortion. For example, an unwanted pregnancy, such as being raped, unprepared, not financially stable, and so on. Abortion can cause emotion stress especially since Jill feels that life begins at conception. Jake must deal with a baby that’s not his and was created in a horrible way. Dealing with a baby that is truly unwanted will be very emotional and difficult to move on from, that will always cross your mind and Jills and the attack might replay in her head from time to time. Jake, you and your wife must come together to make the choice. what is choice? Choice is the right, power, or opportunity to choose. Everybody in society has a choice and these choices have many outcomes. A woman’s right to choose to have an abortion or not, is her fundamental right. If society outlaws abortion, society is interfering with the woman’s right to make decisions related to her own body. I personally agree with Mary Anne Warren; a woman should have the right to abortion, it is her body. Only you know what’s best for you. Sometimes, the decision is simple. Other times, it’s complicated. But either way, the decision to have an abortion is personal, and you’re the only one who can make it. a “child” in the womb is a fetus. It hasn’t been born. It’s brain is incapable of comprehending that which surrounds it. It doesn’t understand anything. Although I don’t disagree with Marquis I would like to say depending
Phil 230
02/04/2018
Abortion is a serious issue that has been going on for years, many people don’t fully understand abortion, and why people choose to do it. Abortion is the ending of pregnancy by removing a fetus or embryo before it can survive outside the uterus. This usually is performed during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy. There are different views on abortion, some agree and some don’t. abortions take place every single day, and yet public opinion remains at a standstill as to whether abortion is ethical or not. philosophers Mary Anne Warren and Don Marquis have different views on the morality of abortion. Warren believes abortion is not immoral and Marquis argues that it is. Pro-choice activists believe that the …show more content…
She then points out five traits to personhood, including consciousness and the ability to feel pain, reasoning; the capacity to solve new and complex problems, self-motivated activity: activity that is relatively independent of either genetic or direct external control, the capacity to communicate, the presence of self-concepts and self-awareness. If a human being does not fulfill any of these traits it’s not a person. A woman should have the right to decide on abortion. Mary Anne would tell the couple that it is okay to get an abortion if they feel like it’s the best thing to do, she would explain that a fetus is not fully a …show more content…
There are different reasons why one might consider abortion. For example, an unwanted pregnancy, such as being raped, unprepared, not financially stable, and so on. Abortion can cause emotion stress especially since Jill feels that life begins at conception. Jake must deal with a baby that’s not his and was created in a horrible way. Dealing with a baby that is truly unwanted will be very emotional and difficult to move on from, that will always cross your mind and Jills and the attack might replay in her head from time to time. Jake, you and your wife must come together to make the choice. what is choice? Choice is the right, power, or opportunity to choose. Everybody in society has a choice and these choices have many outcomes. A woman’s right to choose to have an abortion or not, is her fundamental right. If society outlaws abortion, society is interfering with the woman’s right to make decisions related to her own body. I personally agree with Mary Anne Warren; a woman should have the right to abortion, it is her body. Only you know what’s best for you. Sometimes, the decision is simple. Other times, it’s complicated. But either way, the decision to have an abortion is personal, and you’re the only one who can make it. a “child” in the womb is a fetus. It hasn’t been born. It’s brain is incapable of comprehending that which surrounds it. It doesn’t understand anything. Although I don’t disagree with Marquis I would like to say depending